Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | His elbows were on the table edge , his heavily ringed fingers idly scratching at a thick black beard as though it aided his concentration . |
| 2 | It took her some time to get used to that but she got the knack of it in the end , and they spent hours together shooting at marks , or at rabbits on the Down or pigeons in the high trees at the forest edge . |
| 3 | At night , while John 's impatient body sleeps , I listen to the waves loosely slapping at the side of the stilled ship . |
| 4 | The ratings are only approximate and even where manufacturers quote a temperature as ‘ good down to … ’ these refer only to valley performances so camping at higher levels will require a warmer bag . |
| 5 | The pupils decided that they were the same in that context and were satisfied that there were only three different shapes if they did not allow fences in the middle or squares just touching at the corners . |
| 6 | So landowners , from the king down to relatively small provincial lords , founded boroughs right and left , especially where they saw merchants and traders already congregating at some convenient spot — near the protection of a castle or an abbey , which were considerable markets also , at some important river-crossing , and so on . |
| 7 | But for larger numbers of mutational steps , even in the case of the biomorphs with their nine little genes , the mathematical space of all possible trajectories is so vast that the chance of two trajectories ever arriving at the same point becomes vanishingly small . |
| 8 | Several men , navy with gold braid in evidence , turned towards him as Delaney walked over , eyes automatically glancing at the geography and configurations on the plastic : Atlantic , beyond the equator . |
| 9 | The earlier 1pm start to Section 1 matches has virtually ruled out schoolboy cricketers , who are also denied Touche Ross Cup selection with ties now beginning at noon . |
| 10 | Place in gallery with no windows and visitors everywhere looking at pictures on walls and it is something else . |
| 11 | Elizabeth agreed to do our programme after we 'd spent five years gently hammering at her representatives — and of course we were n't the only people after her , the whole world was beating at her door . |
| 12 | They designed job descriptions , terms of employment and time sheets for support workers ; ( they were to be paid at a rate equivalent to home helps and care attendants , with increased payments for unsocial hours ; there was also to be a lower rate of payment for workers merely sleeping at a sufferer 's house , compared with providing active care ) . |
| 13 | This will considerably help cash Mow problems for new haulage firms and hauliers still operating at a modest turnover . |
| 14 | The news that Sky had beaten a rival last minute ITV bid of £200m was greeted with anger by MPs and sports viewers still smarting at being deprived of cricket World Cup live coverage by the satellite station . |
| 15 | Of six senior editors still working at the station , two are Serbs , two are Slav Muslims , and two are Croats . |
| 16 | Due to an unending stream of publicity in all manner of publications , there were constant applications by post and from dancers simply arriving at the office . |
| 17 | Overall , property results continue to worsen with annual returns now running at 6.2 per cent . |
| 18 | ‘ Innumerable bureaucrats still reeling at the news . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Why should they be , and the oaths fairly flying at Edinburgh ? |
| 20 | The Grand National course narrows approaching the winning post and bends round to the left immediately after , and with crowds manically screaming at him in the stands and on both rails and directly in front of him it would hardly be surprising if Devon Loch had suddenly been startled by the deafening noise . |
| 21 | Eyes bulging , he collapsed , hands feebly clawing at his mouth . |
| 22 | At the end of the first day ( a long day , which had our reporters still scribbling at 10.20 pm ) , the chart had acquired two heartfelt anonymous complaints : ‘ Working with — not against ’ and ‘ Valuing everybody 's contribution ’ . |
| 23 | Towards the top of the hill he made two bad jumping errors but these made little difference to his progress , and with Fifty Dollars More falling at the final open ditch only Combs Ditch looked to have any chance of getting in the way of a Dickinson clean sweep . |
| 24 | On the other hand , there were much more likely to be single children still living at home . |
| 25 | At first I was very surprised by the average standard of play ; it 's fantastically high when you consider cuts regularly falling at 2 or 3-under-par . ’ |
| 26 | The photographers reluctantly put their glasses down and picked up their cameras as the PRO , his hands daintily plucking at the collar of the mink , prepared to unveil the famous figure When every camera was in place , he whisked the coat away . |
| 27 | If DCE is accepted as a de facto standard , Novell says it may embed the modules NetWare , although it says this is unlikely to happen unless OSF reviews its DCE licensing fees currently running at some $2,500 . |
| 28 | Progressive has had an exceptionally good start to 1993 , said Mr Webb , with demand for mortgages currently running at around 50pc above last year 's level . |
| 29 | Letters regularly occur in certain combinations and positions with , for example , the letter Q always being followed by U , and a number of letters rarely appearing at the end of a word ( e.g. , J V ) . |
| 30 | In Washington , Morton Stannard had listened to the rage of Zack as the spools unwound on the conference-table in the Situation Room , to which the committee had repaired to avoid the Long Tom cameras constantly peering at the windows of the Cabinet Room . |