Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first Russian to mount the wall fell at once to a bullet from one of Thiercelin 's men , but now a slavonic deluge swamped the wall in a wave of green and grey , bayonets fixed , overran the Frenchmen on the terrace and began smashing at the door . |
| 2 | Without a word , Ted climbed out of the car and began pulling at the hedgerow . |
| 3 | He does n't come up to the desk straightaway , but gives me a nod and starts looking at the flowers , really closely , like he really knew about them . |
| 4 | Harry switched off the engine and sat staring at the big , grey , stone-built mansion with a sense of shock . |
| 5 | Lowell returned to the cottage and stood looking at the portrait of Rose . |
| 6 | He went back to the piano and sat looking at the keys — afraid to play . |
| 7 | Mr Hartley 's mother Isabel said : ‘ He often has barbecues and goes swimming at the river when it 's hot . ’ |
| 8 | At a meal have a glass of water as well as wine and keep sipping at the water so that it is not your wine glass which is being constantly refilled . |
| 9 | He dropped my wrists and began picking at the bread , rolling bits of it into little grey balls . |
| 10 | When he was nine he read Hamlet , no doubt a copy from his father 's bookshop , and , as he told Mrs Thrale later , when he came to the ghost scene he left the kitchen fireside and stood reading at the street door in Lichfield in order to ‘ have people about ’ . |
| 11 | For the sake of appearances , he picked up another brush and began swatting at the sleeves and lapels of his suit . |
| 12 | One day just below their balcony a man had got out of his car and gone to the car in front and opened that car 's door and started shouting at the man inside , and then the car behind had started hooting and others had joined in . |
| 13 | She pulled into her drive and sat looking at the house . |
| 14 | The detour was to Holmstroyd and involved stopping at the jetty . |
| 15 | Donna ordered brandy from the steward and sat gazing at the window of the train . |
| 16 | At once he ran to the house and began scratching at the door . |
| 17 | The marines were acting as extras and kept jeering at the Hollywood phoneys . |
| 18 | Wycliffe felt like patting him on the head , but he thanked him and saw him off with his samples , then he went back to his little office and sat staring at the wall . |
| 19 | Charlie now found himself in front and began firing at the Germans as their heads popped up from behind the dug-outs . |
| 20 | The next time he left the digging he kept away from Fiver and sat looking at the bank , as though entirely concerned with the work . |