Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] [adv prt] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stopped looking up at a rocket : a towering metal redwood that had never flown because the ones that flew were junk scattered across the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 2 | I used to do a job which involved getting up at an unearthly hour while , as far as I could tell , the rest of the world slept . |
| 3 | Then he tried smiling back at the serious-faced child , for this must surely be a tease . |
| 4 | However , I made my position very clear to the Whaddon and Mitchley Argus sports hack , Mark Crowe , when he came sniffing round at the funeral . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're in luck , ’ said Jonna , as Ned came panting in at the doorway with an armful of heavily-foliaged twigs . |
| 6 | That opinion is absolutely in line with that expressed by the people of Kincardine and Deeside who thoroughly rejected opting out at the ballot box . |
| 7 | Next moment the swirling fog in the alley was suddenly lit to a brilliant white by the head lamps of the car which came roaring in at the far end . |
| 8 | He began hanging out at a seedy bar where transvestites , gay guys in leather jackets , and even butch lesbians , would lay him across a table and then crawl all over him . |
| 9 | Graham grinned looking over at the two Art School girls , who were now sitting on the floor on the other side of the room , talking to each other . |
| 10 | Removal of water through artesian wells is held to be the reason why the tower began going off at an angle soon after building work began in 1174 . |
| 11 | Normally he enjoyed staying over at the firm 's northern hospitality suite which was situated above their offices — bloody hell , he had treated a few girls to his own style of hospitality there enough times — but tonight it was all wrong . |
| 12 | Tallis followed glancing back at the huge carvings , their grotesque faces watching her , some compassionately , some with mocking expressions . |
| 13 | But Professor Avenarius was late , and I kept watching the woman ; she was alone at the pool , standing waist-deep in the water , and she kept looking up at the young lifeguard in sweatpants who was teaching her to swim . |
| 14 | I kept looking up at the Royal Box and thinking , ‘ Stevie Foster would have stood there . ’ ’ |
| 15 | He cleared his throat once more and resumed staring up at the ceiling . |
| 16 | Joseph said glancing up at the serious young man . |
| 17 | Pavel sat gazing out at the loading area as the man looked through a small number of memos and facsimile messages . |
| 18 | God how she hated them , the middle classes , penny-pinching , doling out their little bits , in their minds always the thought of saving and accumulating , saving — thought Alice , her mouth full of bile , as she stood gazing up at a beam a foot across that looked grey and flaky , with whitey-yellow fibres in it — the dry rot itself , which would lay its creeping arms over all the wood , if it were allowed , then creep down the walls , into the floor below , spread like a disease … |
| 19 | By now they were in the square , and stood gazing up at the gilded splendour of the cathedral 's spire and turrets , bright in the low November sun . |
| 20 | They stood gazing out at the few early swallows looping around the hazy , fragrant air . |
| 21 | As soon as she took it he went over to the window and stood gazing out at the rain . |
| 22 | Cley rose to his feet and stood gazing down at the councillor . |
| 23 | ‘ I suppose you want me to go first , ’ said Caspar as they stood looking up at the open window , which was grimy and smeary , but much lower than the other windows . |
| 24 | Leonora jumped out , stood looking up at the house for a few moments more , then ran up the steps to ring the doorbell , laughter bubbling up inside as she anticipated Penry 's surprise at the sight of her . |
| 25 | Instead , she went to the window and stood looking out at the vast starry sky . |
| 26 | One of the crewmen of the small boat stood looking out at the city all around him , smoking a cigarette and gazing at the myriad lights . |
| 27 | The two boys stood looking down at the heaps of feathers . |
| 28 | They both stood looking down at the poor sufferer , neither speaking . |
| 29 | She stood looking down at the tiny fireplace . |
| 30 | I stood looking down at the pavement below the payphone while Dennis padded across the wall-to-wall carpeting and called distantly to his wife . |