Example sentences of "[vb pp] [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | NOW YOU 'VE stopped laughing at the idea of Kevin Costner in tights , you can have a chuckle at the cast rumoured to be lined up for his Robin Hood movie Prince Of Thieves — Danny DeVito ( above ) as Friar Tuck , either Patsy Kensit , Emily Lloyd or Imogen Stubbs as Maid Marian and as Robin 's big buddy Little John , John Goodman , who is reported to have been paid $750,000 just to stay interested in playing Fred Flintstone while the producers look for a script |
2 | Terence was Jessica 's cousin , who had come sniffing at the Cultra house a couple of times early in Karen 's visit . |
3 | I had to excuse myself and go out of the room , or I would have collapsed laughing at the doctor 's reaction . |
4 | In line with their wish to introduce greater solemnity into worship , the Arminian bishops insisted that the parish clergy should incorporate into their church services a number of ritualistic features regarded by ministers and parishioners alike as ‘ popish ’ ; these included bowing at the name of Jesus , genuflection , kneeling to receive communion , and the insistence that women should wear veils while being churched following childbirth . |
5 | This decision divided the independent types from the gregarious ; some thoroughly enjoyed staying at the hostel for years : |
6 | This tradition happily has been continued by his successors whose duties have included presiding at the Annual General Meeting , an unpredictable , lively affair where it has been known for election to the Board to be determined by the toss of a coin ! |
7 | I can remember several policemen being reported missing at the police station where they were on duty . |
8 | This was out of 329 volumes which were left after 150 titles were reported missing at the time of the 1865 review . |
9 | I should have stopped looking at the pictures then , when past and present had clashed in my mind and made no meaning , but I went on . |
10 | I 'd also stopped looking at the sculpture . |
11 | In vertebrates , shortly after gastrulation , the brain can be seen forming at the anterior end of the embryo . |
12 | ‘ Then how do you explain this ? ’ he said , reaching for a folder that she had n't noticed lying at the end of the settee . |
13 | It 's claimed as the hangar burned the two men were seen pointing at the flames and laughing . |
14 | They just want to be seen calling at the house . ’ |
15 | Usually seen soaring at a considerable height . |
16 | They could be seen flinching at the hammering of fists against the sides of the buses . |
17 | When a big shoal is feeding dozens of bream can be seen rolling at the same time , all facing the same way . |
18 | And so that the village benefits from the wood in some way , erm like there 's a teak plantation they 've got going at the moment , and in ten years time , the teak will be used to carry electricity , so that the village can have some electricity as well , I mean it 's to do with giving the village something as well as trying to help the environment . |
19 | The end of the coding region is indicated by a U. Translation is shown initiating at the first methionine at nucleotide 76 . |
20 | At the rear of the idol , seven round indents are formed beginning at the base of the spine and extending to the head . |
21 | The steward closed the door behind him and our shadows danced against the wall as we stood transfixed looking at the coffin lid , half-expecting it to be pushed aside and the corpse to rise and step out . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | She asked for the secretary and launched on a long story about phoning from a restaurant where a pair of leather gloves had been found apparently left by the lady with Mr Johnston whom one of the waiters had remembered seeing at the sports club . |
24 | This was the explanation of the beast Allen had found dying at the forest edge , its leg broken from a slip on the rocks . |
25 | Some times a whole period is spent looking at a ladybird . |
26 | His formative years were spent living at a small terraced house in , a house which still remains in use today . |
27 | She was found wandering at a golf course , near Stockport , Cheshire , on Monday . |
28 | Some of these engines ran for well over a century before being discarded , and particularly fine and huge specimens can be found operating at the Kew steam engine museum . |
29 | Mind you 're not found lying at the bottom of the steps with a broken neck like Amy Robsart . |
30 | Jim Eggleton , who was seventy , was found lying at the foot of the stairs of his council home in Russells Water , near Nettlebed … |