Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [v-ing] at the " in BNC.
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1 | Keen mountaineer Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , left to go on a day 's hiking in an area frequented by grizzly bears last Thursday , but friends only reported him missing at the weekend . |
2 | They found her sitting at the table with the Telegraph , nibbling toast . |
3 | He found her sitting at the desk which was quite clear . |
4 | Ruth poured cornflakes and milk , and ate them sitting at the table where Rachaela drank her coffee . |
5 | Harriet noticed her looking at the groceries and said cheerfully , ‘ I took one of those cordon bleu cookery courses . |
6 | I heard him growling at the crowd . |
7 | Hari heard him beating at the bushes with his truncheon and then he opened the door to the workshop . |
8 | He watched his dejected figure walk past him into the cottage and , after allowing a few minutes to elapse , followed him in and discovered him sitting at the table in the living room , his bag of apples and sandwich lying untouched . |
9 | So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course . |
10 | I watched her sipping at the stuff , making faces . |
11 | She saw them standing at the window looking at someone in the garden with great interest . |
12 | Reid saw me looking at the iron bars . |
13 | He saw me looking at the picture and said , ‘ Kolwezi , Southern Zaire , 1978 . ’ |
14 | But something kept me sitting at the desk . |
15 | 1991 , 27 1042 ) , prompted a childhood memory and sent me rummaging at the top of the house for 300 Things a bright boy can do , a book presented to me by some relative ca 1928 . |
16 | ‘ Fair enough — I kept you waiting at the Company office . |
17 | When I saw him dancing at the Saturday night disco at the Turtle Bay Hilton I thought I had discovered how it was he managed to survive those horrendous wipeouts . |
18 | Ratagan and Luib took first watch , whilst the rest lay and listened to the wind , felt it tugging at the tarpaulin . |
19 | ( In fact , Stalin , who shared many Romanian peasants ' anti-Semitic distaste for Pauker 's origins , supported her purging at the end of his life . ) |
20 | In fact he had me arriving at the scene in a police car with two tones , at , at , at that time we did n't have police cars with two tones , just siren , so they obviously put some sound on it . |
21 | November 2nd 1981 had me arriving at the mere on a calm , mild , dull day that saw hardly a ripple on the surface . |
22 | So high were these prison walls , indeed , that they left you wondering at the build of the common Italian criminal . |
23 | When she gave him the number he just rang off and left her staring at the phone . |