Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A large bird , a crow as far as she could tell , flapped up from picking at something on the ground and wheeled away high above her . |
| 2 | Having scrabbled round picking up as many ‘ pros ’ as I can find , and then weighing them against the ‘ cons ’ , while looking at everything in the most optimistic light , there can be no doubt that we are doomed . |
| 3 | That would mean you would be looking at something on the A sixty four north or happily for Mr , the A sixty four south or the A nineteen south . |
| 4 | Viewers , when presented with a shot in which the subject is seen looking at something off the screen , will assume that the next shot will show whatever it was that the person was looking at . |
| 5 | we argued there that erm scale of migration was not necessary to be contained within Leeds and Bradford , to promote regeneration because we 're s we 're now , we have now exhausted all our brown field sites to the extent that we 've had to take land out of our greenbelt , but there we were looking at something in the order of four thousand dwellings in three dris districts , spread over fifteen years , and we might reasonably assume that they 'd come forward in a dispersed manner on a site by site basis er and be relatively small scale , certainly we would be looking at the local plans which flow from this alteration to make sure that will be the case , now a new settlement 's a completely different animal , you would have to come forward quickly otherwise it would not be regarded as a success , it would it would need wide publicity , perhaps across the whole region , maybe even beyond , it would be a a major attraction to anybody thinking of moving house er from Leeds to a a location which would be accessible to them to retain their employment in Leeds , so I think we were talking about two different things entirely , more than that Mr Brighton 's su suggested that fifteen hundred would not be an adequate scale , it would have to be , I think two thousand five hundred was his figure , er Mr Timothy 's suggested th the same sort of thinking , and Mr Brook to , that the the settlement would have to get bigger , erm which only compounds our problem , any any settlement which grew larger and larger and inevitably would contain more employment as well as housing would become more of a threat to the regeneration of Leeds and , perhaps to a lesser extent Bradford , and it 's on |
| 6 | But I am looking at something from the previous century . |
| 7 | She saw them standing at the window looking at someone in the garden with great interest . |
| 8 | Things were getting interesting at last , Lacuna was dumbstruck , and no-one except her was looking at anything except the screens . |
| 9 | Speaking from London at the announcement of record profits for the Birkenhead-based firm , he said : ‘ We are not rushing at anything but the question must be asked what do we do with our cash balances . |
| 10 | He was wearing a tin helmet and staring at something on the wall , a picture . |
| 11 | Ben was crouched at the water 's edge , intensely still , staring at something in the tall , thick rushes to his right . |
| 12 | When after a moment it had not moved , I resorted to the car horn , but this had no effect other than to make the creature commence pecking at something on the ground . |
| 13 | I went home and I st I got very very anxious , I started feeling suicidal , I was blubbering at everything on the television , now I could cry but I was crying too much . |