Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [noun sg] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I plucked one of the torches from the wall and crouched down , wrinkling my nose at the mild sour odour . |
| 2 | They did n't appear to mind me playing a double game , allying with each in turn , then becoming their opponent at the next round . |
| 3 | Everything I 've said about the training of Dawn might lead you to think it 's just a question of patience and keeping her weight at the right level , but there really is much more to it than that . |
| 4 | Maggie was stabbing her finger at the different plates on the table , and her aunt wagged her head and pursed her lips before she said , flatly , ‘ I 'm courting one of the airmen ; he comes to Donald 's farm . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Kick me again , ’ said Georgiades , keeping his voice at the gentle , conversational level , ‘ and I will kick your balls so hard that they will fly out of your backside . ’ |
| 6 | THE former chairman of the GLC 's Police Committee and member of Ken Livingstone 's municipal revolutionary guard , Boateng , 40 , has risen rapidly since gaining his seat at the last election . |
| 7 | Realising its error at the last minute , the magazine just managed to insert a back-page acknowledgement of its gaffe but not to correct the offending caption . |
| 8 | Lips compressed into a thin line of tension , she strode along the corridor and into her office , wrinkling her nose at the musty smell of stale air . |
| 9 | She spent £3,000 on driving lessons over four years before passing her test at the 29th attempt . |
| 10 | The leader of the council , Robert Gould , said later he accepted that the 1.5 per cent pay increase was totally unrealistic , but said the unions should be directing their anger at the Conservative Government , which was to blame for the situation . |
| 11 | It seemed to Charles , waiting his turn at the public telephone box on the corner by his billet , that they were never going to be able to meet again . |
| 12 | Gozitan legend says that a giantess built the temples single-handed , suckling her baby at the same time . |
| 13 | Pointing her finger at the misplaced moral fervour of the WSPU and the LNA , she claimed that these ‘ dabblers in debauchery ’ had set middle-class women on the rampage against an evil they knew nothing about . |
| 14 | On the other side of the double row of barbed wire a guard was standing still holding his rifle at the ready . |
| 15 | Jacques Devraux followed them , holding his rifle at the ready until he was certain the big animal was dead . |
| 16 | Male model Hay , 22 , only escaped death by moving his head at the critical moment . |
| 17 | And Goldberg , pushing the hair out of his eyes and wiping his face at the same time with his sleeve , pushed away the typewriter , pulled the pad towards him , seized the felt-tip pen , and wrote : He later admitted that he had merely said between seventeen and eighteen as a manner of speaking . |
| 18 | He can turn his head away from the screams , the pleas , the heart-rending shouts that split the night air — suffering human beings screeching their injustice at the outside world . |
| 19 | and she was having her drink at the same time |
| 20 | Yesterday , when the Government were defending their postition at the United Nations in Geneva on interrogation procedures and denying that anything untoward was happening , settlements were being awarded in Belfast courts to people who had claimed that they had been assaulted in just those circumstances . |
| 21 | He sat in the 1835–7 Parliament as member for Harwich and assistant whip , losing his seat at the next general election . |
| 22 | I could have vomited with fear and had difficulty controlling my breathing at the silent horrors my master described . |
| 23 | Max has earned an enviable reputation as a teacher and Club specialists , learning his craft at the prestigious Southport and Ainsdale Golf Club . |
| 24 | Uttering a low , violent oath , he grabbed Isabel 's arm and yanked her behind him , drawing his sword at the same time . |
| 25 | An applicant for such a grant requires to lodge with his application a plan of the premises to which the application relates and to display a notice intimating his application at the proposed premises ( subss. ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) ) . |
| 26 | Making her debut at the Royal National Theatre in February , Frances Barber stars as a hotel manageress in Richard Eyre 's revival of the Tennessee Williams classic , The Night Of The Iguana . |
| 27 | WALES , the Soviet Union and West Germany are three new nations making their debut at the 15th Hong Kong Sevens , to be staged from 31 March to 1 April next year . |
| 28 | Six Welsh officials and 10 players made the trip , many changing their mind at the last minute . |
| 29 | Life showing its arse at the universal party . ’ |
| 30 | It made him laugh to see her standing there , shaking her fist at the departing van . |