Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Shee-it , ’ I said , and felt guilty that I was leaving the island without sharing the chicken dinner that Sarah Straker was doubtless cooking for me at that very moment . |
| 2 | He had often told her that it was a social disadvantage having the sort of wife he could n't take anywhere , but he dropped this line when she started appearing beside him at literary lunches and old school do 's . |
| 3 | In his introduction Norris acknowledges the difficulty of writing about him at all in such a context : |
| 4 | Suppose that my friend was not looking for me at all . |
| 5 | They might not know him by sight , or might not be looking for him at all . |
| 6 | Keep condoms handy , so you do n't have to go tearing around looking for them at that crucial moment . |
| 7 | In a bedroom you 're looking for something at one ninety nine or two ninety nine . |
| 8 | Not looking for you at all . |
| 9 | The standard interpretation of their redshifts says that NGC 4319 is receding from us at 1800 km per sec , while the redshift of Markarian 205 indicates a recession velocity of 21 000 km per sec ( The Redshift Controversy , G. B. Field , H. Arp & J. N. Bahcall , W. A. Benjamin , New York , 1974 , p 46 ) . |
| 10 | He was not looking at me at all . |
| 11 | He was n't looking at her at all when he said this . |
| 12 | Ruth was looking at her at last with sharp , bright black eyes . |
| 13 | But that 's because we 're looking at it at close quarters . |
| 14 | Anyway yes , Whit 's going to us at some stage and I will wander round town while he 's doing his talk and then transcribe it |
| 15 | Apart from that , I have n't the least interest in whether you choose to kill yourself by falling from a great height , or crashing into something at high speed . ’ |
| 16 | We combine these by choosing just a few random points in them , say two or three , and copying from the first string up to the first point ; then copying from the second up to the second point ; then copying from the first again ; and so on , switching between them at each point . |
| 17 | Dee 's calling for me at ten . |
| 18 | The car would now be calling for him at seven . |
| 19 | And what I was going to be getting for myself at some stage cos I 'd like to do the rest of the curtains myself . |
| 20 | And she had wondered how it was she was speaking of him at all . |
| 21 | ‘ I remember her staying with us at Carinish Court , ’ James was saying . |
| 22 | Who could it be calling on him at this time of night ? |
| 23 | The philosophical critique , in varying ways , attempted to undermine the project of the sociology of knowledge by pointing to its at best doubtful , at worst vacuous , epistemological basis . |
| 24 | As Byron put it , ‘ I never loved nor pretended to love her , but a man is a man , and if a girl of 18 comes prancing to you at all hours , there is but one way … |
| 25 | From his expression there was not much chance of speaking to him at all and she cast a wary look behind her to the door . |
| 26 | She felt the bones give and moved away quickly , coughing now , the smoke getting to her at last . |
| 27 | She 's only limping on it at certain times cos she came rushing into my bedroom last night and you were n't limping then ! |
| 28 | There was nothing , and suddenly there was everything : solid , sodden fields slightly canted over , and three , four German aircraft flying across them at fifteen hundred feet . |
| 29 | On three sides of this mound there is a colonnade on a raised platform comprising sixteen evenly spaced square pillars of unhewn stone , each thirty-two feet high , linked together at the top by heavy beams with ropes and chains hanging from them at short intervals . |
| 30 | Was he running for it at last ? |