Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] at [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Jazz was in bed , lying staring at the strange patterns the lime-tree leaves , illuminated by the lamp-post , made on his bedroom ceiling , his father came up to him , moving softly round the door . |
| 2 | The first batch of five coolies were flung face downward in the red dirt , and under the direction of the burly figure of Phat , half a dozen of his subordinates began lashing at the exposed soles of their bare feet . |
| 3 | Frantically he began tearing at the small buttons that ran from her waist to the collar of her dark blouse . |
| 4 | The new picture is then assessed and another remedy given starting at the lowest degrees of dynamization ( LM 1 ) regardless of what potency level the previous remedy had reached . |
| 5 | He remembers competing at the national championships at Cleethorpes in 1923 , when the water lay only three foot deep above a foot of solid mud , and having to touch a mud-smeared wall at each end . |
| 6 | Assuming the car had gone missing at the same ti me as Angela Morgan , it might have been there for over a week ; it had only been found that evening by a uniformed constable who was keeping his eyes open . |
| 7 | Semi-contact sparring at a martial arts club is an excellent way of simulating the real thing . |
| 8 | Although we occasionally recruit sous-chefs who already have marine catering experience , we prefer recruiting at the junior levels of assistant cook or cook . |
| 9 | Corbett just sat staring at the wet walls : the cell was narrow and fetid , a grating high in the wall gave a little air and light . |