Example sentences of "poring over a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was poring over a chart in my room , working out a passage from Foulness Island to Aldeburgh , in Suffolk , when my door half opened and Sir Edmund looked in . |
| 2 | Manoeuvring down the narrow steps into the boat , and turning into the airy and deceptively spacious lounge , Birbeck was greeted by Branson and Al Clark , Virgin 's laconic press officer , poring over a mass of paperwork . |
| 3 | Aunt Ilsa was in the library ; she had a heavy cold at the time and I am tempted to say we discovered her poring over a map , but the inelegant truth is that she was searching the shelves for a misplaced book when we entered . |
| 4 | His foil , Mercutio , is given both lightness and intelligence by Paul McCleary , poring over a table to evoke the tiny fairyland of Queen Mab before shaping the speech outwards as she roams abroad . |
| 5 | Poring over a world atlas or 1:50,000 sheet gives me as much pleasure as actually visiting the places I dream about . |
| 6 | Clare Gittings suggests that one of the many reasons why embalming decreased during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries was distaste on the part of the nobility — not so much with the practice itself as with the thought of having so many surgeons , apothecaries and wax-chandlers poring over a body at any one time . |