Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So having looked at the relationship between business and the voluntary sector today , let's take a brief look at the future . |
| 2 | Paige strove for rationality in a world that was suddenly threatening to dissolve at the seduction of touch and tone . |
| 3 | Returning to the Rossiya and not daring to look at the men and women who stood and swayed beside him . |
| 4 | He walked slowly , not daring to look at the drop on his right and becoming ever more aware of the cold , biting wind and eerie sense of loneliness , as if he hung half way between heaven and earth . |
| 5 | I 'm not looking to work at the CFTC issue within the AFBD . |
| 6 | When it was some ten metres away and was obviously not going to stop at the shelter , Adam stepped right into its path . |
| 7 | It asks why the sun bothered to start the cycle of life at all if life was just going to end at the middle like the soldiers life . |
| 8 | These changes , which were just beginning to develop at the end of Marx 's life have thrown into question much of this original Marxist theory and account for the modern debate about whether or not the capitalist state is always ( or ever ) an instrument which defends the interests of the ruling class in a repressive way . |
| 9 | Two hours later , the body has drifted far downstream , finally getting wedged at the top of the weir in Parson 's Pleasure — the place where the careless Howard Brown had earlier left his yellow programme — and his continental seven … |
| 10 | For example , when we complained about our laundry not getting done at the hotel , and about our rooms not being done , it was Sun who went to the hotel and sorted things out . |
| 11 | The cracks were already beginning to show at the moment of their greatest triumph . |
| 12 | He was a tall , handsome man in his late thirties with short black hair , which was already beginning to grey at the temples , and a neatly trimmed black moustache . |
| 13 | One of the delights of being on holiday is not having to look at the clock . |
| 14 | The other proviso of course , is our commitment to ninety , nineteen ninety four , and nineteen ninety five , not having arrived at the end of the financial year yet , we 're still in the position of having to forecast what those commitments will be . |
| 15 | I 'm just learning to drive at the moment and I find its more for my independence than any thing else |
| 16 | Hatch considered him carefully , not bothering to look at the ID card that Cowley had held out for inspection . |
| 17 | So I 'm , I 'm just trying to look at the ones for and then we 'll go from there . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm just trying to get at the truth , ’ soothed Blanche . |
| 19 | SCOTVEC is also starting to look at the possibility of developing general SVQs at level IV in the longer term , building on HNCs and HNDs . |
| 20 | We 're now hoping to go at the end of the month . ’ |
| 21 | She was glad they were n't going to stay at the farm , though . |
| 22 | Two uniforms were trying to put an extendable ladder up to the skylight — God knows where it had come from — over the bath without actually having to look at the body . |