Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] at the [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 | It is much more than just looking at the ultimate consequences . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | We 'll just looking at the big book together do you want to come and join us ? |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | It looked quite terrifying — but somehow enticing at the same time . |
20 | She rubbed at her abused flesh , desperately grasping at the first straw to float into her mind . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Maggie met and talked to others she knew before finally arriving at the Commemorative Hall . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | Still fuming at the insensitive arrogance of the man she turned and left the office . |
27 | Durance was still looking at the painted woman stepping from the shadow . |
28 | Midwinter was still looking at the revolting hand . |
29 | Now , once more looking at the small boy , she said briskly , ‘ Come , make up your mind quick , Bobbie ; I know you 've bought a shipping order tonight but there 's this lady and gentleman waiting to be served . ’ |
30 | At The Hague , still aiming at the illustrated magazine market , he concentrated on figures in action , and in the process would be distracted by other subjects : by shabby house fronts , factories , drying sheds , parks , churches , refuse dumps , freight yards . |