Example sentences of "[v-ing] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or there was the horse-racing , cricket or football in the parkland , a visit to the skating-rink , or simply marvelling at the mixture of bravura , vulgarity and confidence with which the Victorians had dropped this gigantic testament to British economic expansion into what were then the sleepy rural outskirts of the fast-expanding city . |
| 2 | On evening walks down Loreto , a lane of high stone walls , trying to decide on a restaurant , I would stop and run my hands over the ashlars , marvelling at the purity of each one as I have marvelled at the completeness of a sculpture by Brancusi ; each of them so tightly locked together that I found it impossible to fit a fingernail between them . |
| 3 | Their behaviour was at times appalling ; when little they would spend long stretches of each class on the floor behind the benches , playing with bits of mercury , pricking it with needles and pen nibs , watching it slip into the coarse splintery cracks of the dusty floorboards , and forcing it out again , marvelling at the way it shrugged the dirt off its rounded shoulders . |
| 4 | They marched past it , back and forth , marvelling at the way they were drawn towards it . |
| 5 | Whilst they fished I explored the shores , haunting the hides , marvelling at the variety of bird , plant and animal life . |
| 6 | John Coffin walked away , marvelling at the strangeness of life which made him now mourn a petty criminal whom he had not liked and whom no one had appeared to love , and who might , just possibly , have also poisoned three people . |
| 7 | She went closer to the walls , marvelling at the detail : the starfish flung up on the painted sand , the panting dog , the discarded bucket and spade , the bottle of sun oil . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sure it is n't as bad as that , ’ said Greg , who was n't who was , in fact , marvelling at the effect of three weeks of Viola , and wondering whether there could n't be more to it than just that . |
| 9 | Visitors marvelling at the perfection of work at the Woodworker Show . |
| 10 | He turned to look at her , marvelling at the perfection of her body and the animal passion he had found in her . |
| 11 | At 5.45 Lydia walked down the path to the car , marvelling at the power which people like Betty could wield merely by threatening to sulk . |
| 12 | JOHN Dunlop was left marvelling at the difference a day makes when Eurolink Thunder and Captain Horatius doubled up for him at Kempton yesterday . |
| 13 | Athelstan sat looking at her in wonderment , constantly marvelling at the difference in women , contrasting this hag to the beauty of Lady Isabella . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's amazing , ’ she said , as much to herself as anyone else , marvelling at the beauty surrounding her . |
| 15 | ‘ When he reported your sister missing ‘ ’ McLeish confirmed , leaping at the opening . |
| 16 | The dog , leaping at the wire , snarling its frustration , frightened him . |
| 17 | Interest paid was down from £3.1m to £1.2m and gearing at the year-end was 9 per cent . |
| 18 | ‘ Nursery Rhymes : Etchings by Paula Rego ’ is a new South Bank Centre touring exhibition , opening at the School of Art & Design in Falmouth , and continuing until 10 February . |
| 19 | Then some grass , and a dark green van , and doors opening at the back of it , and grey flat people moving in a white square . |
| 20 | There would be a two-week run at the Theatre Royal , Norwich , before opening at the Prince of Wales Theatre on 23 September 1976 . |
| 21 | Then she did get me an appointment with this new clinic that was opening at the hospital , but it was too late . |
| 22 | This will be followed by a share opening at the bank 's Redcar branch on March 12 . |
| 23 | So this year I 'm doing just one new production and I 'm really glad we 're opening at the Tramway . |
| 24 | She paused to sip her tea , and Ella , fuming at the delay , began to wonder if that were all Dotty would say . |
| 25 | ‘ Wenner ’ , recalls Marcuson , ‘ was fuming at the bit . |
| 26 | It may well appear to be somewhat deserted at first , but please do n't forget that these fish will grow quite large , and fast , so the lack of crowding at the start will help towards the fish 's comfort , a point which we must never fail to overlook . |
| 27 | Without a word the South African began to scoop up the other twenty-four piles and tip them one by one into a stout canvas bag with drawstring at the top . |
| 28 | In view of the terms in which he was later to express his enthusiasm for Wagner , it is interesting to note what it was that first seriously attracted him : nor the morbid metaphysical-flavoured world of romance , the hypnotic emotional intensity and musical " modernity " of Tristan , representing at the time , the high point of Wagner 's most distinctive line of development ; nor indeed the available parts of the similarly " modern " , but emotionally more robust , Ring ; rather , the musically " reactionary " Meistersinger that deferred to traditional expectations of harmony , tonality and musical organization and depicted through the medium of " healthy " comic opera the successful struggle of artistic genius against stifling Hanslickian convention . |
| 29 | During the summer we had serious problems , we had a report on children homes which erm which y'know which pointed out a few things y'know that had n't been doing well , mainly , mainly in defence of erm because they did put in a lot of effort into fostering y'know and the children homes y'know need , as Councillor would y'know will , they did a very good job actually representing at the time . |
| 30 | NOW YOU 'VE stopped laughing at the idea of Kevin Costner in tights , you can have a chuckle at the cast rumoured to be lined up for his Robin Hood movie Prince Of Thieves — Danny DeVito ( above ) as Friar Tuck , either Patsy Kensit , Emily Lloyd or Imogen Stubbs as Maid Marian and as Robin 's big buddy Little John , John Goodman , who is reported to have been paid $750,000 just to stay interested in playing Fred Flintstone while the producers look for a script |