Example sentences of "[adj] and [v-ing] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others might be talking to their girlfriends or just idly smoking and looking at the sky . |
| 2 | When he shows a film or summat his room 's like a little cinema — you know , people sitting round watching the telly in the dark , and smoking and laughing at the funny bits and that . |
| 3 | The photograph was brown and curling at the edges . |
| 4 | Robins slightly endeared herself to me by going a little pink and gazing at the ceiling . |
| 5 | He lay on his bunk with his eyes open and staring at the rafter ceiling for all the hours that were common for the men of Hut 2 . |
| 6 | For a long time she imagined she might open the door and see the body of her mother , stretched out in death on her bed , her arms folded across her chest , her eyes still open and staring at the ceiling . |
| 7 | The densely hooded vegetation is soothing and disorientating at the same time . |
| 8 | If he starts being really difficult and kicking at the partitions we sometimes have to put hobbles on him . |
| 9 | He collapsed back on the bed , eyes wide and staring at the white ceiling . |