Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [v-ing] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The embroidery , a pattern of golden lily-flowers dotted here and there , each one at a fair distance from the other , would be confined to the shoulder band and to a broad sash fastening at the back in as large a bow as Miss Dallam would tolerate , its ends falling to the hem of her skirt . |
| 2 | Later that day , after many interviews with ladies who looked as if they 'd come straight from an enthralling hour knitting at the foot of the guillotine , we found our garret . |
| 3 | Then , staring across the moonlit yard , she saw his tall figure standing at the top of the slope leading down to the river . |
| 4 | There was less interest in the possibility of home delivery , although mobile shops calling at the door would be an obvious service to housebound consumes . |
| 5 | What would the position be if there was an exceptionally strong gale blowing at the time of the original road accident ? |
| 6 | They brought their turbans , their pride and their brown eyes twinkling at the prospect of business . |
| 7 | Wood is near water ; hence this image of an old poplar sprouting at the root . |
| 8 | Limone is a very old village nestling at the foot of the cliffs on the lake 's western shore . |
| 9 | Charges are 2 ½%; management fee — this covers free tax reporting at the year end and quarterly valuation and investment reviews — and 6% as a front end charge . |
| 10 | The other scientific argument raging at the conference involved the start of bipedality . |
| 11 | Billy Sullivan suddenly shaped up to his friend , his clenched fists pawing at the air and his shoulders moving from side to side . |
| 12 | The ideal network station comes with a variety of access controls to prevent other network users blundering around the files on your local hard disk and to prevent unauthorized users getting at the network . |
| 13 | In Leeds United they were facing one of the top three English sides playing at the pinnacle of their powers . |
| 14 | Fatherly , distinguished men scoffing at the hero 's genius in smoke-filled clubs , plotting his come-uppance , but ultimately being swept away by the rollercoaster force of his obsessive talent . |
| 15 | In the suburbs and , especially in rural areas , the frequency of public transport can make all the difference between attending an activity that you enjoy and spending cold , wet afternoons waiting at the bus stops . |
| 16 | The colour rushed back into her face , her back arched still further , she whimpered and thrashed , her outstretched hands clutching at the edge of the mattress . |
| 17 | He told me they had put into Puerto Gallegos to land seven Swedish engineers with spares for Volvo and Saab equipment and had seen an old wooden square-rigger lying at the Navy Yard quay . |
| 18 | Last Wednesday we invited the 4 British students studying at the University to visit us at the hotel for dinner . |
| 19 | Around the same time , he saw a boy or young man wearing light clothes running at the side of the road . |
| 20 | The main right-wing opposition party , National Renewal ( RN ) , criticized the description of the political circumstances existing at the time of the coup , but otherwise gave the report a favourable reception , as did the parties of Aylwin 's centre-left government and the mainstream left . |
| 21 | Hence the vocabulary of the system is effectively unlimited , unlike models working at the word level where the size of the model increases very rapidly with the size of the vocabulary . |
| 22 | There were four of them so there was as much chance of the average Girl staying at the Tiller flat as of getting into Buckingham Palace . |
| 23 | I listened to attendant noises coming on gradually — the scuffles and grunts and curses of men near at hand , a more distant din of shod feet moving at the double , shouted commands . |
| 24 | As Tom made his way to the door he noticed a particularly evil-looking group lurking at the entrance of a narrow alleyway . |
| 25 | In my own survey of visitors to the British Museum in which teams of five interviewers worked for four separate weeks interviewing at the museum entrances I made sure that I was present for at least the first day of each survey and was available by phone during the rest of the time . |
| 26 | It is justified as ‘ an important and essential part of a publicly funded legal aided system to prevent unreasonable conduct of legally aided litigation and to prevent assisted persons profiting at the expense of public funds . ’ |
| 27 | if there was any obvious possibility of separate role-mappings predominating at the level of sentence-based case , the material was not used . |
| 28 | I 've been primed with stolen cash from a post-office raid set up to finance your old man 's own version of early day closing at the nick . |
| 29 | Most surprising of all , at a quarterly delegate meeting at the end of 1873 , " it was generally held that there could be no reasonable objection to their [ women 's ] employment to a certain extent ; the main point in dispute being , was it right to put a limit on their number and … to what extent and how to apply the rule " . |
| 30 | It was a simple drawing of a square tower , standing in splendid isolation like an accusing finger pointing at the sky . |