Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And this year you 're crazy about Maria Luisa , ’ Ruth murmured , gazing down at the fingers she had been wringing till they were red and hot . |
| 2 | ‘ Cream cakes … with all the cream oozing out at the sides . |
| 3 | Alexei was looking down at the skirts of his coat . |
| 4 | But looking down at the words now , it did not appear so simple . |
| 5 | When they had gone , Maria glanced at Luke , but to her relief he was looking down at the photos Florian had left behind , his expression inscrutable . |
| 6 | Back to the edge of the island and there was already a crowd of people looking down at the rocks . |
| 7 | And the woman seemed in no hurry to close it and shut out the dangerous night ; she simply stood , looking down at the children and smiling . |
| 8 | The two boys stood looking down at the heaps of feathers . |
| 9 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 10 | I floated on my back looking up at the puffs of white cloud dotted about the blue sky . |
| 11 | Another man would have gone away , would have pretended we were not there , would have stood looking up at the wall-plaques and the windows until we had gone safely away . |
| 12 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 13 | Then Bunny , battling his way against the flow of the children , appeared in the hall and halted for a moment , the belt of his mackintosh undone , looking up at the windows of the rehearsal room . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , ’ he replied , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 15 | He did not say that a week ago the boy had been standing under the monkey-puzzle in the middle of the night , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 16 | She said she wanted Timothy Gedge to stop looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 17 | Well , there 's a certain romance in floating in a warm swimming pool on a cold winter 's night , looking up at the stars and wondering whether to fling oneself down the rapids or go and sit in a Jacuzzi instead . |
| 18 | And I 'd stand there , easing my aching back , and looking up at the stars . |
| 19 | Looking up at the stars I thought of the goddess Nut , her breasts spangled with constellations . |
| 20 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |
| 21 | Halfway down we caught up with them outside the Trift Hotel and sat together in the sunshine on the veranda looking up at the peaks , eating spaghetti and drinking beer . |
| 22 | She was coming along the opposite pavement on foot and was looking up at the buildings as if she were not sure of being in the right street . |
| 23 | Benjamin paused and we all stared at the young woman now sitting back in her chair looking up at the rafters , tapping the table top and humming a tune to herself . |
| 24 | Mirabilis continued to stab the picture , muttering low-voiced curses , looking up at the walls where the pigeon was still standing . |
| 25 | You may , looking back at the stories about those two ( and you should have read them , twice over ) think they are no more than high old eccentrics bright enough to solve intriguing cases . |
| 26 | Donna slid behind the wheel of the Volvo and sat there for a moment , looking back at the ruins . |
| 27 | And then , looking back at the pictures — sharp , full of insight , yet somehow slightly flashy — he wondered whether , indirectly , they did n't give him the best notion he yet had got of Walter Machin himself . |
| 28 | It is introduced by looking back at the events which took place at Navron through the eyes of a ‘ trespasser in time ’ observing the memories that still haunt the place after Dona and the others have been and gone . |
| 29 | A quiet woman in a large white apron brought them cold white wine in a red earthenware jug , and they sat at the edge of the patio looking out at the rows of vines , of lemon trees , tomatoes and capsicums that straggled down the hillside , shaded in places by tall cypresses and stunted white-trunked olive trees . |
| 30 | Sammy stood on the mat shaking his fur by the open door and looking out at the sheets of rain that were now whipping across the graveyard . |