Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | A vote given or poll demanded by proxy or by the duly authorised corporate representative of a recognised body shall be valid notwithstanding the previous determination of the authority of the person voting or demanding a poll unless notice of the determination was received by the Company at the office or at such other place at which the instrument of proxy was duly deposited before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote is given or the poll demanded or ( in the case of a poll taken otherwise than on the same day as the meeting or adjourned meeting ) the time appointed for taking the poll . |
| 2 | A vote given or poll demanded by proxy or by the duly authorised corporate representative of a recognised body shall be valid notwithstanding the previous determination of the authority of the person voting or demanding a poll unless notice of the determination was received by the Company at the office or at such other place at which the instrument of proxy was duly deposited before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote is given or the poll demanded or ( in the case of a poll taken otherwise than on the same day as the meeting or adjourned meeting ) the time appointed for taking the poll . |
| 3 | You could read very little into Went to see A Hard Day 's Night — Fab or Went swimming at CC . |
| 4 | I drove via Barking to call in on Duncan the Drunken before the traffic built up , but his garage was locked and that meant calling at the house . |
| 5 | Astonishing that she should remember that and not what that weird word ‘ tardis ’ that kept battering at her brain meant . |
| 6 | Then there was a long pause during which Sophie drank her coffee and avoided looking at her companion . |
| 7 | The detour was to Holmstroyd and involved stopping at the jetty . |
| 8 | Humanism considered the most powerful or most noble within society to be the best readers and directed writing at them not exclusively because writers looked to this class for generous rewards or for some snobbish appeal . |
| 9 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |
| 10 | He dropped my wrists and began picking at the bread , rolling bits of it into little grey balls . |
| 11 | Of our five Greats students Barbara Davies ( Mrs Mitchell ) remained in Oxford and began teaching at St. Anne 's soon after her marriage to a tutor at Worcester . |
| 12 | Charlie now found himself in front and began firing at the Germans as their heads popped up from behind the dug-outs . |
| 13 | But the second time round he became restless and began biting at the rope and making playful snaps at Angela 's heels , then at her basket . |
| 14 | At once he ran to the house and began scratching at the door . |
| 15 | I picked up a book , but put it down again and began looking at a tiny red spider on the leaf of a geranium , ad lost count of time . |
| 16 | Albert fell prey to his nightly fantasies of living with Bella again and began looking at Jim with rage in his heart toward the wet blanket who was preventing it . |
| 17 | The group was given the go-ahead and began looking at all options . |
| 18 | The prosecution at Teesside Crown Couret claims Bruce walked into Jenny Knight 's home in Middleton St George , near Darlington , and began looking at her belongings and putting aside pieces he wanted . |
| 19 | For the sake of appearances , he picked up another brush and began swatting at the sleeves and lapels of his suit . |
| 20 | The first Russian to mount the wall fell at once to a bullet from one of Thiercelin 's men , but now a slavonic deluge swamped the wall in a wave of green and grey , bayonets fixed , overran the Frenchmen on the terrace and began smashing at the door . |
| 21 | Without a word , Ted climbed out of the car and began pulling at the hedgerow . |
| 22 | for a moment he thought Isay was his corporal in Derry , and began smiling at him ; but he was dead . |
| 23 | He threw away the useless handle , collapsed on the linoleum and started scrabbling at his clothes with pawlike hands . |
| 24 | One day just below their balcony a man had got out of his car and gone to the car in front and opened that car 's door and started shouting at the man inside , and then the car behind had started hooting and others had joined in . |
| 25 | The last time we spoke of it , about five months ago , he just lost his temper and started shouting at me , saying it was my fault . |
| 26 | ‘ They reckoned without a DK with a death wish , ’ he roared , and started jabbing at the controls . |
| 27 | She put down her cup and took a tissue out of her trendy cardigan and started dabbing at her skirt . |
| 28 | After a while , he removed his mouth from her nipple and lay looking at her breasts , as though to memorize every curve and line . |
| 29 | Bewildered , she slid into bed beneath a vast grey and emerald silk quilt , and lay staring at the patterns of light thrown on the ceiling by the white bedside lamp . |
| 30 | Giant-fiend of a hundred hands , with a shower of arrowy death-pangs he transpierced me , and then he became a wolf , and lay a-gnawing at my bones ! |