Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was more than a shock I put my head in my in my hand and I remember kneeling right at this spot and just crying my heart out . |
| 2 | One can only deduce that the Eurasian and African plates began driving together at this time , with the latter dragged down beneath the rising Alpine mountains . |
| 3 | The largest and most colourful of them showed a woman with a shotgun , blasting away at Red Indians . |
| 4 | And er you you you could hear them patting this butter outside a shop you know , it was a lovely sound on marble slabs and they were patting away at this butter . |
| 5 | I work at a distribution centre , where there is continuous shiftwork , which means that women and men are walking home at all hours of day and night often taking short-cuts across playing fields and waste land , totally unaware of the potential dangers . |
| 6 | There he would walk all day , refreshed only by a drink or two of water , returning home at 6 o'clock to a good Welsh tea . |
| 7 | We got lost , returning home at ten , trembling with terror at our own inventions . |
| 8 | Not only will you burn off up to 300 calories walking briskly at 4 miles an hour for 45 minutes , but up to 180 of these calories will be fat calories . |
| 9 | ‘ Meg 's no good — she 's away — and you wo n't want to be driving far at this time of night … ’ |
| 10 | These bursts of repetitive non-sequential pressure peaks did not show any characteristics that would suggest a common cavity phenomenon ; they were not preceded by a sudden small increase in base line oesophageal pressure occurring simultaneously at different levels of the oesophagus ; and the shape of the individual waves , although occurring simultaneously at different levels of the oesophagus , was often different from one level to the other . |
| 11 | These bursts of repetitive non-sequential pressure peaks did not show any characteristics that would suggest a common cavity phenomenon ; they were not preceded by a sudden small increase in base line oesophageal pressure occurring simultaneously at different levels of the oesophagus ; and the shape of the individual waves , although occurring simultaneously at different levels of the oesophagus , was often different from one level to the other . |
| 12 | After her disastrous first year at the academy , it was something of a miracle that Mildred was returning there at all . |
| 13 | Marksmanship was relatively unaffected when the soldiers were allowed to shoot in their own time at a target , but when shooting was combined with a vigilance task ( with the target appearing briefly at unpredictable times ) , the number of hits was dramatically reduced . |
| 14 | When an extended family is living together at close quarters , even minor irritations can grow out of all proportion . |
| 15 | I 'm still getting over the shock of discovering you 're living together at all . ’ |
| 16 | Herbert Cranko and his bride , Phyllis , were already living together at 6 Montpelier Walk , Knightsbridge . |
| 17 | The third section offers a critical exploration of possible starting points for new strategies , not least by looking anew at some of the difficult and resilient questions about cultural identity and belongingness , about ethnicity and community , that were often glossed over or disavowed in the antiracist movement . |
| 18 | Zero-based budgeting is a method for looking afresh at all the inbuilt excesses that we have comes to take for granted . |
| 19 | Such forces , acting instantaneously at one place due to circumstances somewhere else , are called non-local . |
| 20 | But looking only at professional power drill sales , cordless drills are accounting for 50 per cent of the market . |
| 21 | First , there are inherent limitations in looking only at individual projects , which do not pick up some of the key problems discussed above , such as fungibility and co-ordination . |
| 22 | She also questions the usefulness of looking only at those who are six months or more in arrears . |
| 23 | There is a danger in the search for good practice of looking only at those schools with good academic records . |
| 24 | But , looking broadly at various avant-garde movements between the 1890s and the 1920s , we can propose certain hypotheses which can be tested by research . |
| 25 | In an hour they were all ready and stood in the parlour looking humorously at each other in their best shirts of white linen and clean breeches . |
| 26 | But last year American Airlines and United started nibbling away at this business when they replaced bankrupt Pan Am and TWA on many of the services between America and London . |
| 27 | I do n't know who it was first pointed out that , given enough time , a monkey bashing away at random on a typewriter could produce all the works of Shakespeare . |
| 28 | We shall be looking further at this vexed question of Christian initiation and the relation of the Holy Spirit to baptism in a later chapter . |
| 29 | Commoners were discouraged from looking directly at any part of his person other than his feet . |
| 30 | You can SCAN , which involves just looking quickly at each page , to pick out anything which you recognise as being relevant to you , and which you can then read in detail ( scanning involves looking for keywords ) . |