Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] 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 | Not looking for you at all . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | He was not looking at me at all . |
| 10 | He was n't looking at her at all when he said this . |
| 11 | Ruth was looking at her at last with sharp , bright black eyes . |
| 12 | But that 's because we 're looking at it at close quarters . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Dee 's calling for me at ten . |
| 16 | The car would now be calling for him at seven . |
| 17 | And she had wondered how it was she was speaking of him at all . |
| 18 | ‘ I remember her staying with us at Carinish Court , ’ James was saying . |
| 19 | Who could it be calling on him at this time of night ? |
| 20 | 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 … |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She felt the bones give and moved away quickly , coughing now , the smoke getting to her at last . |
| 23 | 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 ! |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Was he running for it at last ? |
| 27 | Coming for it at three . |
| 28 | It 's just that he 's coming for it at three so if I get my camera I want it before three . |
| 29 | ‘ I get a lot of laughs from everyone who sees me , especially when I 'm going across long grass and all they can see is an airline captain coming towards them at great speed with exhaust smoke coming from my rear end . |
| 30 | Also more particularly because this particular bit of work has had such thorough examination by the presbyteries that it does n't seem to er justify further tinkering with it at this stage . |