Example sentences of "[adv] and [v-ing] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth did n't follow straight away ; she stood folding her napkin absently and staring down at it and wondering what she had learnt from that . |
| 2 | He could have been seven hundred miles away , his hand holding the side curtain open a little and staring out at the darkness . |
| 3 | At home she was very difficult to manage being given to severe tantrums involving screaming , followed by breath holding , throwing objects , overturning furniture , vomiting deliberately and lashing out at anyone within reach . |
| 4 | ‘ I need a swim , ’ he said with a rueful grin , levering himself upright and glancing down at her with a look which sent her senses spinning into chaos again . |
| 5 | I voiced my resentment openly , but my fatigue was confided only to my diary and to those of my friends who already knew that I was in the habit of getting up and wandering around at night . |