Example sentences of "[v-ing] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Whilst they fished I explored the shores , haunting the hides , marvelling at the variety of bird , plant and animal life . |
| 3 | But Hārkini just touched it gently all over , marvelling at the tiny , perfect form . |
| 4 | She still retained her English habit of noting each day 's weather , always expecting changes , marvelling at the hot sunny days which followed one after the other , almost with monotony . |
| 5 | JOHN Dunlop was left marvelling at the difference a day makes when Eurolink Thunder and Captain Horatius doubled up for him at Kempton yesterday . |
| 6 | Walking through her kitchen and cutting gardens at break-neck speed , marvelling at the weedless beds , and pyramids of purple clematis , the imposing topiary ( ‘ Russell [ Page ] used to tell me , ‘ Let them get fluffy and fabulous ’ ’ ) , Mrs Guest is in full flood : ‘ Oh , those chipmunks are wrecking my garden , ’ she declares , straightening a single toppled plant in an acreage of formidable order , and tugging nimbly at a lone weed . |
| 7 | Visitors marvelling at the perfection of work at the Woodworker Show . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He turned to look at her , marvelling at the perfection of her body and the animal passion he had found in her . |
| 10 | They marched past it , back and forth , marvelling at the way they were drawn towards it . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's amazing , ’ she said , as much to herself as anyone else , marvelling at the beauty surrounding her . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Athelstan sat looking at her in wonderment , constantly marvelling at the difference in women , contrasting this hag to the beauty of Lady Isabella . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | Gratefully Gina covered her nakedness , marvelling at the strange circumstances in which she found herself . |
| 18 | Sufficiently stoned but not unreasonably so , we stand before the bathroom mirror , marvelling at the crisp clean surfaces of ourselves and one another . |
| 19 | Passing the township , both brakes jammed on , I slither and judder down the newly regravelled surface , hoping for something to pass and pick me up , but also marvelling at the open splendour of the valley scenery which surprises me afresh every time I look . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Cornelius was stumbling along behind , marvelling at the Edinburgh Mercury . |
| 22 | ‘ When he reported your sister missing ‘ ’ McLeish confirmed , leaping at the opening . |
| 23 | The dog , leaping at the wire , snarling its frustration , frightened him . |
| 24 | Interest paid was down from £3.1m to £1.2m and gearing at the year-end was 9 per cent . |
| 25 | But the local population was soon assembling at the stations to use the train for its own purposes . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Opening at the Brixton Academy , the tour visited the most gigantic venues in the south before moving slowly northwards and back again to climax at the ultra-prestigious Royal Albert Hall . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | The exhibition opening at the Hayward Gallery towards the end of this month ( 21 May-2 August ) is the most significant presentation of the art of Magritte since the survey mounted for the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 1978–79 . |
| 30 | The Bund will therefore bear the responsibility for the DM1 million ( £357,000 ; $714,000 ) insurance premium for the exhibition opening at the Bonn Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle on 16 October , ‘ Great Collections I : The Museum of Modern Art , New York , From Cézanne to Pollock ’ ( until 10 January 1993 ) . |