Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it is , your Council has effectively decided to challenge Structure Plan 1985 , policies HP8 and EP5 , since your decision to support housing at Colt Hill was made with no reference to timing . |
| 2 | It had been one of those deep , deep sleeps ; the kind when you do n't know a thing until your mum starts yelling at you for the umpteenth time that you 're going to be late for school if you do n't get up . |
| 3 | On the back of Wall Street 's overnight strength , the FT-SE 100 cash index rose 33 points at the outset and , with the futures index opening at a hefty premium , looked poised to turn in a record-setting performance . |
| 4 | Compulsory labour involves working at a site designated by the authorities , where prisoners are under surveillance and restricted in their movements . |
| 5 | Bella avoided looking at Joe . |
| 6 | The new picture is then assessed and another remedy given starting at the lowest degrees of dynamization ( LM 1 ) regardless of what potency level the previous remedy had reached . |
| 7 | Bill senior , who will celebrate his 90th birthday on 25 August , has the unique place in the company 's history of being the last employee to continue working at the old Etruria factory . |
| 8 | Richard avoided looking at her , for fear she should think he meant anything particular by it . |
| 9 | Yes , on a Wednesday , this is the day when mummy goes teaching at school in the afternoon |
| 10 | Dr Neil avoided looking at a bridling McAllister , particularly when Mrs Darrell went on to say , still in the same shriek , ‘ Hope she 's honest , Neil . |
| 11 | Once , Ken came knocking at her door . |
| 12 | She turned back to the typewriter to avoid looking at his face . |
| 13 | Everett , who had been ordered to take a rest at 98 trips , was testing aircraft at the Group Maintenance Unit when he heard that there was a spare aircraft going a-begging at his old squadron . |
| 14 | The samples go back over 30 000 years , and they show that after being constant for most of that time the methane concentration began to increase in 1580 ( Geophysical Research Letters , vol 9. p 1221 ) At the end of the 16th century , the methane concentration began increasing at a rate of 0.114 ppmv per century ( parts per million by volume ) and around 1915 the rate accelerated to the present figure of 2.5 ppmv per century — if the data can be taken at face value . |
| 15 | I wish Kelvin was here ah ah ah Oh I hope the tape recorder can pick this up , because , erm The wind keeps coming at me I do n't even though why I 've come sho oh yeah , I wan na buy something , do n't I ? so what I say now to people , when they say something to me , I go I go and I say no actually I 'm not but never mind . |
| 16 | Captains of industry know ogling at me Is |
| 17 | All the animals began shouting at poor Anabelle . |
| 18 | He was walking with his mum in Chicago when two men in a car began firing at three others . |
| 19 | ‘ If the number of candidates keeps rising at the present rate ’ , he said , ‘ then by the year 2010 the entire population of the world will have a SCOTVEC National Certificate ! ’ |
| 20 | Eleanor started hinting at an affair . |
| 21 | You state that ‘ Japan 's foreign-aid programme directs spending at infrastructure ( which companies can make money out of ) rather than technical health ( which they can not ) . |
| 22 | Someone on the roof started shooting at her . |
| 23 | He said the EC guidelines included looking at design and layout of offices , eyesight tests , rest facilities for pregnant women and separate rest areas for smokers and non-smokers . |
| 24 | Lucy kept looking at her watch . |
| 25 | I like it when when wh it floods in town and you can go down and watch foreigners standing looking at the roofs of their cars floating down the Ouse and you think Yeah ! . |
| 26 | I du n no , er you know you can put woman staying at home having the child for instance when there are n't enough children to fill the schools realize that having children is a very important in economic values what with nations increasing staying at home |
| 27 | At eighty five bid standing standing at eighty five against you all seated now , at ninety pounds , standing at the back and I 'll sell at ninety pounds , are you all done , ninety pounds ninety five just in time one hundred one ten one twenty one thirty one thirty still on the left at the back at one thirty , any more now at a hundred and thirty pounds ? |
| 28 | No Swindon fan likes looking at the league table just now but the Hammers have lost their last two and let in seven goals |
| 29 | Alyssia giggled , and Piers continued looking at their visitor , unamused . |
| 30 | Donna sat looking at the box for long moments . |