Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But all one feels is a talented adjunct desperately grabbing at officer status . ’ |
| 32 | That accident victim , trucker Harry Martinson , is still recovering at home in Hatfield Road , Ipswich , following the accident in April . |
| 33 | Instead he led an increasingly wild campaign , always hinting at treason in high places but never proving it . |
| 34 | Sleep can be defined as a period of reduced consciousness usually occurring at night , during which most body functions are slow or inactive . |
| 35 | Was there maybe a sneaking feeling that , if he was n't laughing at her , he was usually laughing at life in general , and that he might be quite fun to be with ? |
| 36 | Occasionally I spent a day in London , always returning at night to keep my mother company . |
| 37 | ‘ So that 's why you keep your transcripts at home , is it ? ’ said Hilda , still looking at Kronweiser with an expression of absorbed interest . |
| 38 | Still looking at section 3(1) , I point out that ‘ any later assumption of a right to it ’ ( that is , a right to the property ) amounts to an appropriation of a right to it and that normally ‘ a right to it ’ means a right to the property and not a right in it . ’ |
| 39 | The first sign that Harriet had not lost her wild instincts came in her third year , when she left the house and started to go off hunting at night . |
| 40 | She came down to Riverside with me , watched as we rehearsed then followed me into the loo and gave me a blow job — something I just was n't used to as a 17-year-old grammar school boy still living at home with his mum and dad . |
| 41 | Edward was still living at home , preparing without a coach for the Civil Service examination . |
| 42 | On the other hand , there were much more likely to be single children still living at home . |
| 43 | The boys , of course , were still living at home , Arthur working as a plumber 's apprentice and Ted and Sam still at school . |
| 44 | If you are over 18 and still living at home with your family , you will receive your own Poll Tax bill . |
| 45 | But Frances never neglects Joanne , the only child still living at home . |
| 46 | Were you still living at home ? |
| 47 | Are they all still living at home ? |
| 48 | I told you I 'm still living at home , right ? |
| 49 | They are people who are old enough to go to war , and I think that there is a difficulty , you know , a major amoral difficulty or ethical difficulty in attempting to continue to treat young people as if they were still living at home and were not young adults but were really children . |
| 50 | Despite the contempt expressed in the past for the American principle of ‘ publish or perish ’ , British universities are more and more looking at volume of publication — otherwise , ‘ performance indicators ’ — as a sign of virtue . |
| 51 | Grandparents were observed supporting parents , the other parent usually remaining at home for work or family reasons . |
| 52 | At a time when standards of living were rapidly rising at home , our goods abroad , manufactured with the disproportionate vulnerability of too many man-hours at high wage rates , became unattractively priced . |
| 53 | He described them as ‘ associates ’ and tried to visit every store at least once a year ( always staying at budget motels ) . |
| 54 | For once she would probably have been better off staying at home as far as the weather was concerned . |
| 55 | Eh erm , when you slap her tits at quarter to three are they still swinging at quarter to six ? |
| 56 | Er I mean if he were responsive and would work and would try things for himself but it , it 's , it 's like hacking at concrete with a knife . |
| 57 | I says I think , this year , you 'd be better off stopping at home . |
| 58 | In the winter of 1940–41 , having moved to Shamley Green , he contracted influenza which he could not shake off : he spent half of January and most of February in bed , and was still recuperating at home in March . |
| 59 | He was still recuperating at home a few nights later when a rustling from the rafters above his bed proved to be yet another python which had entered the village and was lying in wait . |
| 60 | Freddie did not manage to keep us in the Cup against the powerful Rangers outfit but , usually playing at centre-forward , he steadily repaid that fee several times over during the first five post-war seasons , for not only has his tally of 48 League goals only been exceeded by six players here at The Palace since then , but his goals were scored in struggling Palace teams , which only once finished in the upper half of the League table . |