Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [v-ing] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | Was silly old Eli sitting at the wrong gate ? |
| 4 | This tin of Day and Martins metal polish gave me some trepidation looking at the vast areas of iron ferrous . |
| 5 | I laughed silently as I sat against a hard cushion in the palm-frond house looking at the brown eyes around me . |
| 6 | She cackled , delighted with the queasy mixture on the plate , hot brown coffee lapping at the pale wedge of sugared pastry . |
| 7 | Benchmarking represented a period of enforced introspection beginning at the strategic level and percolating through the organization as the change process progressed . |
| 8 | Nice , quiet bed , with a cool , cotton pillow for my throbbing brow and a playful breeze puffing at the open window , lifting its frilly skirt like a peeping Tom . |
| 9 | A former executive officer with the civil service working at the National Engineering Laboratory , East Kilbride , she was now physically and mentally handicapped . |
| 10 | The so-called " excretory system " is very primitive , consisting of a canal within each lateral cord joining at the excretory pore in the oesophageal region . |
| 11 | I 'm usually too absorbed in my work to spend much time looking at the other students . ’ |
| 12 | Easily Accessible : The village of Raskelf is a rural community lying at the northern end of the Vale of York , a few miles from the Hambleton Hills which form the southern edge of the North York Moors . |
| 13 | This protectiveness has been especially strong in Sian , as before we got here there was an ‘ incident ’ in which an Australian girl teaching at the Foreign Language Institute was attacked and injured ( a fractured scull ) by a son of one of the workers who worked in the Institute . |
| 14 | I closed my eyes and thought about the trapped , compressed spring and the little slug sitting at the shiny bottom of the rifled tube . |
| 15 | Did you see that one advertising triple glazing at the same time as his double would you believe ? |
| 16 | She wore a great deal of make-up at all times , but that day , perhaps just as primitive man might have painted his face as a protection , she was garnished with particularly bright eye colours and lipstick , so that it was a little garish mask staring at the two policemen . |
| 17 | And that leads to the third , less obvious , reason : the market-place itself , to work efficiently , needs consumers who know how prices compare , and who act on that knowledge buying at the right price , not buying if the price is too high for this to have an influence on prices , through traders who set attractive prices competing successfully against traders who set inflated prices , it is by no means necessary for all consumers to be actively price-conscious . |
| 18 | without any tangible benefit starting at the same day that is your , that is your problem . |
| 19 | Parents and staff at school , and local residents who use the crossing , are united in this petition for a pelican crossing to replace the current zebra crossing at the earliest opportunity . |
| 20 | In the city he is just another casual labourer working at the lowest level of urban employment . |
| 21 | These examples are relevant in the present context as the equitable no conflict rule is formulated in terms of a " reasonable man looking at the relevant facts and circumstances of the particular case " thinking that " there was a real sensible possibility of conflict " . |
| 22 | After years of criticism , and after Tampa , here was a suggestion of dishonesty from an unimpeachable source pointing at the chief executive of the group . |
| 23 | It should have spent a little more time looking at the serious work being carried out by the Health Education Authority and less time on carping criticisms of the authority 's work . |
| 24 | Complete herringbone stitching at the lower part of side seams , above the mitres . |
| 25 | In contrast with Bali , the Fipa as described by Willis provide an example of a hierarchical and centralized society that has successfully generalized a norm of peaceful interaction originating at the local community level . |
| 26 | Dealers emerged from the first day 's sale of the Blackmer library gasping at the high prices . |
| 27 | A review by M.S.P. in the Cape Times ( 30 September 1944 ) of the University 's Junior Ballet appearing at the Little Theatre remarked on his ‘ debut in Cape Town ballet , and a very impressive one too ’ as Pierrot in St Valentine 's Night . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Byron said that a number of small machines would be used to start each vital organ going at the same time : one machine for the brain , another a heart-machine , another a kidney-machine , and so on . |
| 30 | With their central register filed in address order , information about any person living at the relevant address is passed regardless of their name . |