Example sentences of "[verb] [pos pn] [noun] [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leith could feel her anger straining at the leash at his sarcastic comment , but she made enormous efforts to stay cool . |
| 2 | Which the authorities could not understand , because everyone knew that at lunchtime Mr Wolski always went down to the benches by the Cages and ate his sandwiches looking at the eagles . |
| 3 | MAXIM Vengerov dazzled everyone who heard his winning playing at the 1990 Carl Flesch Violin Competition in London . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , I heard your dog scratching at the door , so I came to see what the matter was . |
| 5 | The burglars , often children , keep their victim talking at the front door while an accomplice gets into the house and grabs what he can . |
| 6 | Ace felt her pulse racing at the sight . |
| 7 | She looked round and saw her sister standing at the window , gazing out . |
| 8 | Mrs Jones claims she saw her ex-husband crouching at the foot of the bed with a makeshift gas chamber … a box fixed to a length of piping . |
| 9 | She saw her mother sitting at the table , with a pen and some writing paper in front of her . |
| 10 | He used to swear blind he saw his mother standing at the end of the bed . |
| 11 | Often at this time of day , when he felt the day 's journey should be ending or reaching a destination , but knowing that it was not , knowing that what he was looking for probably happened after everybody else had gone home , he wished that he could end his days walking at the edge of a sea or a lake so big that you could n't see its other shore . |
| 12 | for example , the manual labourer is unlikely to take up an energetic hobby such as cycling and he is likely to spend his holidays relaxing at the seaside rather than walking in the mountains . |
| 13 | An official report by the National Human Rights Commission accused Morán of ignoring repeated requests from the local federal police to stop his soldiers firing at the agents who were trying to intercept an aircraft later discovered to be carrying some 360 kg of cocaine from Colombia to Mexico . |
| 14 | Quit wasting your time looking at the sky . ’ |
| 15 | The smith and his sister , equally brawny , set their apprentice sweating at the bellows of the forge , to repair weapons , ship 's fittings , armour . |
| 16 | And her fellow taxpayers did n't find their sovereign queueing at a cubby-hole for her £17.40 first-class ticket . |