Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Volkov held her close ; marvelling at her selfless courage even as he reproached her . |
| 2 | ‘ But I think he was quite rational last night , ’ said Breeze , marvelling at her own coolness . |
| 3 | Most of them had visited the invalid often during the past few months , marvelling at his gallant spirit and his unfailing good temper . |
| 4 | I managed to film this without Mr Bolt Head noticing at our last meeting . |
| 5 | ‘ Did I not say , Harry , that I 'd get it from you , and no other ? ’ said Isambard , still laughing at his stricken face . |
| 6 | part of her expected to find them laughing at his wild reaction beyond all sense and to return her to the blessed normal but when she looked around only Maggie stood in the room . |
| 7 | He doubled up laughing at his own joke . |
| 8 | Then Brett started laughing at my Brummy vest . |
| 9 | ‘ Sometimes even big girls cry , ’ he mused , his lips quirking at her sudden transition from tears to rage . |
| 10 | Alfred Dunhill opened shops in Geneva and Madrid , and Hackett has started trading at its new flagship store in Sloane Street , London . |
| 11 | Her rolled-up handkerchief was already soaked through but she went on twisting it round and round in her fingers and dabbing at her wet face . |
| 12 | Continue walking at your own speed , pulling slightly on the leash in order to tighten the choke chain , accompanying this with the command ‘ heel ’ . |
| 13 | Headlong she ran , heedless of the branches that caught at her , tearing at her dark stuff gown , ripping away the white cap that covered her hair . |
| 14 | Noreen teaches HGV lorry driving at her own school in Halifax . |
| 15 | Forgetting the pain clawing at her maltreated ankle , Luce stared unbelievingly at a head and shoulders portrait of herself . |
| 16 | The new levels of grant — £2,845 in London halls or lodgings , £2,265 out of London and £1,795 for students living at their parental home — should remain frozen from next autumn as the loan scheme is phased in . |
| 17 | Even when living at their own expense , princes had higher expectations . |
| 18 | She was shouting now , scorching with pain , pushing at his hard chest in a futile effort to move him away from the door . |
| 19 | The Earl had been shouting at her that morning , ‘ Have n't you gone yet ? |
| 20 | ‘ When you were shouting at me last night I realised , perhaps for the first time , just exactly what you 'd gone through all your life . |
| 21 | She was shouting at me and shouting at her own helplessness . |
| 22 | If somebody comes up with a suggestion for a change to a procedure , at this meeting , yes you should be looking at what that suggestion for change is but all of you round the table should be thinking , well does that change adversely effect other jobs in our areas and it should n't happen that you will get change after change after change . |
| 23 | Over the next three days we 'll be looking at what more tax would mean … |
| 24 | He made an impatient movement and faced her , looking at her pure profile . |
| 25 | Looking at her recent outburst on America 's Saturday Night Live , in many ways the girl was right . |
| 26 | The big woman got to her feet now and , looking at her eldest son , she said , ‘ I 'm goin' up to get into me things . ’ |
| 27 | Was he being paranoid to imagine that she was looking at her fellow switchboard operators , rolling her eyes , one hand over the receiver , saying , ‘ It 's him ! |
| 28 | The fact that she was doing this and not looking at her old friend made her doubts about this statement less evident , but all the same my mother protested . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're sure it is n't catching ? ’ he 'd teased , once more looking at her red face . |
| 30 | Her grandmother sat for hours looking at her shrinking face through the glass . |