Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | Compulsory labour involves working at a site designated by the authorities , where prisoners are under surveillance and restricted in their movements . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yes , on a Wednesday , this is the day when mummy goes teaching at school in the afternoon |
| 7 | She turned back to the typewriter to avoid looking at his face . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Captains of industry know ogling at me Is |
| 11 | He was walking with his mum in Chicago when two men in a car began firing at three others . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Someone on the roof started shooting at her . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | No Swindon fan likes looking at the league table just now but the Hammers have lost their last two and let in seven goals |
| 16 | Dutch police have the power to confiscate a vehicle found speeding at 70 kilometres per hour more than the legal level . |
| 17 | ‘ Whenever I stand in the middle of a big field , ’ she said , ‘ I expect some harpy to come flying at me with a hockey stick . |
| 18 | After the shop girl stopped giggling at my enquiry , she explained , handkerchief on mouth , that Brack Loaves with rings inside are a Halloween tradition . |
| 19 | After Children in Flight , parcels of food and clothing started arriving at Dovercourt . |
| 20 | Harry had tensed at the criticism , but Scarface laughed and the whole bar started roaring at Bull 's subtlety and wit . |
| 21 | The girl started clawing at Maggie . |
| 22 | There seemed little point in er a wife and a child sitting looking at their husband/father er with no clothes on . |
| 23 | Her most recent work implies looking at reality through a web of membranes which is in some way suggestive of the substance of the eye itself . |
| 24 | This sequence is carried out by hardware , which also checks that the stack pointer remains pointing at a location within the stack area . |
| 25 | Traffic problems on the ringroad , particularly around Bondgate roundabout , have vexed motorists at peak times and this was one area the council intended looking at quite soon , said Mr Alan Docherty , of Darlington planning department . |
| 26 | ‘ What 's wrong ? ’ asked his mother as the boy stood staring at the moving hand rail . |
| 27 | For example , though an access road might be designed to encourage speeds below 30 km/h , there is no law to prevent driving at 50 . |
| 28 | The inner door opened , and a square-shaped woman in a brown overall stood glaring at them . |
| 29 | When the clock has been destroyed , the rest of the objects in the room cease attacking at once . |
| 30 | Praxis believes once the independent software vendor community starts nibbling at its bait then the momentum behind ANDF will gather irreversible pace . |