Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] at a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the back of Wall Street 's overnight strength , the FT-SE 100 cash index rose 33 points at the outset and , with the futures index opening at a hefty premium , looked poised to turn in a record-setting performance . |
| 2 | In a dialect poem of 1730 on the West Riding the master clothier and his wife appear breakfasting at a common table with their family , a few journeymen , servants and apprentices before setting down to weave together from " five at morn till eight at neet " . |
| 3 | Dr Neil avoided looking at a bridling McAllister , particularly when Mrs Darrell went on to say , still in the same shriek , ‘ Hope she 's honest , Neil . |
| 4 | Usually seen soaring at a considerable height . |
| 5 | Not only are peak users paying for the high marginal costs they impose , but also those users who would not mind consuming at a different time ( e.g. households with night storage heaters , who can use electricity at a time when marginal costs are low ) are induced by cheaper prices to switch to consuming at off-peak times . |
| 6 | A SOLDIER today denied that his evidence was a ‘ total fabrication ’ to justify firing at a stolen car in West Belfast . |
| 7 | Because it , it 's terrifying looking at a blank piece of paper when we needed ways to start the comment . |
| 8 | Others need precise daily rations of sunlight that change with the seasons if they are to start flowering at a particular time . |
| 9 | The jockey merry-go-round kept whirring at a fierce pace as Adrian Maguire , who rode Cool Ground to win the Gold Cup , joined the rapidly-growing casualty list at Liverpool after falling with Sibton Abbey in the Perrier Jouet Handicap Chase . |
| 10 | Pictured looking at a first edition of Mansfield Park are , back row : |
| 11 | ‘ It is also desirable that members of our senior squad not in the first team are able to continue playing at a reasonable level , and they have not been able to do this in the past . ’ |
| 12 | 1402 Maximum package depth exceeded — repeat listing at a lower level package . |
| 13 | Please repeat listing at a lower level to obtain the packages you require . |
| 14 | Maggie was left staring at a closed door , lost for words . |
| 15 | Learning how to solve problems is a more complex activity in that it involves thinking at a higher level . |
| 16 | Institutions poured into the issue amid speculation that the flotation would start trading at a substantial premium . |
| 17 | With the issue priced right at the bottom of market expectations , analysts last night forecast that shares will start trading at a hefty profit . |
| 18 | With the issue priced right at the bottom of market expectations , analysts last night forecast that shares will start trading at a hefty profit . |
| 19 | He did not like to be kept waiting at a locked gate . |
| 20 | Semi-contact sparring at a martial arts club is an excellent way of simulating the real thing . |
| 21 | Then is sometimes claimed to be necessarily anaphoric in nature , and to have no gestural deictic usage , but rather complex usages show this is not so — consider , for example , the following said pointing at a 1962 model Chevrolet ( Nunberg , 1978 : 33 ) ) : ( 55 ) I was just a kid then As an initial step towards seeing how time deixis interacts with cultural measurements of time in an absolute or non-deictic way , consider words like today , tomorrow , yesterday . |
| 22 | For a while Glass found it difficult to find people to perform his work , so he formed his own ensemble ( which continues performing at a prodigious rate ) . |
| 23 | The American novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote standing at a tall refrigerator — a chair and table being too cramped for the big mountain man — and he dropped unnumbered sheets , each with a few scrawled words , into a cardboard box at his feet . |
| 24 | Fifteen minutes later , or it may have been twenty , I stood staring at a caged lift : the chest-flexing iron lattice , the accordion doors . |