Example sentences of "being [verb] at [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps it was n't as bad as it looked , and in any case one could n't go on sitting here , being stared at by the whole of St Petrock's-on-Sea while Chignell waved smelling salts under one 's nose . |
| 2 | Meeting Steve the stamp man from Surbiton or Billy from the back of beyond or travelling around attending street parties and generally being gawped at by the Press and the populace is not my idea of whooping it up . |
| 3 | That the audition process was one that examined you totally — your private behaviour as well as your theatrical ability , the two feeding into each other to find a way to suit the requirements of the part and the particular aspects that were being looked at by the director , Michael Blakemore . |
| 4 | The A-level is also being looked at by the School Examinations and Assessment Council , but ideas are in still in the very early stages . |
| 5 | So an interval of 10 years will have gone by without his situation being looked at by the local review committee or the parole board . |
| 6 | As long ago as the 1960s the possibility of this form of cursor control was being looked at by the Stanford Research Institute in California and the first mouse was patented in 1970 . |
| 7 | On leaving the Service in August 1935 he spent several months looking around and also being looked at by the family of the lovely Ly , his Swiss wife , a scrutiny which was reciprocated when Ly had in turn , to be looked at by the swarm of Bennetts in Brisbane , Australia . |
| 8 | For days afterwards , he was unable to make a telephone call without imagining he was being laughed at on the other end of the line . |
| 9 | People were tiring of old-style ‘ workerist ’ ultra-left politics and standing at factory gates being laughed at by the very workers they were supposed to be leading to the new Jerusalem . |
| 10 | Both Tom Rooney and Dan Brady realized that they were being followed at about the same time . |
| 11 | American ( and , to a lesser extent , British ) criticism has tended in the past to be less hierarchical than Italian and at the same time more alert to very minute differences in the type of product and the type of consumer being aimed at by the literary market . |
| 12 | Nothing unusual there ; comedians are used to being shouted at by the audience . |