Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adv prt] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked down at Tom 's heavy brown ankle boots , his thick navy overcoat and the green corduroy cap with the tufts of white hair sticking out at either side . |
| 2 | The stereo cassette is an essential tool , with Queen blasting out at full volume while she produces her fine work . |
| 3 | The pavement meetings of Hitler 's English disciples resembled more accurately a noisy Pimlico pub turning out at closing time . |
| 4 | To miss the odd target is acceptable , but not finds coming up at this rate and in such a confined area . |
| 5 | ‘ What 's the point of sending Officer Hassan flying off at half cock and upsetting a lot of people if it 's all to no purpose ? ’ |
| 6 | A demonstration by Mauro Bonomi of C-Cube showed excellent quality real time video playing back at 200:1 compression and at a CD-ROM data transfer rate . |
| 7 | Tess seemed like a queen to Clare , perhaps because he knew that she was the most beautiful woman walking about at this time of day . |
| 8 | The running tunnels are connected to the service tunnel by cross passages every 375m , and to each other by piston ducts every 250m to reduce the aerodynamic resistance of trains passing through at high speed . |
| 9 | One of Mr Hallam 's team mates , William Morris , of Corwen Close , Ford Estate , Wirral , said that both players were on the ground kicking out at each other . |
| 10 | It said that despite being aware of Gooch coming up at high speed behind him , Gallagher pulled out into his path . |
| 11 | I help him ; we lift the rusting grating up at one end but the far side is still secured by an iron pin and we ca n't shift it any further . |
| 12 | Pinned above Beth 's bed , next to the card proclaiming her to be a spiritualist , was a photograph of a male dancer from the newly formed Royal Ballet , and I came in one day soon after I arrived at Huntingdon to find a knot of giggling girls peering up at this dancer , who was poised on one foot , wearing an agonised expression and very tight tights . |
| 13 | The incident , trivial in itself , of 20 November 1946 , culminated three days later in a terrible bombardment of Haiphong which was a prelude to pitched battles in Tonkin between the Vietminh forces and the French ; and although the usually quoted figure of 6,000 Vietnamese dead in Haiphong may be too high , the ease with which casualties of this order could be inflicted , with a French cruiser joining in at close range , suggested misleadingly that when French forces were fully engaged it would be such a one-sided contest that the Vietminh would learn the appropriate lesson . |
| 14 | The machine is called a ‘ Fourdrinier ’ machine and mimics the hand process in a continuous conveyor belt fashion with wet pulp going on at one end and a dry roll of paper at the other . |
| 15 | That night , it was like firecrackers going off at New Year 's ; the next morning the blood flowed like rivers . |
| 16 | On the new album , Bring it on Home to Me stands out : mean Tyneside vocals and Irish pipes gloriously underpin the moody soul structures of Sam Cooke 's classic , the pipes taking off at one point as if on a Claptonesque guitar solo . |
| 17 | When the same thing is attempted deliberately , however , one turn is usually enough to send the model shooting off at great speed in some totally unexpected direction ! |
| 18 | HP envisages an on-site upgrade path that requires only a processor swap going , for example , from a 40 to a 50 and a chassis upgrade going from , an F to a G. The F class which HP has poised against Sun reportedly starts at 36 tpsA ; the next performance point is 61 tpcA , available as an F or H , then 88 TPS , followed by 110 tpsA topping out at 184 tpsA . |
| 19 | It came a cropper in 1990 and had to be cut up and sold off , with the remains ending up at Amstral Workstation Solutions Ltd , a value added reseller operation . |
| 20 | I think Dufy is quite wrong ; John Piper is more the type , his peculiar banks and cliffs which have no vegetation on them whatsoever yet look as if they are going to have tiny green shoots peeping out at any minute . |