Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A taxi driver told Gloucester Crown Court that he saw two drivers laughing at each other as they roared past him nose-to-tail just before the crash . |
| 2 | She turned away , shutting her eyes to adjust them to the darkness , and then with no further hesitation she was going down the rope hand over hand , her feet and knees checking at each knot . |
| 3 | There were three poor brothers living at that time who owned nothing in the world but one pear tree . |
| 4 | This principle states that transformations apply cyclically , and that later transformations , in tinkering with the transforms already produced , deal with them as completed units undergoing at most peripheral changes in this later re-arrangement . |
| 5 | The female still lay there , watery eyes staring at some remote distance from which she waited to be recalled . |
| 6 | " Well , Indonesia chickens fly — look ! " he said , accelerating towards a group of hens pecking at some minor accident on the road ahead . |
| 7 | These are examples of synchronic analysis : slicing through the relationships obtaining at any one time in the social-cultural formation . |
| 8 | That the project 's objectives took the form they did was partly due to the particular interests of those involved and partly to a knowledge of other experimental projects operating at that time . |
| 9 | Thankful to hear the change in his tone , I responded with a less playful punch , and soon we were on our feet slapping at each other with a wild hilarity , a contest in which inevitably I was the loser . |
| 10 | He thought he might as well look over his skiing equipment , instead of listening to his parents snapping at each other . |
| 11 | Reports from the clergy in some of the affected dioceses show that they were perplexed by the variety and number of the movements emerging at this time . |
| 12 | Parents working at all levels in businesses can begin to establish empathy with the school work of their children and contribute to it in the workplace , or the school or at home . |
| 13 | Lorries will be observing three different limits and coaches going at another different speed . |
| 14 | To understand why Jews should be bothered by Catholics praying at this site it is necessary to go back to the role played by the Catholic Church in fomenting antisemitism , the passivity of the Pope during the war while the exterminations were underway and even the suspicions caused by the reception of Austrian President Kurt Waldheim , with his dubious war record , by the present Pope , John Paul II ( from Poland ) . |
| 15 | ‘ I would not have expected to accompany you on a romantic walk with your girlfriend , ’ Jenna said hotly , her cheeks flushing at this idea of being relegated to invalidity again . |
| 16 | A stay at Broniwan in the heart of Wales can be an educational experience ; guests staying at this small Victorian stone farmhouse are given the opportunity to feed the calves , milk the cows , make friends with the donkey and tend the hens . |
| 17 | It was no kindness to allow a litigant who was unsuccessful in the trial court to incur costs protesting at that result , if the decision was demonstrably correct or , as often in matrimonial disputes , if there was no ‘ right ’ answer and the trial judge must inevitably be the final arbiter . |
| 18 | So it was a , a , a firm of about a hundred years standing at that time . |
| 19 | I mostly stood on the sidelines , watching the heavy-weights raging at each other . |
| 20 | However , Ryzhkov on July 12 told the congress that production had been halted for 24 hours at 230 of the country 's 655 coalmines , with shorter stoppages occurring at many others . |
| 21 | All other others on these pages are applicable for customers booking at any time . |
| 22 | Questions looking at this sort of relationship , explicitly mentioned in the foundation list , produced low success rates . |
| 23 | We have got consultants looking at that and by September of this year we hope to report back to the council . ’ |
| 24 | An allegation that drugs are being supplied as a " liquid cash " to modify behaviour at a particular prison may point a sufficient finger at the medical officers working at that prison , even though they are not referred to by name . |
| 25 | Ten years later the 50% State-owned Gasunie announced that , with exports running at more than half of production , it was time to call a halt and all new export contracts were stopped . |
| 26 | Up to 114 trains running at any one time — Intercity , modern diesels , freight trains , overhead electrics and occasionally , the Orient Express and Royal Train . |
| 27 | He sat up , and so did I. We looked at one another like two cats glaring at each other before a fight . |
| 28 | Gabriel watched them through the knothole beside his pillow , their gaberdines stretched out above their jerking heads , like two long-legged birds pecking at each other in the rain . |
| 29 | With world manufacturing prices growing at less than 1 per cent a year , international competition prevented much passing on of higher unit labour costs . |
| 30 | In just the same way , evolution consists of genes spreading at each other 's expense , but many , perhaps most , genetic mechanisms are about enforcing common interest of groups of genes over the selfish ambitions of the few . |