Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now empty , decay and neglect are slowly eating away at the building 's fabric . |
| 2 | So much happening here at the moment as the ball was followed up by David he looked at the referee as er challenge him for the er shove inside the penalty area but the referee was unimpressed by that , Blackburn have already got one penalty here tonight from which they 've scored , Shrewsbury have scored from a penalty too and it 's the third division side still in the lead here by three goals to two . |
| 3 | The skinhead style , for all its apparent knuckleheadedness , is a consciously held pose , a deliberate turning back to earlier , more certain times when men were men and girls stuck by their blokes through thick and thin , a time when an observer could tell an individual 's social status by merely glancing down at the footwear or at the way a person walked . |
| 4 | There was a woman standing at one of the second-storey windows when Gentle reached the intersection , just gazing out at the street . |
| 5 | No doubt my loved ones are already laughing heartily at the thought that I could have anything useful to say to a secretary of state , and two years ago I too would have discounted the idea that a politically damp , small ‘ c ’ conservative would ever be in a position to offer advice on competition and free markets to a Tory government . |
| 6 | Here she was , without Simon , sitting peacefully looking out at the view . |
| 7 | A grey car , immaculately clean , was just pulling up at the gate and a big man in a plain grey suit was getting out to open it . |
| 8 | Just getting up at the start of the day without complaining , is an achievement . |
| 9 | I 'm , I 'm just saying there at the minute and , and if you 'd like to argue no , we can control the sub-contractor sometimes , then fine . |
| 10 | He 'd said his prayers and celebrated Mass , Benedicta just slipping in at the door and kneeling next to the baptismal font instead of coming further up the nave . |
| 11 | But I mean I 'm just speculating here at the moment . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's much simpler just draping a piece of material round you to work out what shape would work best and then just sitting down at the sewing machine ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It 's much simpler just draping a piece of material round you to work out what shape would work best and then just sitting down at the sewing machine ! ’ |
| 14 | " They 're not exactly queuing up at the door , though , are they ? " |
| 15 | It was Ranald who explained , always keeping on at the massage . |
| 16 | I was still looking down at the girl in the grass . |
| 17 | And she sat there , still looking down at the sand . |
| 18 | He paused a moment , still looking down at the body , the head in the centre of a spreading pool of blood . |
| 19 | Connon was standing a little apart from them , still looking across at the superintendent 's table . |
| 20 | We talked of toxic wastes ; the possibility of there ever being true democracy in Tonga ( ‘ on paper the place is ripe for revolution , it is true , and our friends in the other islands are experiencing troubled times , so we must be wary ’ ) ; the complaints about corruption among the Tongan nobility , the curious business arrangements engineered between members of the royal family and the dubious Americans who were forever fetching up at the palace doorstep wishing to bend a royal ear to this scheme or that , with wealth and fame for all ; and the most surprising news : his decision to demolish the royal palace . |
| 21 | When he arrived at the shop , Oliver was still kicking wildly at the cellar door . |
| 22 | Things do n't look likely to improve , since recruits are hardly piling up at the door . |
| 23 | Fabia was still staring witlessly at the door after he had quietly closed it behind him . |
| 24 | ‘ When can I see my father ? ’ she demanded , still staring out at the city she had been born in , and feeling waves of love for its brash life force , its moneyed pavements and its frantic race against time . |
| 25 | At press time Sun was still chipping away at the price of the Tsunami Classic , so named because Sun expects it to become the standard by which all others are judged . |
| 26 | I may try to shrink myself to an infinitesimal point of thinking Ego to which all spontaneous process is external , but the spontaneous is always springing up at the centre of me , thrusting me forward or dragging me back , and it is only at the periphery that I can take full control of it . |
| 27 | It 'd got to the stage where the workforce were not gon na talk to the management on a an official level , you know we were still talking informally at the picket line and , you know still trying to be helpful and offer our advice on what could be done to solve the dispute . |
| 28 | Still rubbing away at the counter , Maggie had to resist the desire to turn round and bring the wet cloth across the beautiful face to the side of her . |
| 29 | Leeds charged back down the M62 still mouthing off at the injustice of defeat . |
| 30 | George had come to stand beside her , also looking down at the baby . |