Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [art] [noun] who " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joolz was cautioned by the police for swearing at a heckler who swore at her . |
| 2 | Arghatun was shouting at the warriors who were grouped around the clearing , and twenty or so ran at once to one of the carts and pulled out a mass of folded fabric . |
| 3 | You are looking at a woman who has survived Europe , South America and East Africa — entirely without a maid . |
| 4 | I sat in a corner looking at the Dutchmen who smiled surreptitiously from the platform . |
| 5 | ‘ When people vote on the day , they are looking at the party who will form the government , and in this part of the country they do not want socialism , ’ said Mr Peter Hodgson , the Conservatives ' Western Area chairman , who was confident the Conservatives would retain all their seats . |
| 6 | He was leaning against the casualty department door leering at the nurse who was dabbing gently at the three parallel scratches on Martin 's face . |
| 7 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 8 | And in a fortnight or three weeks time they too would be found with the inquisitive crowd on the inside of the gate staring at the prisoners who had just arrived . |
| 9 | She hurried to the front door , glaring at the man who stood on the step . |
| 10 | An official report by the National Human Rights Commission accused Morán of ignoring repeated requests from the local federal police to stop his soldiers firing at the agents who were trying to intercept an aircraft later discovered to be carrying some 360 kg of cocaine from Colombia to Mexico . |
| 11 | Finnan was shouting commands and swords were still flashing at the beasts who fought to clamber on board . |
| 12 | Then one officer drove his car with headlights flashing at the dogs who released Mr Daszczuk and the two animals were eventually shot dead by police from an armed response vehicle . |
| 13 | Ace demanded , freeing himself from the constraints of his seatbelt as the jet , now airborne , levelled off , and smiling at the stewardess who was bending over him with familiarity , offering what was obviously his normal choice of drink . |