Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is an elaborate system of inspecting and reporting at the local level , and monitoring at the national level by the Council for the Care of Churches , and at diocesan level by Diocesan Advisory Committees . |
| 2 | In the early Liverpool days of Big Flame the comrades had been obsessed with the potential of Ford workers as leaders of the British revolution , and had put great effort into organizing and recruiting at the local Halewood plant . |
| 3 | His rescuer was smiling , pulling and pointing at the tartan plaid that had protected the young Highlander in his wanderings across eastern Europe . |
| 4 | Outside the gallery a group of curious bystanders gathered , staring and leering at the nude painting . |
| 5 | She needed to be caressed and he caressed her , massaging and pinching at the puckered rose-pink nipples , until the heat burst into searing flame and wildfire licked over her body . |
| 6 | Modernity began in earnest with this industrialism — like the starting up of a great steam-driven machine , straining and clanking at the mechanical bit and snorting with impatience to be off . |
| 7 | And that wind nuzzling and whistling at the double-glazed window . |
| 8 | Cardiff saw its wildly thrashing and monstrous arms , beating and tearing at the dented grey metal of the cabinet . |
| 9 | Killion raced down at almost three times the German 's speed , and saw his shots plucking and smashing at the lumbering fuselage . |