Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's my fault , ’ he said later when she was sitting up , her eyes gazing blankly at the opposite wall . |
| 2 | Father Barnes was sitting bolt upright on his chair , his eyes staring ahead at the gleaming curve of the apse , his body taut and contracted , like that of a patient expecting pain , willing himself to endure . |
| 3 | She leapt to her feet mopping furiously at the small wet patch on her skirt . |
| 4 | One of the earliest documented encounters took place in AD 109 when a dolphin befriended a boy swimming offshore at the Roman settlement of Hippo in northern Africa , and thereafter returned day after day to play with other children , who slowly overcame their initial fear . |
| 5 | And she saw old Billy , his toothless gums mumbling away at the mashed-up food she spooned into his mouth . |
| 6 | Meanwhile Ali Christie was sitting in the Pavilion Gallery in Brook Street staring morosely at the gilt-framed picture of his wife on the desk . |
| 7 | The young German eventually got in front with seven laps remaining when Senna 's McLaren appeared to develop a technical problem , Schumacher squeezing past at the final hairpin . |
| 8 | The typhoon shelters at Aberdeen and Mong Kok start to fill with craft , their prudent masters and owners looking uneasily at the eastern sky as it blackens and darkens , and as the wind begins to sing in the telephone wires , the unsecured edges of roofs begin to flap and creak , and the streets are busy with flying litter , and dust . |
| 9 | I 'm the sort of fellow who , after a hard day slogging away at the National Theatre , goes home and dips into a much-treasured , well-thumbed copy of Pope or Pepys . |
| 10 | Oates ( 1985 ) , among others , offers some counter-arguments and finds the empirical evidence lacking both at the international level and in the state-local sectors in the USA . |
| 11 | I could see the neighbours looking curiously at the big box he had with him . |
| 12 | His stride shortened ; his legs felt leaden ; his breathing , till now perceptible only in a slight flaring of the nostrils , became harsh and ragged , his mouth wide open , his teeth biting desperately at the intangible air . |
| 13 | He stood scowling out , fat fingers scratching idly at the blue stubble on his chin . |
| 14 | At that time there was only one other customer , an old man standing quietly at the far end , near the door . |
| 15 | As a financial centre with an open economy , as a trade intersection between Europe and the Middle East with a lucrative port in its capital , as a comparatively ‘ free ’ nation amid the dictatorships of the Arab world , Lebanon was to be blessed with the indulgence of both East and West , its modern-day caravanserais arriving hourly at the new international airport at Khalde . |
| 16 | The simplest involves displaying a large eye-spot marking somewhere at the rear end of the body . |