Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [v-ing] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One sees more of the bowl and stem of the Picasso Compotier , for instance , than one would in normal vision if one assumed the same high viewpoint when looking at the top of it ; and the gourd behind is painted as though in silhouette or directly at eye level . |
| 2 | She escaped to her own room and sat down on the bed , huddling in her damp raincoat and picking at the stitches of the band on her arm . |
| 3 | Some of the more important include George Blake , who worked for MI6 ( see Chapter 2 ) ; John Cairncross , who betrayed Ultra secrets from the Government Code & Cipher School ( GCCS ) at Bletchley Park during the war to the Russians ; John Vassall , a sad homosexual who gave away naval secrets while working at the Admiralty ; Frank Bossard , who gave the Russians details of British and American guided weapons systems ( which must have amused them greatly as the Russians were far ahead of the West at the time ) ; and William Marshall , who had worked as a cipher clerk at the British Embassy in Moscow . |
| 4 | Zak raised his eyes vaguely in my direction but it would have been tactless to disrupt the thoughts behind them , so I pressed on forward , traversing the dayniter and the sleeping cars and arriving at the forward dome car . |
| 5 | A workman was rescued by the fire brigade at the weekend when he became stuck on a hydraulic platform while working at the Seabird Hotel , The Front , Seaton Carew . |
| 6 | The details of how such intentions could be realized would be left to local joint planning and financing at the district level : ‘ any proposal to move the balance of care from hospital to community should come from the local level ’ . |
| 7 | The shells from the Allied guns were passing very low overhead and bursting at the edge of the wood in the German positions . |
| 8 | But before she could settle to it , there was a sudden scrambling and slithering at the bottom of the slope . |
| 9 | Her high-pitched voice , rapid speech and stabbing at the telephone betrayed her lack of balance and control . |
| 10 | Poor seed-beds , dry conditions and spraying at the wrong time or the wrong rate could all explain the appearance of the yield-sapping weed . |
| 11 | Gold EIA went ahead to commission the Centre for Environmental Management and Planning at the University of Aberdeen to undertake the first phase of the EIA , its scoping . |
| 12 | Others probe the functions of different areas by applying electrical stimulation and looking at the behaviours , if any , that are elicited by it . |
| 13 | Independent control of water supplies to individual sections would facilitate this and the flexibility and effectiveness of the extinguishing system would be further improved if zones could be triggered by remote manual means linked into the automatic system and terminating at the same point as isolation valves and of venting controls . |
| 14 | Zervos was dancing on the tiled floor and beating at the air . |
| 15 | But if disposing of the waste generated by the Hinkley C reactor during its normal operation was a problem , what about the waste that would result from the eventual shutdown and dismantling at the end of its hoped-for forty years of operational life — the process described as ‘ decommissioning ’ ? |
| 16 | 2 Raising the right leg and bending at the knee , twist slightly to the left . |
| 17 | The only way to view the Chancellor was by scrambling through the neighbouring graveyard and looking at the house across a row of tombstones . |
| 18 | Setting aside this particular match and looking at the idea on a broader basis , I see a rough ride ahead if the idea spreads . |
| 19 | Sovereign Golf offers reduced green fees when staying at the Suites Hotel . |
| 20 | One of the quarry men was pointing to the wrecked truck and shouting at the others . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's the only castle I 've ever seen that I can imagine living in , ’ she said , standing in the upper gallery and gazing at the magnificent views from the windows . |
| 22 | On this issue therefore , I find it curious that so many people can become excited at the humanitarianism of the young Marx while choosing at the same time to ignore the inhumanity of the more mature Marx . |
| 23 | All I can do is lie in bed , listening to the howling wind and staring at the grey northern sky . |
| 24 | Long considered one of the leading exponents of British Pop Art , and a major figure painter of his generation , Patrick Caulfield is the subject of a survey covering his thirty-year career and opening at the Serpentine Gallery towards the end of this month ( 24 November-17 January 1993 ) . |