Example sentences of "[pers pn] [v-ing] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought I might find them laughing at poor Daddy , ’ Rose said , allowing her own shock and fear to ease out in the nervous laughter , but Maggie 's face remained pale and serious . |
| 2 | Am I looking at this file at all anxiously ? |
| 3 | Changez and Jamila sat apart , and although I tried to catch them looking at each other , I can guarantee that not a single surreptitious glance was exchanged by the future bed-mates . |
| 4 | I could imagine them looking at each other . |
| 5 | Where are you appearing at this week ? |
| 6 | ‘ Where are you going at this hour ? ’ |
| 7 | Where are you going at this time of night ? ’ |
| 8 | Or are you pointing at thin air ? ’ |
| 9 | I said , ‘ Were you aiming at that flag ? ’ |
| 10 | What are you doing at this moment ? ’ we said and , still in mid-conversation , both went into our separate loos . |
| 11 | The road 's difficult enough without you yelling at each other , and I 'm tired . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Were you guessing at that Track Two business ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ If I so much as catch you smiling at another woman — ’ |
| 14 | Will that continue to be the case , or are we looking at some kind of block grant formula here ? |
| 15 | Now what were we looking at last time ? |
| 16 | There followed a silence in which Agnes imagined them glaring at each other . |
| 17 | In my opinion it would be a very rash collector who banked on him staying at that level . |
| 18 | The slightest accident on the motorway can become a multiple pile-up because there 's people like him travelling at this speed . |
| 19 | The amplified muezzins of the town 's mosques spent much of it chanting at full volume . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't mind them celebrating Christmas but it 's insensitive to keep it going at that level for that long . |
| 21 | Now what was he going at that speed for ? |
| 22 | Maggie looked down and saw it moving at some speed ; dust flung up in a stream behind it and it was waiting as they taxied to a halt . |
| 23 | You left them thrashin' at thin air . |
| 24 | ‘ It could knock us flying at any moment , ’ she said grimly . |
| 25 | I am bowled over by my first day at school ; there are scores of us sitting at long bench desks in a vast wooden hut . |