Example sentences of "being [verb] at [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of the corner of her eye , she caught the fact that they were being stared at with unveiled interest by most members of the group , the most curious of all , of course , being Mandy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Pre-war south-bound motorists may still remember , soon after leaving the Kingston by-pass , being stared at by supercilious llamas and ruminant bison from a field on the left which was the boundary of the Ezra estate . |
| 4 | That 's probably because I 'm being stared at by some bloody bla ginger haired git in the back row ! |
| 5 | When you are being spat at for doing your best in difficult circumstances , it is hard not to become spiky and defensive . |
| 6 | A few people stayed loyal to the traditional beer , but they risked being scoffed at by their more fashionable friends . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mandy 's lawyer Joe Wood said last night : ‘ Papers are presently being looked at with a view to proceedings being taken . ’ |
| 9 | Increased earnings through tourism and foreign investment were being looked at as a means to assist the economy . |
| 10 | All aspects of IT ( i.e. teaching and research , library and administrative ) are being looked at as a whole . |
| 11 | The athletes know them , and also know that on certain occasions they are being looked at for selection purposes . |
| 12 | Gene analysis also means that conditions such as cleft palate and cancer which are known to be caused by a number of social and environmental factors are being looked at for their ’ genetic component ’ . |
| 13 | Th it was being looked at at one point |
| 14 | What is being looked at in all case discussions is a sequence of focal points of which trainee consultants need to be made aware , to be able to highlight the interactional context of the difficulty . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Being looked at by a bloke that 's saying nothing . ’ |
| 18 | To insert them , or any other filmed material , required telecine transfer — literally the cine projection of the film onto a small screen being looked at by a television camera . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Victims of the black death — that 's one of the theories being looked at by archaeologists who 've dug up this mass grave . |
| 23 | Hazards for census collectors included being shot at with arrows by tribes in the Andaman islands and chased away from the homes of the super-rich elite as many as 15 times before securing an answer . |
| 24 | It was like being shot at by a sag-bag . |
| 25 | Suffolk Wildlife Trust director Derek Moore said there had been reports of rabbits and other creatures being shot at by four-wheel drive enthusiasts as the vehicles moved around the ness . |
| 26 | Later in the year the lantern of the Mid Swatch light buoy in the Thames Estuary was found peppered with holes made by shotgun pellets , while the Mucking No 5 buoy was extinguished after being shot at by an air rifle . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I do n't want to stand here all afternoon being laughed at like a cunt . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ I wonder why it is that you object to being laughed at by me , when you invite laughter in your stage show ? ’ |