Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [v-ing] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Remember to keep these screws well back , to be hidden by the frame , because although the Faithful kneeling at the altar are meant to have their minds on other things , this is professional woodwork and we do n't want them peering up the legs of our fixings .
2 She said most of it was it was n't the actual looking at the hole it was that she was hurting him pushing it in .
3 I remember one day in the 1940s sitting at a table on the first floor of the Crown in Fleet Street , next to a table where an attractive young woman , then unknown to me , was sitting in front of a plate of smoked salmon and opposite an empty place furnished with another plate of smoked salmon , which must have been ordered in advance .
4 Roland felt a strange pricking at the base of his neck .
5 The Draft provides for the service of documents required for the purpose of a civil proceeding at the request of a tribunal ( defined to include courts , and administrative agencies engaged in the exercise of judicial or quasi-judicial functions ) of the state of origin .
6 There was no incredible bulging at the centre ; no cracks , no jagged patches where plaster might have fallen under the strain .
7 Yet ‘ to ascertain whether or not an institution is a charity , it is , then , no good looking at the Act ’ .
8 It 's no good looking at the cigars available and attempting to choose one on the basis of certain criteria .
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