Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [adv] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Stormtex outer gives the jacket a fair amount of shower and wind protection ; excellent for hillwalking and hanging about at the bottom of climbs . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | With its twin staircases and end steps , a Dreadnought was capable of loading and unloading simultaneously at a terminus . |
| 4 | I called out that we were ready , but there was no answer , and when I returned to the bedroom I found her lying back full length on the bed , her eyes open and gazing up at the ceiling with that same vacant stare . |
| 5 | Laura sighed , leaning back on the hard bench and gazing up at the overcast sky . |
| 6 | Of course she could , she told herself , clenching her fists and gazing unseeingly at the distant mountain-tops . |
| 7 | The gulls were in good voice , however , soaring and shrieking overhead in a fickle , shifting breeze , and Harry was surprised how contented if not downright happy he felt , sitting in the shelter nearest the clock and gazing out at the white horses in the bay . |
| 8 | Now he must go away and I dare say I shall never see him again , ’ Joan said woefully , lagging behind despite Anne 's grumbles and gazing down at the ring . |
| 9 | I was standing motionless by the desk , and gazing vacantly at the letter , when I heard some footsteps outside the door . |
| 10 | And in fact prices would seem now to be levelling off somewhat throughout the country , slowing down in the North and levelling off at the current levels in the South . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She 'd got the job after being made redundant and signing on at the job centre . |
| 14 | We 'll make a hypothetical traverse from Easter Island on the East Pacific Rise ( an oceanic ridge , remember ) right across South America as far as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge , so we 'll be starting at one plate margin , crossing a second and ending up at a third , each of them , of course , marked by a major belt of seismic activity [ see Fig. 2 ] . |
| 15 | On the academic site , detailed tephrachronology makes it possible to study patterns in the behaviour of volcanoes — the magma erupted from one volcano may become steadily more acid , or it may show cyclical changes , or it may even vary consistently during each eruption , starting off fairly basic and ending up at the close of the eruption much more acid . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ A case for galoshes , ’ remarked the Substitute , tossing a cigar end out of the jeep and looking around at the steam rising slowly from the wet earth . |
| 18 | I was on my third cup of coffee and looking around at the other coolies when I saw a familiar blue overcoat coming through the door from the street . |
| 19 | But lying there beside her , listening to the susurration of the tide and looking up at the sky through a haze of grasses he was filled , not with post-coital sadness , but with an agreeable languor as if the long-committed Sunday afternoon still stretched ahead of them . |
| 20 | ‘ So I 've heard , ’ answered George , rolling onto his back and looking up at the sky , while he chewed a stalk of grass . |
| 21 | And I 'd stand there , easing my aching back , and looking up at the stars . |
| 22 | ‘ I wonder where Barbs is ? ’ said Tim , stopping and looking up at the bedroom windows . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh ! ’ he said , stopping the car and looking hurriedly at a map . |
| 25 | Sammy stood on the mat shaking his fur by the open door and looking out at the sheets of rain that were now whipping across the graveyard . |
| 26 | Now I find I 'm getting " inspired top-off-the-brain " signals and ideas while travelling in an aeroplane — at the window and looking out at the snowy cotton-wool cloud land ( no artificial stimulants ! ) . |
| 27 | No other words were needed and he stood , walking to the window and looking out at the courtyard that was bathed in sunlight . |
| 28 | I remember standing at the back of The Lyceum and looking down at the crowd . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm glad for you , ’ Jenna snapped , standing and looking down at the angry face . |
| 30 | 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 . |