Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , she was shapely , in a geological sort of way , and quite intelligent as stones go but , nevertheless , the family was fast becoming alarmed at Ned 's deteriorating mental and physical condition . |
| 2 | By mid-November 1991 Bund futures contract volumes on the DTB were matching those at LIFFE . |
| 3 | And the weather , overcast with rain soon reaching all parts today , becoming heavy at times , the maximum temperatures up to ten celsius fifty fahrenheit , it 's going to be drier and brighter tomorrow . |
| 4 | His behaviour was becoming unmanageable at home . |
| 5 | You will be eating grape-nuts at breakfast next . |
| 6 | Surprise French leaders Nantes impressed despite drawing 1–1 at home to Sochaux . |
| 7 | Correcting this at home takes a minute or two with needle and thread — but I did n't have a sewing kit with me on my first outing . |
| 8 | Barnes and club-mate Ben Clarke were appearing for the Barbarians against Australia at Twickenham while their Bath colleagues were sinking 9–8 at Blundellsands to Second Division Waterloo in the third round on Saturday . |
| 9 | Things were looking brighter at half-time , thanks to an equaliser from Nick Cusack , who flew through the air with the greatest of ease , to knock home his 6th goal of the season . |
| 10 | Also raised was the quality of training available at Boucher Road . |
| 11 | Looking first at expenditure flows , we can identify total expenditures within the economy as the sum of consumption spending by the personal sector ; investment spending by the industrial and commercial sector ; investment and current spending by the government , local authorities , and the public corporations , i.e. the public sector ; and the net position with respect to imports and exports ( ‘ net ’ since imports represent expenditure on output of another economy ) , i.e. the overseas sector . |
| 12 | ‘ Which could be fun , ’ he added , looking first at Penelope and then at Ianthe . |
| 13 | Dad sat back in his chair , expecting Mr Vulcan to leave , but he paused a moment , looking first at Dad then at me , and I thought , This is it , now what 'll he say ? |
| 14 | Looking first at Telecom Gold , the major services of interest to credit managers are CCN 's Gazette and Status Reports , ICC 's British Companies Database and Full Text Accounts/Stockbroker reports , Infocheck 's Company Credit Information and Database Scan services , Jordans ' Company Financial Information and , from last month , the Infocheck Global Scan service . |
| 15 | He walked over to the coke brazier where the cooks kept the food hot : and looking first at Rogers , then at Gabriel , he tucked the little bat into the bright red fire , and walked away . |
| 16 | These two had known each other for well over thirty years , meeting first at school and then finding their paths crossing again and again as they shifted with their respective jobs , till finally they had both come back permanently to the town they started from . |
| 17 | " I 'm more used to addressing thousands at Wembley Stadium or Earl 's Court , " he said afterwards . |
| 18 | I 'm not always very good at saying what I mean , except at work , that is ; I 've been to Europe and the States but never to Nineveh and Distant Ophir ; I do n't have much time — literally — for the arts , though I 'm not against them in any way , you understand ( sometimes there 's a nice concert on the car radio ; like most people I read a book or two on holiday ) ; and I do n't give much of a thought to my clothes beyond looking smart at work and feeling comfortable when I get home . |
| 19 | It was n't until after lunch and Juliet 's departure that Charles remembered about Jacqui , still Lying low at Hereford Road . |
| 20 | He was accompanied by his nephew , John Browning , who had been involved in Covenanting activities and was lying low at Priesthill . |
| 21 | Andrew Tombs , 27 , of Stokesley , North Yorkshire , agreed to carry out 150 hours community service after pleading guilty at Teesside Crown Court to stealing equipment valued at £7,400 from Tarmac Construction , while working for them as a drainer on a building site in the town . |
| 22 | Zimbabwe 's Chimbima gets an unwelcome leg-up from a Namibian tackler as Andy Ferreira 's men gave their Southern African rivals a fright in a hard-fought quarter-final encounter , leading 10–0 at half-time before eventually succumbing 16–10 . |
| 23 | And if things are going wrong at home , or with the boyfriend or the baby and a girl is really distraught , the others will rally round and make her coffee , take the baby and feed it , because they understand , and they feel for her . |
| 24 | I know Everton are crap , ordinarily I 'd have predicted a Leeds win , but with the toffees loosing 3–0 at home on Saturday to QPR they will be doubly determined to get a result of some sort . |
| 25 | Two days later they drew 14–14 , after leading 14–7 at half-time in a strength sapping 90°F , with Languedoc/Roussillon Select U21 based on Béziers and Narbonne . |
| 26 | In the Keynesian model , the price level is assumed to be inflexible so that the fall in aggregate demand has the effect of reducing real income to OY 1 with the price level remaining unchanged at OP . |
| 27 | It 'd keep them calm , stop them lying awake at night . |
| 28 | Lying awake at night and listening to the moaning of the wind and the howling of the dogs , she tried to imagine what it could possibly be like to give herself to her cousin , a man nearly ten years older than herself . |
| 29 | you know , lying awake at nights you know cos er th three and four in the morning everything 's quiet , you know , |
| 30 | Protective equipment and clothing — including gloves , gowns , faceshields or goggles , and boots — are an important means of safeguarding those at risk from hepatitis B and other blood-borne pathogens but should not be relied upon as the sole means of protection . |