Example sentences of "the [noun] [adv] [v-ing] at [art] " 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 | With the club now languishing at the bottom of the table they were in desperate need of a football visionary , a new footballing messiah . |
| 3 | Going over the top e.g. screaming at the kids over something minor |
| 4 | Cranston sat on the bed just staring at the corpse as if the man was alive and the coroner wished to draw him into friendly conversation . |
| 5 | With guidance the client will learn to climb the ladder gradually starting at the bottom one rung at a time . |
| 6 | It was refreshing to hear the audience actually giggling at the humour and the NBT shows that ballet can be fun . |
| 7 | Newcastle may have their Messiah manager and their financial rescue package in place , but they could n't afford to turn on the floodlights in the fading light on Saturday and they ca n't ignore the darkness still descending at the foot of the Second Division table . |