Example sentences of "[noun] be [v-ing] at [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andy is looking at my bag . |
| 2 | She could tell that Dr Neil was looking at her most sceptically , although he was touching her so gently that the black fear which she had felt before she had fainted did not return — and pooh to his suspicions ! |
| 3 | When he went in , Marie was sitting at her desk . |
| 4 | Tension was plucking at his aged tendons like lute strings , mottling his complexion into an approximation of Sefcredian clay-lizard skin . |
| 5 | Later Delia Sutherland was sitting at her desk under a fluorescent tube in the estate office . |
| 6 | David was smiling at her happiness . |
| 7 | His uncle 's axe was striking at his head . |
| 8 | The wind was tugging at her hair , the setting sun turning it to false and fleeting gold . |
| 9 | Catalina said her husband 's resignation was first discussed with John Major while he and Norma were holidaying at their mountain home near Madrid . |
| 10 | If you 've reached this end of Gardom 's picking at its quiet and subtle fruits en route , then an amble back along the cliff top path is a fine way to end a day at this land that time nearly , but not quite , forgot . |
| 11 | Mrs Kizza is working at her ancient treadle sewing-machine , making busuutis , the traditional Ugandan dress for women . |
| 12 | Now the council is looking at its options . |
| 13 | There is a well known Peanuts cartoon by Charles Schulz in which a girl is sitting at her school desk querying the C-grade she 's been given for her ‘ sculpture ’ made from a coat-hanger . |
| 14 | In London , Dougal Munro was working at his desk when Jack Carter came in . |
| 15 | She told Susan Coltman the friendship had started while Paula was living with her parents and Gilfoyle was staying at their new home in Grafton Drive , Upton , as it was being renovated . |
| 16 | She told Susan Coltman the friendship had started while Paula was living with her parents and Gilfoyle was staying at their new home in Grafton Drive , Upton , as it was being renovated . |
| 17 | That was something that Boaz did , there when Ruth was lying at his feet . |
| 18 | The judge was looking at his papers , and said , still looking down , ‘ I believe you want to adopt this little girl . |
| 19 | One night in London , nearly a year later , a servant girl was sitting at her bedroom window , looking out at the moonlit street . |
| 20 | The cyclist 's eldest child was peforming at his school 's nativity play and was led off the stage to be told of his father 's death . |
| 21 | Both dogs were straining at their chains , Rosie trampling her five pups and drooling at the mouth , Lady pawing the air with her front feet in a begging gesture . |
| 22 | While the booksellers were looking at his books he would quietly nick a few of theirs to sell to another shop . |
| 23 | Amid the boy 's triple obsession with sex , cricket and poetry , incidents prefigure insurgent communal hatreds , from Roshan 's ambivalence at kissing the pok-tainted lips of a Christian to a Hindu teacher 's beating at her brothers ' hands for her affair with the Muslim schoolboy . |
| 24 | A waiter was hovering at his shoulder . |
| 25 | When it rained , she thought nature was crying at her weakness , and when the midnight wind blew she thought nature was angry with her . |
| 26 | Silvia was glancing at her watch . |
| 27 | Losses reached a peak during the decade 1881–91 when the net figure approached 85,000 per annum , just as the whole population was growing at its maximum absolute rate ( 350,000 per annum ) . |
| 28 | Hans was staring at his father wide-eyed . |
| 29 | Now the buds are blossoming and the cricketing itch is gnawing at our stomachs . |
| 30 | A chauffeur driven limosine was waiting at her home near Banbury to whisk Betty , her new outfit , and just a few of her many nearest and dearest to the Palace for the big day . |