Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [v-ing] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't suddenly stop moving at the end of a training session . |
| 2 | If the Minister wants to retain this unitary Parliament , he had better start looking at the ways in which he can secure the rights of the people affected . |
| 3 | It would be impossible not to enjoy staying at the Venus — they 're some of our nicest apartments in Ibiza . |
| 4 | When I finally stopped growing at the age of 17 I felt relief . |
| 5 | In the kitchen she found Rodney stirring the contents of two saucepans and Veronica , John and a young man she did not know sitting at the table drinking wine . |
| 6 | Mind you 're not found lying at the bottom of the steps with a broken neck like Amy Robsart . |
| 7 | If anguish is too great , an elder may simply cease to discuss loss and just keep going at the level of practical consciousness . |
| 8 | In Sarajevo , UN planes had already started landing at the airport before the formal announcement by the Bosnian capital that it would accept the aid , ending a protest mounted because UN relief was not getting through to 100,000 Muslims cut off by Serbs in eastern Bosnia . |
| 9 | The second element was that I had just started working at the London School of Economics in October 1970 , which was exactly the same time as GLF started meeting there and LSE was in one of its periods of turmoil which involved me as someone working on the staff and excited me politically . |
| 10 | Hoomey thought he could easily start frothing at the mouth , the way his colour had drained . |
| 11 | Penelope could not help smiling at the formality of his words . |
| 12 | Harry could not help smiling at the boy 's excessive politeness . |
| 13 | I 'd also stopped looking at the sculpture . |
| 14 | One might also consider looking at the range of employment/unemployment experience and labour market participation and activity rates , although international comparisons of unemployment are notoriously difficult to make given the variation in definitions and data collection . |
| 15 | This decision divided the independent types from the gregarious ; some thoroughly enjoyed staying at the hostel for years : |
| 16 | I also remember thinking at the time that dressing like a white man and taking a white man 's name was n't ever going to hide the Apache in him . |
| 17 | In part this means seeing who teams up with whom in what kind of work situation and why , but it also means looking at the facts in quantitative terms . |
| 18 | The project will also involve looking at the circumstances of younger relatives joined by an elderly person . |
| 19 | Consideration of discretion and of the roles of ‘ street-level bureaucrats ’ must also involve looking at the implications of professionalism for implementation . |
| 20 | This lack of exposure in itself must have the effect of limiting motivation : staff nurses are rarely found battering at the tutors ' doors for advice on how to develop their teaching skills , and some way of motivating them and making them see the importance of teaching must be found . |
| 21 | Its entrance was discovered in 1950 and two years later this deepest of all gouffres acquired a sad celebrity with the death there of Marcel Loubens , a Belgian speleologist , who was badly injured deep underground but could not be got to the surface quickly enough to save his life , a story I dimly remember reading at the time in newspapers . |
| 22 | ‘ Then how do you explain this ? ’ he said , reaching for a folder that she had n't noticed lying at the end of the settee . |
| 23 | Somebody , an entertainer himself , once said to me that his idea of a perfect talk show host was someone you do n't remember seeing at the end of the programme . |
| 24 | well I mean the , the agent has n't or has n't yet sued , but I was n't really putting it like that , I was asking you whether it is your case as in presently stand looking at the defence you 've raised to whether or not you have failed to perform your legal obligations under clause nine . |
| 25 | Nobody wanted any more , which was just as well , as there was n't much left and she could n't face hacking at the carcase . |
| 26 | I could n't face sitting at the station waiting for him to turn up : I was damn well going to make him wait for me . |
| 27 | ‘ She looked at every single one of the hundreds of photos and could n't stop smiling at the memory . |
| 28 | When I did yours I could n't help looking at the photographs in the leather frame . ’ |
| 29 | She could n't help laughing at the absurdity of the whole situation . |
| 30 | ‘ I just could n't help laughing at the idea of the Devil himself sitting by my fire … |