Example sentences of "[v-ing] their [noun] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did n't appear to mind me playing a double game , allying with each in turn , then becoming their opponent at the next round . |
| 2 | Bernice and Defries were lying on the floor , edging backwards while firing their blasters at the black-robed androids . |
| 3 | Two more of the creatures hovered around the craft , walking over the wings and flashing their teeth at the hysterical passengers . |
| 4 | But shareholders can still make their investment work for them — by filling their trolleys at the right superstores this weekend . |
| 5 | Mr Patrick McIntyre , a South London publican and former New Scotland Yard detective who wrote a regular crime column for the South London Chronicle , was another who cast doubt on the Hooligan panic , accusing newspapers of being in their ‘ silly season ’ and of taking the matter up merely ‘ as a suitable and sensational means of filling their columns at the present moment ’ . |
| 6 | The women of the other crofts were already at the burn , filling their pails at the freezing cold stream . |
| 7 | The leader of the council , Robert Gould , said later he accepted that the 1.5 per cent pay increase was totally unrealistic , but said the unions should be directing their anger at the Conservative Government , which was to blame for the situation . |
| 8 | Writing later , in 1937 , J. B. Priestley 's main concern was to stress the Englishness of Chaplin ( though he did concede that the Chaplin symbol was half-French in inspiration ) and he talked of him as being ‘ the greatest humourist since Dickens ’ and of belonging above all to London 's East End and to ‘ the swarms of bright-eyed urchins who are thumbing their noses at the nearest policemen ’ . |
| 9 | Holding their shotguns at the ready , they threaded their way cautiously through the closely packed trees following the thin beams of their torches . |
| 10 | He can turn his head away from the screams , the pleas , the heart-rending shouts that split the night air — suffering human beings screeching their injustice at the outside world . |
| 11 | Yesterday , when the Government were defending their postition at the United Nations in Geneva on interrogation procedures and denying that anything untoward was happening , settlements were being awarded in Belfast courts to people who had claimed that they had been assaulted in just those circumstances . |
| 12 | WALES , the Soviet Union and West Germany are three new nations making their debut at the 15th Hong Kong Sevens , to be staged from 31 March to 1 April next year . |
| 13 | Six Welsh officials and 10 players made the trip , many changing their mind at the last minute . |
| 14 | Ekelund and Tollison ( 1986 ) and Lewin ( 1988 ) note that the Austrian school ( associated in particular with Hayek ) see the macro consequences as being the result of microeconomic-motivated actions and some macro actions finding their impact at the micro level ; for example , industrial , regional and other policies often adopt subsidies to maintain an output and employment target ( see chapter 5 ) in a particular industry . |
| 15 | They went to Oakport Woods , leaving their bicycles at the big iron gate , and walking with their books over the grass to the belt of trees along Oakport Lake . |
| 16 | Jonadab and his two sons were just scraping their boots at the back door , prior to going in for a mug of tea . |