Example sentences of "[det] [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The six competitors sat at the tea tables , together but strangely separate — each gazing at her hands or off into the distance , and never at one another . |
| 2 | If you split the firm up you will have a lot of small firms each producing at higher average cost , a waste of society 's resources . |
| 3 | But there was little understanding at the time of how much work was required to develop high-quality screenplays . |
| 4 | The head deals with the first , class teachers with the second , and there is little blurring at the edges . |
| 5 | The new money will still leave gearing at 60 per cent , but Mr Scott says the company will be happy with that level of debt , given that gearing at other transport groups can be as high as 90 per cent . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , yes , ’ she said smiling , half laughing at him . |
| 7 | He was still half laughing at her . |
| 8 | Susan had no sooner sat down than there was another knocking at the door . |
| 9 | Beasant 's goalkeeping spared Chelsea another drubbing at Crystal Palace on Boxing Day and so long as their strikers remain on target they could get a decent result today . |
| 10 | The dry slope was dotted with rabbits — some nibbling at the thin grass near their holes , others pushing farther down to look for dandelions or perhaps a cowslip that the rest had missed . |
| 11 | You ai n't half looking at me ai n't you ? |
| 12 | And what was this squatting at the side of the road ? |
| 13 | But it took some getting at , the core of the physical jungle , the dark and deepest recess of organic shame . |
| 14 | The other still held the wicked-looking Mauser which rested casually beside him , half pointing at me . |
| 15 | She lowered her voice , half glancing at Gilbert , ‘ I am doing all I can , here , of course . |
| 16 | A gold ring from Kalyvia shows a naked woman pulling down a bough of the sacred tree and another worshipping at a boulder . |
| 17 | She peered out into the office , winding down now at the end of the first day : at the two constables scribbling notes at their desk , at another sitting at the HOLMES computer , at a WPC glancing through the actions book . |
| 18 | With a deep breath , she opened her bedroom door to see her sister-in-law half standing , half crouching at the top of the stairs , the perspiring pallor of her face telling its own alarming story . |
| 19 | You could n't buy all this working at Lyons bakery or the Black Cat factory . |
| 20 | He does n't look at your face they 're like that looking at her , well I hate that . |
| 21 | That looking at a bald head , a stupid girl , and something else . |
| 22 | Scientists working in a team , each looking at a separate facet of a problem , may well throw light on details , but they are no more likely to make fundamental discoveries than monkeys with typewriters . |
| 23 | Well , if death can ever be glamorous , that , I suppose , is the glamorous side of war casualties , but I think we need to spend the rest of our time very much looking at what it was like for the ordinary people of St Aldate's. erm And here , I apologise for producing a modern slide of Carfax , but I think just to remind you that we are talking about a very busy crowded city area , and erm about a city whose whole aspect was changing during the war . |
| 24 | ‘ E was n't 'alf lookin' at me . |
| 25 | Such niggling at athletes may be part of some psychological technique that Frank uses . |
| 26 | Nothing much doing at the pond , they had set the rods up and were wandering around , looking for frogs and newts , then they returned to their rods ; nothing stirred , so around 10pm they decided to call it a day . |
| 27 | There was n't much talking at all until Mrs. Favor started after the McLaren girl . |
| 28 | Nondeterminism within the process , and the many choices open to the environment , mean that any mixture of these containing at least one of unc is possible . |
| 29 | At the Sedgwick memorial , the main street continues ahead and a branch turns right , these rejoining at Cowgill a few miles further on ; this branch road will be described on the return journey . |
| 30 | You do n't want to run the risk of someone like that getting at you , so steer right away from any of the sorts of activities listed above . |