Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , she was only going to look at a cottage . |
| 2 | Paige strove for rationality in a world that was suddenly threatening to dissolve at the seduction of touch and tone . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When it was some ten metres away and was obviously not going to stop at the shelter , Adam stepped right into its path . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The cracks were already beginning to show at the moment of their greatest triumph . |
| 8 | One of the delights of being on holiday is not having to look at the clock . |
| 9 | I 'm just learning to drive at the moment and I find its more for my independence than any thing else |
| 10 | Hatch considered him carefully , not bothering to look at the ID card that Cowley had held out for inspection . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm just trying to get at the truth , ’ soothed Blanche . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We 're now hoping to go at the end of the month . ’ |
| 14 | She was glad they were n't going to stay at the farm , though . |
| 15 | 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 . |