Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BBC commentator Brooking ( 44 ) admitted speeding at Ketteringham in Norfolk . |
| 2 | He had been taught drawing at Eton by ‘ Sammy ’ and Sidney Evans , of the long-established dynasty of drawing masters , and in Oxford at the Ruskin School and by the Slade professor ( Sir ) Charles Holmes [ q.v. ] , but he was over forty before his individual style was formed . |
| 3 | After I have put the phone down I sit gazing at Kyle on the opposite side of the airwell . |
| 4 | Yesterday Elstob , of Trafalgar Terrace , Darlington , admitted wounding at Teesside Crown Court . |
| 5 | Not necessarily one 's own physical good looks — some of the battalions of the style fascists look as if their mothers should have considered smothering at birth — but the look of others who do not look right ( a subtle but fundamental difference ) . |
| 6 | Anyway , ’ she reminded him indignantly , ‘ you should n't need keeping at bay . |
| 7 | Rather be caught cheating at cards or forging a friend 's signature . |
| 8 | On Sunday April 26 , Britain 's first organic food market starts trading at Spitalfields in east London . |
| 9 | Now if she starts laughing at Billy and Russell , you know she do n't wan na |
| 10 | Mrs Maij-Weggen was in her official Ford Scorpio when her chauffeur was caught driving at 90mph in a 60mph zone . |
| 11 | Now there 's time for Peter to relax and enjoy looking at photographs of a recent trip to France organised by the centre . |
| 12 | After some detailed survey work members of the Glasgow South branch ; Bill McMath and George Houston ( also assisted by QAI Jonathan Simmons ) including a night visit in the pouring rain which involved peering at cracks in the outer wall with a torch , a detailed proposal was submitted to the Council . |
| 13 | It beats waiting at Heathrow every time . |
| 14 | The shock was such that she stopped crying immediately , but what was worse , she stopped crying at home as well and felt simply awful , physically and mentally , until able to cry again . |
| 15 | As soon as a domestic hen chick hatches it starts pecking at grains that look like food , and as it grows older its aim at food grains improves . |
| 16 | He also found learning at school a trial . |
| 17 | Some may think it foolish to restart playing at Park Avenue when fixtures are in such short supply , but a group of people dedicated to keeping first-class cricket on the famous ground have guaranteed Yorkshire £10,000 to stage a match there . |
| 18 | Our players are beginning to dread playing at home . |
| 19 | The Great Central Railway 's track gang lay the head-shunt to the Cattle dock siding at Swithland . |
| 20 | He must have been equally surprised to see her but he recovered first , and while Rachel was still floundering to find something to say and Julie was murmuring something about hoping he would enjoy working at OBEX he said , ‘ Actually , we 've met before . |
| 21 | I stopped sleeping at night . |
| 22 | Lindsay , 38 , of Knowle , near Solihull , West Midlands , said later : ‘ It beats shopping at Tesco and certainly livened up a dull afternoon . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ A few days later the army assembled outside Edinburgh and a ghostly voice was heard shouting at midnight . |
| 24 | We also have a a budgeting process er for the er for the firm 's year and we 're right in the throes of that right now for next year for ninety four , ninety five but it wo n't be any surprise to you that the recession er hit the office like any other business or the businesses that you go and see , er quite significantly , er the businesses that we 've been looking after , they 've stopped investing , they 've stopped looking at I T issues and have become very cautious and they 've basically taken stock as to where their position is . |
| 25 | ’ That ‘ familiar in fiction ’ is deadly , suggesting as it does that the author has stopped looking at life and has purloined his Andre from the picaresque , in which rogues are invariably charming and whose advances are never rejected . |
| 26 | It often involves looking at problems afresh and giving serious consideration to ideas which have traditionally been regarded as impossible or is practicable . |
| 27 | Because it involves looking at text and response on the three different linguistic levels , teachers find themselves thinking and talking about language itself quite differently . |
| 28 | Transray convexity involves looking at cost behaviour in the vertical plane along ( say ) the line AB . |
| 29 | 47% admitted to enjoying looking at photographs of the Royal Family in newspapers and magazines , 50% claimed that they did not . |
| 30 | ‘ What am I ? ’ she asked looking at Tumbleweed , and then began to recite in a sing-song voice , ‘ with a stick in me hand and a stone in me throat , I walk through the land in me shiny , red coat . ’ |