Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] at the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At night , while John 's impatient body sleeps , I listen to the waves loosely slapping at the side of the stilled ship . |
| 2 | ‘ State Department officials were unavailable for comment , ’ the New York Times reported , thereby hinting at the source of the leak , but if the story had been aired as a trial balloon , it failed to lift off . |
| 3 | Letters regularly occur in certain combinations and positions with , for example , the letter Q always being followed by U , and a number of letters rarely appearing at the end of a word ( e.g. , J V ) . |
| 4 | Yet neither club commands very great support and even a Second Division Hartlepool or Darlington perhaps struggling at the foot of the division would be unlikely to attract more than 56,000 per game . |
| 5 | Athelstan sat looking at her in wonderment , constantly marvelling at the difference in women , contrasting this hag to the beauty of Lady Isabella . |
| 6 | Er and therefore it looks at erm the indirect impact of development erm and it 's it 's more sophisticated one might say than merely looking at the quality of the land . |
| 7 | No have a look , you 're only looking at the beginning of it here try again |
| 8 | The book is also universally regarded as McGahern 's masterpiece , a view probably best expressed by playwright Tom Kilroy who described ‘ Amongst Women ’ as ‘ one of the most significant achievements in Irish fiction ’ and suggested that McGahern ‘ is obviously writing at the fullness of his power . ’ |
| 9 | Erm right so looking at the details of those , right what we 've , what we 're actually saying then is that if erm you , you would want to provide that income or want to make sure that that , that income was available should you die tomorrow ? |
| 10 | Therefore , they were left with the option of investing millions of pounds or closing them , and perhaps looking at the building of a new reactor . |
| 11 | In Washington , Morton Stannard had listened to the rage of Zack as the spools unwound on the conference-table in the Situation Room , to which the committee had repaired to avoid the Long Tom cameras constantly peering at the windows of the Cabinet Room . |
| 12 | Far from creating a feeling of dissatisfaction , the opening up of such discussions frequently seemed to give them an opportunity to face questions that had been suppressed , but none the less niggling at the back of their minds . |
| 13 | Although Goblins and Squigs have different movement rates , the whole unit keeps together moving at the speed of the Goblins . |
| 14 | ‘ Steps have been taken to ameliorate the situation , but these are merely tinkering at the edges of a wider , more fundamental issue — the system which all of us have to operate can not cope with today 's problems . |
| 15 | ‘ Steps have been taken to ameliorate the situation , but these are merely tinkering at the edges of a wider , more fundamental issue — the system can not cope with today 's problems ’ |
| 16 | We 're only hoping at the end of this year , hopefully the company will incest in it . |
| 17 | In fact , behind the bland constitutional concern to protect human rights through a Bill of Rights , there often lurks a partisan and intensely political concern to restrict the role of the state because of an attachment to a theory of limited government , born of a desire to use the law to defend the private sphere and capitalism , so hitting at the possibility of socialism and the democratic road to its attainment . |
| 18 | A splashy Belle-epoque tableau literally bursting at the edges with tumbling patrons leaping from the stage , frantic dancers , several pairs of identical twins and top-hatted gentlemen consorting with masked beauties , it was most entertaining decoration , and seemed reasonably estimated at $100–150,000 , though it sold to an American collector ( widely believed to be Iris and Gerald Cantor ) for a stunning $650,000 ( £373,500 ) . |
| 19 | Corbett , gently dreaming at the end of a bench , could well believe it and wondered if this time Satan would search him out . |
| 20 | Almost , you know and they said they were better , we were right looking at the stage over this time . |
| 21 | There she was , sitting forlornly in a corner and , unlike all the other dogs , making no noise , just gazing at the floor in a philosophical way . |
| 22 | That was particularly true now that land values were no longer inflating at the rate of the last decade or so . |
| 23 | Where just walking at the moment at cottage hospital now . |
| 24 | If the latter , this should be done in late summer or early autumn , when the main summer growth has flowered and is beginning to wither , but new shoots are just appearing at the base of the plant . |
| 25 | And we 're just looking at the route to In the previous er conditions of service we merely mentioned the time for which you were n't entitled to sick pay and the time after which you were entitled to full sick pay which we defined , we did n't define the route . |
| 26 | I 'm just looking at the selection of flowers . |
| 27 | Just looking at the kind of programmes you 're getting on television now , erm Sunday evening there 's programme about emotions , ‘ Okay Two ’ is n't it called ? |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm just looking at the report of the officer who called on Delia Forbes . |
| 29 | A special Home Office committee is already looking at the problem with orders to report back to Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke within the next few months . |
| 30 | The movement aggravated the sensations she was already experiencing at the contact with Travis 's warm body . |