Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paige said quickly , heart thumping at the very idea . |
| 2 | Among those noting Xu 's habit of using just one board ( ingredients are so fresh and so quickly prepared that food poisoning is not considered a threat ) is Keith Mitchell , team captain of the British chefs competing at the culinary Olympics in Frankfurt next year , and head chef at the Grand Hotel , Eastbourne , East Sussex . |
| 3 | The different frequencies of light are what the human eye sees as different colors , with the lowest frequencies appearing at the red end of the spectrum and the highest frequencies at the blue end . |
| 4 | His plan was based on the marine lieutenant landing at the Old Quay slipway in the North Harbour and creating a diversion there , while Jones himself landed , undetected it was hoped , on the south foreshore , put the battery there out of action and then , passing round the town , knocked out the North Battery , before joining up with the other party to burn the shipping in both harbours . |
| 5 | The flames did help to disperse the fog and also to make the runway more visible , but of course one air field could n't hope to cope with all the 8 Group heavies returning at the same time , and things were pretty chaotic for a few hours . |
| 6 | The practitioner travels in all directions , executing various movements , with the final technique ending at the very point where he began . |
| 7 | Gemma sits like a reclining obelisk with messy hair dyed a shade lighter than his , large eyes resting at an artful slant , a full mouth . |
| 8 | Robyn pursed her lips and tilted her chin , eyes flashing at the scathing tone of his voice . |
| 9 | By searching for flashes repeating at exactly the same rate as the radio pulses , they were able to investigate much fainter pulsations than if they had been looking for pulses occurring at an unknown rate . |
| 10 | He fingered his jaw thoughtfully , eyes glittering at the scarlet patches in her cheeks . |
| 11 | Bending , he feathered a kiss along her cheek , his cool lips pausing at the delicate curve of her ear . |
| 12 | The reason that you use hot air is to keep that combustion going at a good temperature . |
| 13 | There had been a cancellation so two seats would be available on a Tarom flight five days hence with a Romanian Automobile Club hire car waiting at the other end . |
| 14 | Cambridge were left high and dry for a time this afternoon as Oxford followed in the footsteps of many a champion boxer and left the opposition waiting at the official weigh-in . |
| 15 | Nobody could expect you to think up anything as stupid as a dumb movie actress aiming at the front page . ’ |
| 16 | The ILP leadership , feeling it had a mandate from the Easter Conference , made preparations for a Special Conference at which it would make : a recommendation for disaffiliation , and for the re-organisation of the ILP as an independent Socialist Party with a programme aiming at a decisive change from Capitalism to Socialism . |
| 17 | Erm , the simulator will be developed er for this aircraft starting at the same time as we enter the production investment phase . |
| 18 | Then you tell the story of the murder and the subsequent investigation , adroitly working in the fact that there was a red light shining at the vital time and place , using one of the ways of tricking your reader into " noticing and not noticing " this that we looked at in the previous chapter , and you also harp like mad on the impossibility of a person in a black dress or suit having been on hand at the moment the murder was committed . |
| 19 | This means that a 40 ton lorry travelling at 70 miles an hour has 53 times the destruction power and maiming power that is possessed by a 0.75 ton sports car travelling at the same speed . |
| 20 | Luther Reynolds clenched the sides of the chair , his large fists curling and uncurling , and his fiery dark eyes glaring at the determined face of David Miller , the stepson he had come to resent with such bitterness that he could taste it . |
| 21 | We see Othello clutching at the last flickers of his memory of Desdemona as she was , for him ( and as of course she still is ) : Not your way , because not my way . |
| 22 | They 're useful in surgery to keep blood flowing at the right speed and sucking old blood from re-attached parts so new blood flows in quickly . |
| 23 | The whole procedure is initiated by a demand for data arising at the first site . |
| 24 | Some time later I heard a chink of glass and looked up to find Dennis sitting at a nearby table with a half-empty bottle of chilled rosé . |
| 25 | Chest x ray showed evidence of previous tuberculosis and some pleural thickening at the left base , which was thought likely to be long standing ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 26 | Finally , computed tomography of the chest showed pleural thickening at the left lung base in an area corresponding to that previously noted on a chest x ray ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 27 | Flinging it wide , she made to thrust the other woman from the house , only to be brought up short by the sight of two gentlemen standing at the other end of the long covered porch . |
| 28 | Is that ambition functioning at a high level or is it just a sense of obligation or is it idealism ? |
| 29 | Rocky , busy waving his charges on board , glanced over his shoulder in time to see a small group of dark shapes disappearing at a fast lope round the bend of the curving driveway . |
| 30 | Last night the old campaigner Benn was at an end of election meeting at a local community hall ; tonight there is a post-count tea with sandwiches . |