Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back on the decision a few years later , he interpreted it in these terms : " What I wanted was some counterweight to my changeable and restless inclinations , a science that could be pursued with cool impartiality , with cold logic , with regular work , without its results touching me at all deeply . " |
| 2 | Now you know the rules , set a good example to other drivers by using them at all times ; who knows , they may even copy your driving style and do it right too ! |
| 3 | Fear of side effects prevent a further 25 to 33 per cent using them at all . |
| 4 | ‘ You should n't be eating them at all . |
| 5 | Even if someone believes the most secure and pernicious lies , he will not be able to help himself from doubting them at some time . |
| 6 | It 's this terrible pseudo-rational nagging by just carrying on normally , as if she were n't nagging me at all . |
| 7 | And Fleischmann received a fax from Harwell and learned that they were seeing nothing at all . |
| 8 | Similarly , we could postulate some alien being capable of seeing nothing at all in the range of wavelengths we call ‘ light ’ but able to see a whole range of colours in the ultraviolet or infrared . |
| 9 | Wooing first John and then Richard , Philip succeeded in keeping them at each other 's throats , or at Henry 's coat-tails , for several more years . |
| 10 | Technologically and economically it requires more explaining than is now possible , not least because of the loss or destruction or records , to say nothing of not keeping them at all . |
| 11 | Or do you not see any point in keeping them at all ? is the number to dial . |
| 12 | The Directive 's provisions are also so flexible , because of the difficulty in reaching a consensus among the member states and commentators , that there are grave doubts about whether there is any point in adopting them at all . |
| 13 | ‘ as if he only happens to be with us by accident and could just as easily be amusing himself at some other job elsewhere . ’ |
| 14 | If your next-door neighbours insist on blasting you at all hours with Wagner 's Gottedammerung " , be thankful : it might have been Heavy Metal . |
| 15 | Second , the welfare state works as a kind of ‘ savings bank ’ , taking money at some points in each person 's life and returning it at another . |
| 16 | You need to be far more dynamic at the front , launching yourself at all sorts of angles . |
| 17 | Er , very wary of those , really , and we 're not recommending them at all . |
| 18 | This was the last day of these services , and there is talk of reviving them at some time in the future but using modern Sprinter units . |
| 19 | A brand-new Tavern , redolent of fresh mortar and size , and fronting nothing at all , had taken for its sign The Rail way Arms ; but that might be rash enterprise — and then it hoped to sell drink to the workmen . |
| 20 | not hunting them at all ? |
| 21 | picking me at half past seven tonight love . |
| 22 | ‘ While I might have had difficulty believing you at that particular moment two years ago , it was two years ago . |
| 23 | Father Abbot , here is a strange saying , for she came to me when I was not seeking her at all , when I knew nothing of her . |
| 24 | There 's no mathematical way of defining it at that point . |
| 25 | But the means by which the Futurists were expressing themselves at this point were largely borrowed from the Cubists , and occasionally in some less well-informed criticism , the two terms became synonymous . |
| 26 | Ethical problems will surface , for no power-based organization likes to have its idiosyncrasies made public , and the anthropologist who is a member of the family and not merely a temporary visitor to the ‘ backyard ’ exotica can find that writing anything at all becomes crucially problematic . |
| 27 | I have no doubt about it that the government are urging us at this moment , er I I am concerned about that , they are urging us by the er |
| 28 | She told me about seeing you at that nightclub . ’ |
| 29 | Abuelo said , coughing , ‘ It is Shelley , is it , waking me at this unearthly hour ? ’ |
| 30 | The body came ashore into the grass with monstrous and majestic indifference , for the first time caring nothing at all what impression it made . |