Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Howard sits tensely at his drawing-board , his mouth tight shut , his eyes gazing unseeing at the paper , rigid with anxiety to produce a good big handle . |
| 2 | When he got through and began to speak he cheered up as he laughed and talked away , before becoming depressed at the end of the call . |
| 3 | In a lexicon of only 4,000 words , the most frequently occurring tri-gram at the start of a word only occurs 52 times ( it is the tri-gram pro ) . |
| 4 | And so it was actually becoming dangerous at the same time . |
| 5 | He was mounted on a chestnut thoroughbred who was already becoming over-excited at the thought of the day ahead . |
| 6 | Her mother was becoming suspicious at the amount of time she spent in her room , but Lizzie had told her everyone liked to be on their own at times . |
| 7 | In 18 patients the operation had been a two stage procedure with a covering ileostomy being closed some three months after primary surgery while in five patients a one stage restorative proctocolectomy with ileal reservoir was performed with the ileal reservoir becoming functional at the time of proctocolectomy . |
| 8 | Launching APT at the end of November with the Euromark futures contract will reinforce the point . |
| 9 | Things are becoming intolerable at the club these days and the boot sale is only part of it . |
| 10 | Keeping cool at the Excelsior |
| 11 | With the Amazon Swords , there are lot of very good , very large plants becoming available at the moment . |
| 12 | The Swansea and Neath Society was founded in December 1822 but made no appeal through a public meeting until January 1826 ; the Manchester Society , although becoming active at the beginning of 1824 , issued no report to the public until March 1827 and had only had its first public meeting on 22 March 1826 . |
| 13 | They 're keeping quiet at the moment saying simply that they 've invested a lot in new technology and models , and their cars are doing well against others in the country . |
| 14 | The surface was grooved with the tumult of adversarial currents , the turbid water lapping high at the trunks of willows and alders on the banks . |
| 15 | She also was looking brave at the prospect of three weeks in the summer without their regular Thursday table at the ‘ Dolce Vita ’ near his office in the City . |
| 16 | He watched her making her way through the crowds on the pavement outside Lewis 's already looking bored at the prospect of spending her grandfather 's money . |
| 17 | It 's looking promising at the moment , we 've had a lot of support from the people of Didcot , er a number of companies have made donations , T N T express have given us a van to er transport the bikes to the start/finish , and Denton Cycles spares for the bikes if we break down , punctures being the worst |
| 18 | ‘ What 'll you have , then ? ’ asked Bill heartily , and then , with his odd alternations of mood on him : ‘ What 'll it be ? ’ quite mournfully , and looking bewildered at the array of bottles . |
| 19 | ANATOLY KARPOV looking pensive at the Pilkington Glass World chess championship semi-finals , which opened with considerable elegance on the grey and green carpeted stage of Sadler 's Wells theatre yesterday , writes William Hartston . |
| 20 | Please write to me , c/o Machine Knitting Monthly at the address on page 3 |
| 21 | And despite Kenny Dalglish 's spending spree , Moran , 36 , is still going strong at the sharp end of the Premier League . |
| 22 | Now we know the real meaning of going weak at the knees . |
| 23 | She 'd always thought that the phrase ‘ going weak at the knees ’ was an over-used cliché with no reference to reality , yet that was exactly how she felt . |
| 24 | Instead , here she was , going weak at the knees like an adolescent schoolgirl . |
| 25 | was turning brown at the edges . |
| 26 | ‘ Everything seems to be going wrong at the moment . ’ |
| 27 | With just one goal in five games you do n't have to be an expert to see where Oxford are going wrong at the moment . |
| 28 | He was going bald at the front , she noticed . |
| 29 | The proportion of the land supply remaining undeveloped at the end of the five year period will then be available in the following five year period . |
| 30 | Sweat pours from beneath my hat , and my shorts are going raggy at the hem . |