Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Office hibernators are sporadic attenders , preferring to hibernate at home ( or aestivate on hot beaches ) . |
| 2 | He stopped eating to grin at me . |
| 3 | For daring to come at all , she was cut from the Kirov team . |
| 4 | The problems of the British social formation were sufficiently pressing to demand at least rhetorical radical solutions from the parties ( Wilson 's ‘ planning ’ , Heath 's ‘ free market ’ ) , and governments ' failures to match their promises were of sufficient concern to the people to breed a serious disillusionment with party politics , yet I submit that for most people of all classes the problems were not considered so urgent as to demand a really radical questioning of existing social relations , with all the risks that would entail . |
| 5 | It will have been noted that , not content with imposing upon themselves the task of ruling through the tendering of advice , which might have been thought difficult enough , the British took upon themselves in Northern Nigeria the even more difficult task of ruling without actually appearing to rule at all — an undertaking whose very absurdity only emphasizes its interest . |
| 6 | He 's dying to glare at me , but his neighbour , Mrs Mills , needs advice about a motor car . |
| 7 | So at this moment it 's as well to look at your present experience and see how you can help yourself to extend it , before applying to audition at a drama school . |
| 8 | ‘ I am dying to play at Wembley , ’ admitted Owers . ’ |
| 9 | Hatton , Monk and Folan denied a similar charge relating to land at Brownlow Hill , Liverpool between July 1987 and January 1988 . |
| 10 | The social composition of admitted solicitors is remarkably similar to the profile of law students , but the socialization process involved in qualifying to practise at the Bar dramatically increases the preponderance of persons from professional and managerial backgrounds . |
| 11 | Returning to snipe at Rousseau 's humorous dictum ( quoted earlier ) the writer retorts : |
| 12 | Whilst resolving to stay at independent as possible , I contacted ACET who I knew provided practical care at home . |
| 13 | Immatures best told from other large immature gulls by distinctive shape of bill , heavy and appearing to droop at tip . |
| 14 | Stockier build than Common Gull ( p. 153 ) with white wing-tips , heavy red bill appearing to droop at tip , and longer red legs , while winter and immature birds usually have dark smudge through eye . |
| 15 | ‘ Ratany plant , ’ he 'd say , dismounting to peer at the tiny , magenta petals . |
| 16 | When the boy , as she had thought of the youth but who was actually seventeen , came into the room he needed no urging to sit at the table ; then grinning at the child , he said , ‘ What 's your name ? ’ |
| 17 | Their excuse — not that lame — is that they frequently have to cater for up to 80,000 , mainly male , football fans wanting to go at half-time . |
| 18 | I know it has been done , but when , For Ormskirk we wanted , we were looking to interview at the end of the M fifty eight |
| 19 | When we redesigned the bathroom in our Victorian terrace , we fitted a shower in one of the bedrooms , to allow dismantling and fitting to proceed at a more leisurely pace . |
| 20 | I 'm not looking to work at the CFTC issue within the AFBD . |
| 21 | If they made the bead taste bitter , by dipping it in alcohol , or quinine , or the pungent methylanthranilate , then the chick would peck once , show disgust by shaking its head vigorously and wiping its beak on the floor of its pen , and then back away , refusing to peck at a similar but dry bead offered any time from a few seconds to a few days subsequently . |
| 22 | Helen pulled on her jacket and walked quickly towards the door , not wanting to look at Mike . |
| 23 | They had sat there hating one another , quarrelling in bitter voices , not wanting to look at one another . |
| 24 | She stared down at the papers in her hand , not wanting to look at him . |
| 25 | come here , let me , come here and have a cuddle from me , you 're just wanting to look at what pet ? |
| 26 | Was this one we were wanting to look at was n't it ? |
| 27 | She climbed up again , and , refusing to look at the dangerous beams , began soberly to close the trunks , tidy up a little . |
| 28 | Athelstan drank greedily from the water cup , refusing to look at Cranston . |
| 29 | Thus , when the discount houses offer to sell bills to the Bank , the latter is in a strong position to influence rates of interest in the bill market by refusing to buy at the rates quoted . |
| 30 | The old ladies cast one another knowing glances , somehow contriving to look at once smug and disapproving . |