Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I went on my way , gazing anew at the beauties of the course . |
| 2 | He was clean-shaven , in the Norman manner , leaving open to view a face broad at brow and well provided with strong and shapely bone , a lean jaw , and a full , firm mouth , long-lipped and mobile , and quirking upward at the corners to match a certain incalculable spark in his eye . |
| 3 | Carl is banging away at the drums , |
| 4 | In an air attack on the way back he had been killed while firing away at the fighters who were strafing his truck . |
| 5 | The Blues are also looking enviously at the Ports Dublin-based midfielder Martin Russell . |
| 6 | After the cremation , while the few mourners were looking gloomily at the flowers , his uncle 's solicitor , a partner in the Ipswich practice , spoke to Lewis simply to say that he believed he already knew the contents of the will . |
| 7 | The young boy still stood like a soldier , holding the reins of the horses , his eyes looking eagerly at the piles of steaming dung obligingly dropped by both Philomel and Cranston 's mount . |
| 8 | That rap is snapping away at the threads that bind the hypocrisy of society is now an acknowledged fact . |
| 9 | It 's not just the automotive industry which is looking critically at the suppliers . |
| 10 | Looking critically at the practices and processes of black , women artists , this course will concentrate on contemporary women of colour in the UK , their social relationships in the light of their gender and class . |
| 11 | She fell silent , looking uncertainly at the students . |
| 12 | This chapter is intended to illustrate the operation of community policing in Easton , and in the process to assess the commitment given it by the ordinary policemen and women who carry it out , looking separately at the units responsible for community relations and neighbourhood policing . |
| 13 | It seems Rover is now keeping faith with old faithfuls but analysts are looking more at the motives rather than the marketing . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not sure that there are many things suitable for men , though , ’ she added , looking helplessly at the aprons , bed jackets and hand-knitted babies ' woollens . |
| 15 | He came and stood behind her , staring over her shoulder at the screen , frowning darkly at the columns of figures displayed . |
| 16 | for it would have been possible , they argue , to move towards a system that examined knowledge and skills which crossed old subject boundaries ; a new way of looking both at the sciences and the arts could have been incorporated in the new syllabuses . |
| 17 | It 's an inset problem , and therefore one is looking inevitably at the reasons for which you can moved an inset boundary , supposing that one already exists , which it does n't , but let us suppose it does . |
| 18 | Back in the church the priests were shouting angrily at the men . |
| 19 | I 've burned lots of people , it does n't hurt a bit , ’ said Liartes , looking sideways at the bushes . |
| 20 | I sent you the articles that I had in my scrapbook from Colesfield on October tenth , I am looking now at the ones from Gdynia , Poland , on October ninth and its headlines Port Libs hit Poland and Prussia with vast damage caused by wrecker raid on four targets deep in the East , Gdynia , Danzig , German plane plants are blasting great weekend blitz , Bremen and Hanover get it again . |
| 21 | Panting and breathless , she forged ahead , looking now at the cliffs of North Foreland , which looked within walking distance today , and now at some fishing-boats far out at sea . |
| 22 | Looking now at the gains and losses bar graph for the year we see that the main explanation for their growth has been the addition of thirty-two members through transfer . |
| 23 | This solution in the case when has been further investigated by Taub ( 1988 a ) , looking particularly at the properties of the distribution valued curvature tensor . |
| 24 | As I said earlier , during our presidency we shall be looking particularly at the prospects for enlargement of the Community . |
| 25 | Looking coldly at the figures and at the Plafond Limité de Classement ( PLC ) of 13,000 kilograms per hectare , it would seem that most of Champagne 's production in those two years should have been sent off to the distillery . |
| 26 | Leila sauntered round his desk , looking intently at the mounds of equipment covering it . |
| 27 | But they are supremely experienced in the process of discovery , and when they do play older repertory they always do it with a sense of looking freshly at the notes , taking nothing for granted . |
| 28 | By the time they met , Leonard was indeed pushing hard at the doors of his own individuality — in one sense he had been doing that for years . |
| 29 | Peng Yu-wei bowed , then turned his head , looking across at the soldiers who were now level with them . |
| 30 | As Folly exited from the changing-rooms , the sound came from behind her , and she swung round to see Luke leaning against the wall , looking across at the scenes of relaxation in the Seraglio with a look of malicious amusement on his face . |