Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A loud banging at the front door stopped both of them in their tracks . |
| 2 | He was cut short by a loud knocking at the front door . |
| 3 | Merely looking at the final stage of supply can obscure the full range of options open to a particular firm in its choice of serving foreign markets . |
| 4 | One of the most important areas of credit management is risk assessment , not only looking at the individual customer companies concerned , but also at the current financial background in which they operate . |
| 5 | It should be a condition , for anyone thinking about development to resist trying to infer how a structure develops by only looking at the final result . |
| 6 | John Heminges said they were dark , cruel plays , and that Will was only looking at the black side of people . |
| 7 | She had very nearly done a cordon bleu cookery course after she had left school , only deciding at the last minute to reinvest her time and money in the boutique instead . |
| 8 | ‘ But in these hard times , cars are only selling at the right price . |
| 9 | Here is this man , never previously seen doing his public duty , always seen merely roaring at the Labour Party or being interviewed like any tuppeny-ha'penny minister , now occupying the despatch-box which is the only site that gives credibility to his claim to be a prime-minister-in-waiting . |
| 10 | For the rest , Friday turned out to be a bad day at Blackrock with Graham losing twice and McHugh and the Clarendon triple skipped by Mark Shannon all falling at the first hurdle . |
| 11 | We have seen already that the small heads of some dinosaurs with elongated torsos were no doubt a built-in safety factor against crippling head injuries , while naturally restricting at the same time the development of intelligence . |
| 12 | At one function staged by the Party in Schweinfurt in October 1940 , for example , the local population turned out in force to welcome U-Boat veterans at a recruiting session for the navy , but the same people ‘ were almost entirely missing at the other functions of the NSDAP ’ . |
| 13 | By different processes erm but nevertheless receding at the same rate . |
| 14 | Erm you 're just looking at a little bit that 's new and you 're forgetting about the old stuff . |
| 15 | It is much more than just looking at the ultimate consequences . |
| 16 | I mean one day , I mean I was in a customer care meeting for three hours on Monday , so obviously I lost some there , but you know , that particular day I was on a , just on the phone personally on my B M S for just over three hours , and just looking at the other things that I had to deal with . |
| 17 | We 'll just looking at the big book together do you want to come and join us ? |
| 18 | Erm , this er , again , try to be right be er try to understand the mind , instead of just , just looking at the harsh facts , the hard cold facts and trying from there . |
| 19 | On surfacing , the rate again speeds up , generally remaining at the higher level until the carbon dioxide content of the exhaled air has returned to normal — usually in a few seconds . |
| 20 | It looked quite terrifying — but somehow enticing at the same time . |
| 21 | She rubbed at her abused flesh , desperately grasping at the first straw to float into her mind . |
| 22 | The Financial Times of Feb. 28 commented that the move was likely to add to inflation , already running at an annual rate in excess of 100 per cent . |
| 23 | He took this in suddenly one morning as he was charging a girl the duty on a camera , hitting the thought like an air pocket and ludicrously yawning at the same time with his mouth shut so that the girl noticed his face lengthening like a mule 's . |
| 24 | Maggie met and talked to others she knew before finally arriving at the Commemorative Hall . |
| 25 | The crowds , eventually numbering in the thousands , evolved into a spontaneous anti-war demonstration and headed across town , disrupting traffic while shouting ‘ No blood for oil ’ and finally rallying at the United Nations building . |
| 26 | By that stage I was already working at the Canadian Embassy , and I let the staff buy some of the pictures from me , but again it was very cheaply . |
| 27 | Robert whirled round on his mother , suspecting her of some collusion with the child , but , with the wistful fondness of a woman who has finished with childbearing , Mrs Wilson was still gazing at the Twenty-fourth Imam of the Wimbledon Dharjees . |
| 28 | It was clear from the work done then that , even after a full year , major changes in unemployment , self-employment , and employment taken up and ended within the group , were still occurring at a high rate . |
| 29 | Still fuming at the insensitive arrogance of the man she turned and left the office . |
| 30 | Cardiff looked up then at the Constable , still dabbing at a fresh nosebleed with his now-crimson handkerchief . |