Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument in favour of plumping looks at first sight convincing enough : in the later stages of the count your own party will stand a chance of benefiting from the transferred lower preferences expressed by supporters of other parties , whilst those parties will not benefit from the transferred lower preferences of your own supporters since they wo n't have expressed any . |
| 2 | For daring to come at all , she was cut from the Kirov team . |
| 3 | It will have been noted that , not content with imposing upon themselves the task of ruling through the tendering of advice , which might have been thought difficult enough , the British took upon themselves in Northern Nigeria the even more difficult task of ruling without actually appearing to rule at all — an undertaking whose very absurdity only emphasizes its interest . |
| 4 | Whilst resolving to stay at independent as possible , I contacted ACET who I knew provided practical care at home . |
| 5 | They had sat there hating one another , quarrelling in bitter voices , not wanting to look at one another . |
| 6 | I hang around for a bit , pretending to look at some writing on the board . |
| 7 | Billy Crystal has a perfect wife and beautiful daughter but feels rattrapped trying to support them , Daniel Stern is having an affair with a teenage supermarket assistant and has been reduced to pretending to sleep at social gatherings in order to avoid his nagging wife , and womanising Bruno Kirby has finally tied the knot with a glamorous bimbo half his age ( ‘ soon he 'll be dating sperm ’ , observes Crystal ) and agonises over whether he can stay faithful to her . |
| 8 | Responses range from bribing ( as your competitors do ) to refusing to bribe at all , but making adjustments ( for instance to price ) that will compensate for the bribe being offered and allow competition for a contract to be real . |
| 9 | Corporate bodies are in continuing tension with legality , seeking to arrive at some accommodation with attempts to regulate their own affairs and to exploit its possibilities for defending or advancing their own interests against rivals . |
| 10 | Willy Russell 's story of a hair-dresser seeking to learn at any price via her reluctant and sozzled tutor continues to stand the test of time . |
| 11 | A bout of sickness and diarrhoea exacerbated the problem intensely to the point of Darren refusing to eat at all and becoming extremely weak and debilitated . |
| 12 | Graham and Laidlaw remained motionless , not daring to look at each other . |
| 13 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 14 | Bob slipped a peppermint into his mouth , not daring to look at either of them until Dyson had found words to speak . |
| 15 | Until I re and , well until my husband retired at sixty and I thought well if he 's going to retire at sixty , I might as well retire , you see . |
| 16 | Only in keeping with the bumper sticker , the driver is n't heading to work at all . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , if it 's going to work at all , a well planned kitchen has , first and foremost , to suit the cook . |
| 18 | ‘ So you see , ’ he wound up after an interminable pause in which the flames seemed to swirl between them , ‘ it 's not going to work at all . |
| 19 | Next we are going to look at nutritional deficiencies . |
| 20 | There are three full-time staff doing nothing else , they have also got closed monitoring , closed circuit television , and things of that nature , and we 're going to look at all that too , to see whether we can even then , improve matters . |
| 21 | If you knew that a friend was going to look at that magazine shortly after you , and that the friend would see which answer you had marked , would you seriously tick a ) or b ) ? |
| 22 | Can I suggest that those members of the General Purposes Committee who are going to look at that area anyway , also have a look at the me the problems of , of this bank side , which is actually collapsing , er due to the weight of , of people . |
| 23 | Yeah , well he 's he 's going to look at that for us . |
| 24 | Er you 're going to look at one of our our gems which is leisure services . |
| 25 | In this last programme in our short series on the boundaries of science , we 're going to look at one aspect of that most baffling and intriguing subject , the origin of life . |
| 26 | Tonight , and during the next two Tuesday programmes , we are going to look at cultural links and influences . |
| 27 | This month we 're going to look at another useful way of practising Pentatonic scales using ‘ interval skips ’ . |
| 28 | Next week we 're going to look at another facet of education — should girls be treated in school any differently from boys ? |
| 29 | Er today we 're going to look at this Policy E two , the op open countryside , and there are presented to you for the discussion three matters . |
| 30 | A new relationship has begun , with the most momentous consequences for life , and we are going to look at some of those consequences soon . |