Example sentences of "[v-ing] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Gratefully Gina covered her nakedness , marvelling at the strange circumstances in which she found herself . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But Hārkini just touched it gently all over , marvelling at the tiny , perfect form . |
| 5 | Sufficiently stoned but not unreasonably so , we stand before the bathroom mirror , marvelling at the crisp clean surfaces of ourselves and one another . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A loud banging at the front door stopped both of them in their tracks . |
| 8 | Still fuming at the insensitive arrogance of the man she turned and left the office . |
| 9 | Everybody reacted as one , condemning this nonsense and laughing at the bare-faced cheek of it . |
| 10 | She could see her father , foolish in his pride , and the rich gentleman of her mother 's imagination laughing at the poor Durbeyfield family . |
| 11 | Was he laughing at the absurd idea of being an old fogey ? |
| 12 | The sky clears in the childbirth sequence because of Shatov 's sublime murmurings about the arrival of a new human being , but also because the midwife has her sleeves rolled up , because she is attacking a difficult and strenuous professional job , organizing essentials , masterminding the whole exercise , scolding Marie Shatov who allowed Shatov to get between her and the family in which she was a governess ‘ with the egotistical object of marrying you , laughing at the distraught husband on his knees unable either to bear the sound or block his ears before the birth ; and when all is tidied up , ‘ after some pleasant–es about ‘ the happy couple' ’ which were not without a touch of contempt and superciliousness , she went away as well satisfied as before . ’ |
| 13 | For here his father was , sitting down beside him , hugging and kissing him , taking his hand again and laughing at the silly terrors his little game had aroused in his son . |
| 14 | When he shows a film or summat his room 's like a little cinema — you know , people sitting round watching the telly in the dark , and smoking and laughing at the funny bits and that . |
| 15 | Crazy funnyman Freddie Starr , one of Butlin 's most popular Holiday World entertainers , will keep you laughing at the big star weekend , Friday , October 30 , to Monday , November 2 . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're very kind , ’ said Conway , laughing at the old man . |
| 17 | Like Hutton in bygone times , Stewart seemed galvanised by the disasters occurring at the other end , but was never either intimidated into strokelessness or tempted into a reckless rescue bid , for such an endeavour against this bowling would have been futile . |
| 18 | Changes in proposed greenbelt boundaries affecting a given area , and occurring at the consultative draft stage of local plans and or pre-map stage and the formal deposit of those plans , and or between the deposit copies and proposals subsequently issued by county and local planning authorities by way of desired changes to deposit copies , militate against , and may totally inhibit in relation to that area , emergence within the meaning of the national doctrine most recently propagated in paragraph er within erm paragraph thirty two of the revised version of P P G number One . |
| 19 | It is important to realize then that our symptoms , produced in response to stress , are not solely based upon the stress occurring at the given time , but upon all the stress accumulated in our stress glass over time . |
| 20 | Mr. Lorrimer 's voice , frail and querulous , was bleating at the other end . |
| 21 | Alex James in the 1930s had not been averse to appearing at the odd night-club , but Best 's moves were tracked by a posse of desperate journalists as he went from bed to boutique , from discothèque to dressing-room . |
| 22 | They can multiply faster than the chromosomes , because , when they do move , a copy is left behind at the old site as well as a new copy appearing at the new one . |
| 23 | Crazy Ibrahim bouncing off the walls , appearing at the Lebanese Embassy , and you apparently do n't give a damn . |
| 24 | A review by M.S.P. in the Cape Times ( 30 September 1944 ) of the University 's Junior Ballet appearing at the Little Theatre remarked on his ‘ debut in Cape Town ballet , and a very impressive one too ’ as Pierrot in St Valentine 's Night . |
| 25 | Well they 're appearing at the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham tonight in concert , and then a week on Friday , November the twelfth they 're at the Ritz at Lincoln so welcome back . |
| 26 | ‘ Mornin' , ’ said Tom , appearing at the back door . |
| 27 | The different frequencies of light are what the human eye sees as different colors , with the lowest frequencies appearing at the red end of the spectrum and the highest frequencies at the blue end . |
| 28 | Schizophrenic Clive Wells was appearing at the Old Bailey accused of killing a 63-year-old man when he gave specialist nurses the slip . |
| 29 | Half seven the Hare and Hounds at Warsop and District Camera Club they 're meeting at the Hare and Hounds pub in Warsop and tonight they have a competition Slides in Action and seven thirty Slimmers Clubs U K are meeting at the Age Concern Centre Street in Beeston and seven thirty as well until eight thirty a mixed ability aerobics class is on in the gymnasium of Rainworth Recreation Centre that 's one fifty there and Joe Walker Zydeco Band direct from Louisiana are appearing at the Old Vic on Fletchergate at Nottingham tonight at half seven six pounds the tickets there four pounds concessions and they 're available on the door . |
| 30 | His plan was based on the marine lieutenant landing at the Old Quay slipway in the North Harbour and creating a diversion there , while Jones himself landed , undetected it was hoped , on the south foreshore , put the battery there out of action and then , passing round the town , knocked out the North Battery , before joining up with the other party to burn the shipping in both harbours . |