Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [v-ing] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of staring blankly out at the world , or nervously striking at the fence , as some of the eagles did , he trekked back and forth in a figure of eight over an area that was only one tiny part of his caged area . |
| 2 | Or there was the horse-racing , cricket or football in the parkland , a visit to the skating-rink , or simply marvelling at the mixture of bravura , vulgarity and confidence with which the Victorians had dropped this gigantic testament to British economic expansion into what were then the sleepy rural outskirts of the fast-expanding city . |
| 3 | Except for occasional — rare — meals at a nearby restaurant , they never went out , sending out for meals when they did n't feel like cooking , while Luke no longer even accompanied her to the various work-connected functions she sometimes had to attend at weekends , dealing with business matters of his own or else remaining at the apartment while she was out . |
| 4 | Er and therefore it looks at erm the indirect impact of development erm and it 's it 's more sophisticated one might say than merely looking at the quality of the land . |
| 5 | Er , it is important too , to stress that the Agency is acting as a bridge between the purchasing er , authority , the Social Services Department , and the er , independent sector , and that er , it 's also important that er , too , that er , in many cases , er , the provider 's income er , will , will not just come from Social Services , but it may be that people are purchasing their own care , if , if they 're not eligible for public , public 's er , help through , through funding , and therefore the scheme is much wider than just looking at the purchasing intentions of the , the Social Services Department . |
| 6 | A statement such as ‘ That makes me feel very angry/unhappy/sad/upset when you do that ’ rather than immediately shouting at the child enables parents to stand back from their immediate emotional reactions and also teach the child awareness of other people 's feelings . |
| 7 | Therefore , they were left with the option of investing millions of pounds or closing them , and perhaps looking at the building of a new reactor . |
| 8 | There was one vehicle there , a car with two figures sitting in the front seats and apparently looking at the road ahead of them . |
| 9 | Belfast proved worthy opponents , attacking tenaciously and not giving at the back . |
| 10 | Hebbert was leafing through Hard Rock to re-live Great/Bow combination and just glancing at the Vember chapter , which was the nearest the book got to Curving Crack . |
| 11 | But mainly these diseases have now been er controlled if not completely eradicated and as a result the world 's population is er is likely to zoom up as you can see right off the top end of the , of the graph and we 're expecting something like eight billion people er and , and still rising at the end of the , of the century and it 'll be some time way into the next century before the world 's population actually starts to er er to level out . |
| 12 | Paralleling , and often lying at the root of land tenure and local economic systems , are profound cultural differences of historic origin within many areas . |
| 13 | Her hands ceased their uncertain fluttering , dropping to her lap as she sat back and then tugging at the hem of her skirt until it was at a more modest level . |
| 14 | The A.835 goes straight forward , crossing the watershed of the Highlands and ultimately arriving at the east coast . |
| 15 | Think of Miss Marple , Agatha Christie 's aged detective heroine , knitting her unceasing supply of pink and blue baby garments , pondering the latest murder case and quietly arriving at the solution long before anybody else . |
| 16 | She still huddled in her small silent way at the top of her cage , watching the trees and sky and never looking at the Zoo , the people , or the other eagles . |
| 17 | George Beto , now in semi-retirement but still teaching at the Center , is one of the main actors in the story . |
| 18 | Not attempting to arouse er , peoples nationalistic feelings , but really looking at the country . |
| 19 | Effective history teaching may also require that pupils spend as much time away from the screen , discussing , hypothesising and analysing their findings , as actually working at the keyboard . |