Example sentences of "poring over [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The place was in its usual chaotic state with people coming and going , discussing racing form or poring over maps . |
| 2 | For planning , we spent long evenings poring over maps . |
| 3 | Both of them poring over maps and guide books , planning the itinerary of every marvellous day . |
| 4 | What would he be now if he had become , say , a civil servant allotting housing finance , or a policeman , poring over bits of hair and skin and thumbball prints ? |
| 5 | It felt absurd that we should be indoors poring over papers when we might have been out there , basking in dappled sunlight , bathing in the lake . |
| 6 | Marjorie and Heather spent hours poring over cookery-books , which seemed to me a strange occupation for Oxford graduates , especially in the face of wartime rationing ; but perhaps it was a matter of the fox and the grapes , for I myself had not acquired any culinary skill . |
| 7 | Moreover it was widely and probably correctly felt that good diplomats were formed by experience rather than by study , by mixing in good society and watching negotiations in progress rather than by poring over documents in archives . |
| 8 | We were poring over plans |
| 9 | For him , after the Venlo fiasco , being a British agent meant reading newspapers in Swedish , Danish and Norwegian , studying reports , poring over decodes , analysing situations . |
| 10 | You 'll be fine by the time Jim and Ellis turn up and you 'll have a nice evening poring over clues . |
| 11 | Aunt Bella sat at the table , poring over catalogues , surveying the accounts , calculating . |
| 12 | The water was cool and refreshing ; Melissa found it a relief to stretch and exercise her limbs after the hours spent poring over books . |
| 13 | Perhaps a shabby clerical type like myself , wizened with poring over books , or a small time salesman , roving the country with hopeful samples , not this large , wild , peremptory man with a laugh that filled the stairwell . |