Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The erstwhile bandido wore a bloody nose which he was dabbing at with an oversized tartan handkerchief .
2 part of the area that we would be looking at for the new settlement .
3 Aberdeenshire grain farmers who last autumn stiffened themselves to trade wheat against the back stop of just £95 a tonne for product sold to the EC Commission for intervention , are now looking at at an ex-farm price of £140 a tonne .
4 Everything is smaller down there — including their eyeballs — to the same extent-so the eye still gets filled up with what it 's looking at in the normal way .
5 Four Greenpeace volunteers attempting to take samples for radioactivity testing at in the French nuclear testing ground of Muroroa atoll were arrested by French commandos on Dec. 11 .
6 It is this that I was hinting at in the previous chapter , when I referred to the queen ant as the central data bank .
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