Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No hair-stroking or sighing or staring sorrowfully at the ceiling , not for her . |
| 2 | Felicity had come out in a severe facial rash and spent the time either screaming or staring fixedly at the paperknife on her desk . |
| 3 | Everyone in the board room was either clearing his throat , or shifting position in his seat , or doing both at the same time , which is actually rather difficult . |
| 4 | It was shabby but civilised , alive with history but inhabited also by living poets and thinkers who could be found squatting on the slotted metal floors of the stacks , or arguing pleasantly at the turning of the stair . |
| 5 | Wholesome cooking used to mean a whole lot of work … not least of it , reaching up to the grill , and scrubbing away at the oven and hotplate . |
| 6 | Of course she could , she told herself , clenching her fists and gazing unseeingly at the distant mountain-tops . |
| 7 | I was standing motionless by the desk , and gazing vacantly at the letter , when I heard some footsteps outside the door . |
| 8 | as if on cue , they heard footsteps on the back stairs at that moment , and Tom himself entered the kitchen after crossing the back porch and knocking briefly at the door . |
| 9 | He was clean-shaven , in the Norman manner , leaving open to view a face broad at brow and well provided with strong and shapely bone , a lean jaw , and a full , firm mouth , long-lipped and mobile , and quirking upward at the corners to match a certain incalculable spark in his eye . |
| 10 | The remaining three peaks of the west ridge ( Loughshannagh , Carn and Muck ) are not especially exciting , but below the ridge to the east is a broad shelf containing the beautiful little lake of Lough Shannagh and ending abruptly at the top of the Ben Crom cliffs . |
| 11 | ‘ The wiseacres of the village ’ , so Joseph Cottle heard from Coleridge , ‘ had … made Mr. W. the subject of their serious conversation ’ and concluded that a man so given to wandering the hills at late hours ‘ like a partridge ’ , and looking strangely at the moon , must either be a conjuror , a smuggler , or worst of all ‘ a desperd French jacobin ’ who was spying out the ground for a French invasion . |
| 12 | She saw that the leader of the religious group had separated himself from the majority and was standing near to the sea 's edge and looking directly at the horizon . |
| 13 | The yellowish horns are of medium length , growing outwards and then curving slightly forwards in the bull , and finer and well spread in the cow , whose horns grow in various directions but preferably level and turning upwards at the tips , which are black . |
| 14 | As Gloucester used to be a major droving centre , there was inevitably much crossing with various Welsh types and the Gloucester 's slender , white , dark-tipped horns , spreading quite wide and tilting upwards at the tip , are often similar in style to those of the Welsh , though more refined and a little shorter . |
| 15 | Terrific ! ’ he cries with touching enthusiasm , placing his reading glasses on that craggy face and peering appreciatively at the Churchill Crown . |
| 16 | The cabinet slammed full against the shape , pinning it down and jamming sideways at the bottom of the stairwell . |
| 17 | The third step is cracked and breaking away at the edge . |
| 18 | A few yards away he noticed a couple of unsympathetic men raising the lid of the Luggage and pointing excitedly at the bags of gold . |
| 19 | Instead , he was leaning forward , peering through the glass that separated them from the chauffeur and glaring furiously at the car in front of them . |
| 20 | Denis noticed that his uncle , sitting about three seats ahead of him was coughing more than usual , and glaring openly at the briars either side of him . |
| 21 | Kidd glanced across at the cornered Volkswagen , its terrified inhabitant , the three FBI men examining the empty attaché case , two more Yankees standing back and staring hopefully at the sky , and three of his colleagues trying to take statements . |
| 22 | Two lynx , sleek and amber in the first enclosure that he passed , were disregarding the tourists and staring possessively at the peafowl across the way . |
| 23 | It was the time of wooden pit props and er much kneeling and laying down and hacking away at the coal with picks and there was no mining machinery as we know it now . |
| 24 | Howard alternated between scanning their surroundings for signs of hostile action , and glancing worriedly at the Doctor , all the time fearing for his car 's safety at these maniacal velocities . |
| 25 | Call like Green Woodpecker , but more musical , slower and falling away at the end . |
| 26 | Then , distant beyond the broad bowl full of skeleton walls , she saw the headlights of a car pass on the road to Silcaster , sweeping eerily across the filigree of stonework and grass , and vanishing again at the turn of the highway . |
| 27 | I was living at home and working well at the Co-op in Hammersmith , dealing with ledger sales , counting the cash , keeping it flowing . |
| 28 | There is a rush for the door , the audience spill out into the road , stopping the traffic and gesturing wildly at the roof of the cinema . |
| 29 | But looking purely at the outside bit , If they 'd have had some whitewash on I think they 'd have looked better . |
| 30 | The three men stood together for some time while the long-faced sheep ambled around them , sometimes coming close to examine them but scuttering away at the slightest of their movements , sending a ripple of bells through the whole flock . |