Example sentences of "[prep] them [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the contact turned into an embrace without either of them looking at the other or talking , they just put their arms around each other . |
| 2 | ‘ The piste is like this , ’ said one of them kicking at the sand . |
| 3 | On opening the door , Derek saw two of them drinking at a table . |
| 4 | The first dazed rabbits came out ; two of them bleeding at the nose , looking otherwise unharmed but staggering , almost -falling . |
| 5 | His companions were both in their forties , one of them greying at the temples , a squat , powerfully built man ; the other was a tall gangling individual with deep set eyes which remained fixed on Hitch the whole time . |
| 6 | Her father and mother were sitting tensely on the sofa , Omi at the table , upright , disdain on her fine features , Bodo , huge against the wall , and all of them staring at the stubby , shabby , ash-stained figure of Marx , blinking through his red eyes at the document and reading aloud in an artificially solemn voice , practised in legal jargon and with which he , no doubt , had read out a hundred , a thousand , such documents . |
| 7 | An antediluvian handful of hon. Members , many of them retiring at the next election , are not keen on these matters , but they are a diminishing and insignificant number . |
| 8 | Standing behind them looking at the steaming urn on the barrow , I felt worse than hungover ; it was a mixture of too little sleep , being hot and unwashed , completely unaware of what was going on , and worst , I was hungry . |
| 9 | Erm , erm , they go to see , they , first of all it starts with them looking at a notice board with the notice on it . |