Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [v-ing] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I sat on the train and could see other commuters walking past looking at the man in horror . |
| 2 | But the stakes are so much higher than the mere semantics of the laws relating to lifting at the lineout . |
| 3 | We thought we had an enormous pile but unfortunately our fire was not very long lasting and by 6 o'clock we were wandering about looking at the other , more professionally built conflagrations . |
| 4 | Editor , — Reviewing our book , Emily Grundy wrote : ‘ They … contend that there are no grounds for speaking of aging at the cellular level . ’ |
| 5 | Instead , our precise conclusion was that ‘ the probability of cell death does not increase with the age of the culture ; ie , there are no grounds for speaking of aging at the cellular level ’ ( p 216 ) . |
| 6 | in theory they should not be able to talk to each-other because they 're either answering the phone and talking to somebody else bloody getting on looking at the screen and typing |
| 7 | Gumperz approaches the pragmatics of code switching by looking at the social significance of each language or code , the content of the utterance and the code of that utterance . |
| 8 | So really starting towards looking at the different nature of strategies the new one would have . |
| 9 | The two went noisily to the bus-stop , leaving Alice on the doorstep , stunned , and staring without seeing at the letter she had written to her mother , thrust into her hand by Monica . |
| 10 | Going back to seeing to looking at the erm goods shed . |
| 11 | I only saved myself from falling by clutching at the arm of the oak settle . |
| 12 | Every X , X doe X saw herself cos all the does are standing around looking at the lake , seeing their reflections so there is just a quantifier . |