Example sentences of "[adv prt] [v-ing] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a minute more , the boy went on gazing at the Harewoman . |
| 2 | He went on looking at the floor , thoughtful . |
| 3 | He did n't even ask the next question but went on looking at the Consul General expectantly . |
| 4 | That would we feel is certainly in a coordinating way and if somebody for instance er say you 've got a husband and wife living together , one of them suddenly becomes handicapped in a particular way , what we are planning to do is trying to develop programmes which will enable the carer to have to go on training at the County Council 's expense to enable them to look after somebody in their own homes and it 's a type of thing we want to develop . |
| 5 | and erm you 're looking , you 're , let's say you turn up looking at a screen , you 're actually standing up like they used to do in the old days before they had radar |
| 6 | Both user and non-user end up searching at the shelves . |
| 7 | But if the guy tries to lay a finger on me , he 'll end up staring at the moon ! ’ |
| 8 | Alcohol made these symptoms worse , she noticed , so she gave up drinking at the age of 20 . |
| 9 | He went on staring at the Hare-woman . |
| 10 | He went on staring at the television screen , not listening to the next item , but trying to work out the puzzle . |
| 11 | Dyson went on staring at the raindrops , saying nothing . |
| 12 | They will not wear their knuckles out knocking at the West 's door , so long as they feel it will be opened to them before too long . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I came down the steps of the Ashbery that morning and burst out laughing at the heat . |
| 15 | Well this is this is what I was trying to work out looking at the banking erm module that Sia , Sandra 's just given me could for the nine weeks right ? |
| 16 | He was looking skywards the way he did as a player : he would flick at the ball with the outside of his left foot while leaning back looking at the sky . |
| 17 | Dad did n't object to him nosing around but I wondered what Mum would have said if she 'd been home ; she was out cleaning at the fish shop . |
| 18 | Well , I was like the rest , I 'd got to help out standing at the stalls , like . |
| 19 | We burst out giggling at the sight of his bare bottom and we were still tittering when the door burst open and Mrs Taylor entered . |
| 20 | They say that you can easily spot the tourists in the Big Apple — they are the people walking around gazing at the sky , at the tops of the skyscrapers . |
| 21 | Betty Allsop , who had overheard the exchange , let out a hoot of laughter , while Maggie went on rubbing at the counter , but Rona 's reply was , ‘ That 'll be the day , even with a fellow like Billings . ’ |
| 22 | Ken Corduroy drove round to the Harrisons ' with an ingenious pool-cleaning device , a mechanical object that swam round scrubbing at the walls , he had ordered for them from England . |
| 23 | He pays the small amount and in fact I keep on meaning at the back of my brain to get hold of him and say has he been paying it . |
| 24 | He put one hand out ; she put out hers and gripped his forearm , looked up briefly and made a noise which might have been " thanks " , and went on working at the strap of her shoe . |
| 25 | In 1916 , when her daughter Carrie 's husband was killed at the Somme , she managed that too , looking after the three-year old my mother , so that Carrie could go on working at the mill . |