Example sentences of "[v-ing] at the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or there was the horse-racing , cricket or football in the parkland , a visit to the skating-rink , or simply marvelling at the mixture of bravura , vulgarity and confidence with which the Victorians had dropped this gigantic testament to British economic expansion into what were then the sleepy rural outskirts of the fast-expanding city . |
| 2 | On evening walks down Loreto , a lane of high stone walls , trying to decide on a restaurant , I would stop and run my hands over the ashlars , marvelling at the purity of each one as I have marvelled at the completeness of a sculpture by Brancusi ; each of them so tightly locked together that I found it impossible to fit a fingernail between them . |
| 3 | Whilst they fished I explored the shores , haunting the hides , marvelling at the variety of bird , plant and animal life . |
| 4 | John Coffin walked away , marvelling at the strangeness of life which made him now mourn a petty criminal whom he had not liked and whom no one had appeared to love , and who might , just possibly , have also poisoned three people . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sure it is n't as bad as that , ’ said Greg , who was n't who was , in fact , marvelling at the effect of three weeks of Viola , and wondering whether there could n't be more to it than just that . |
| 6 | Visitors marvelling at the perfection of work at the Woodworker Show . |
| 7 | He turned to look at her , marvelling at the perfection of her body and the animal passion he had found in her . |
| 8 | Athelstan sat looking at her in wonderment , constantly marvelling at the difference in women , contrasting this hag to the beauty of Lady Isabella . |
| 9 | ‘ Nursery Rhymes : Etchings by Paula Rego ’ is a new South Bank Centre touring exhibition , opening at the School of Art & Design in Falmouth , and continuing until 10 February . |
| 10 | Then some grass , and a dark green van , and doors opening at the back of it , and grey flat people moving in a white square . |
| 11 | There would be a two-week run at the Theatre Royal , Norwich , before opening at the Prince of Wales Theatre on 23 September 1976 . |
| 12 | NOW YOU 'VE stopped laughing at the idea of Kevin Costner in tights , you can have a chuckle at the cast rumoured to be lined up for his Robin Hood movie Prince Of Thieves — Danny DeVito ( above ) as Friar Tuck , either Patsy Kensit , Emily Lloyd or Imogen Stubbs as Maid Marian and as Robin 's big buddy Little John , John Goodman , who is reported to have been paid $750,000 just to stay interested in playing Fred Flintstone while the producers look for a script |
| 13 | After laughing at the idea of launching Forest Hills in Liverpool , Adidas let him have 500 pairs . |
| 14 | We all fell about laughing at the idea of a man with virtually no English suddenly coming out with such a word . |
| 15 | ‘ I just could n't help laughing at the idea of the Devil himself sitting by my fire … |
| 16 | She wondered if the others were playing a joke on her : perhaps they 'd gone out for a walk ; perhaps , at this very moment , they were laughing at the thought of her waiting for a killer who would never come . |
| 17 | Then she started laughing at the top of her voice . |
| 18 | I have seen too many offenders laughing at the courts for their weaknesses , too many malcontents exploiting the absence or inadequacy of the law , and too many criminals making the cool assessment that the risk of detection is well worth taking . |
| 19 | She burst out laughing at the absurdity of it , laughed until she cried , and when the tears came he groped across the table to touch her hand around the empty glass . |
| 20 | She could n't help laughing at the absurdity of the whole situation . |
| 21 | ‘ We were a jolly party , ’ wrote Beatrice Webb , wife of the President of the Board of Trade , ‘ all laughing at the joke of Labour in Office . ’ |
| 22 | He will be laughing at the client behind his back . |
| 23 | This cosmic ‘ year ’ was divided into four periods , each of 3,000 years , Zarathustra 's life occurring at the beginning of the final period . |
| 24 | That just depicts the same structure in terms of constituents and sub-constituents , so the whole thing is a sentence which in the bracketing notation just has the sentence with its bracket and the other bracket 's way down the other end , and this is mirrored by the label sentence occurring at the top of the tree , it means it covers everything below it roughly . |
| 25 | Thus a type II supernova occurring at the centre of our Galaxy is expected to produce a strain under the assumption that a mass of is converted to gravitational radiation . |
| 26 | If the C M I does n't lead to this kind of balance then it can have this sort of effect and get rapidly fatal tuberculosis occurring at the time of the primary infection . |
| 27 | These findings also have important implications for the analysis of prolonged motility recordings in patients with non-cardiac chest pain : repetitive simultaneous pressure waves occurring at the time of an attack of chest pain , do not necessarily indicate that the pain was accompanied by disorders of oesophageal motility , or that such disorders were the cause of the chest pain . |
| 28 | Second , as regards durability , the goods should last for a reasonable time and any breach should be regarded as occurring at the time of supply rather than when the lack of durability became apparent . |
| 29 | Finally , the additional time taken to read words occurring at the end of clauses and sentences might reflect the time taken to carry out syntactic processing of that particular clause or sentence . |
| 30 | All over the City , people were killing each other , having torrid affairs in seedy motel rooms , stealing bodies from the morgue , working late on revolutionary inventions , hiding out from the cops , waiting for the locksmith , running numbers , rock ‘ n ’ rolling at the high-school hop , praying at the bedsides of white-haired mothers , looking for the uranium in the wine cellar , describing their dreams to sage psychoanalysts , rehearsing for the big show , escaping across the rooftops . |