Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 31 | So much happening here at the moment as the ball was followed up by David he looked at the referee as er challenge him for the er shove inside the penalty area but the referee was unimpressed by that , Blackburn have already got one penalty here tonight from which they 've scored , Shrewsbury have scored from a penalty too and it 's the third division side still in the lead here by three goals to two . |
| 32 | The remaining three peaks of the west ridge ( Loughshannagh , Carn and Muck ) are not especially exciting , but below the ridge to the east is a broad shelf containing the beautiful little lake of Lough Shannagh and ending abruptly at the top of the Ben Crom cliffs . |
| 33 | Steps built out in front of retaining walls may look better if they 're ‘ returned ’ : the sides are built out on each step , to form rectangular , curved or rounded ends , filling in all or part of the space up to the retaining wall , so that each step continues round instead of ending abruptly at the side . |
| 34 | A common sight throughout the rural areas of South India , occurring sometimes at the entrance to a village or town , near Siva temples and shrines , in the corner of a temple courtyard , near a water tank or stream ( water being the mother of life ) or most often under Peepul or Neem trees , is a cluster of erect stone slabs planted in the ground rising to about 3 feet in height on the face of which appear effigies of the Cobra or Nag , In relation to the afore-mentioned trees , generally ‘ married ’ to each other , they are symbolic of ‘ life ’ , with the Serpent representing their spirit or life energy . |
| 35 | ‘ Play your pipe , wife , ’ said the Mason , laughing inordinately at the novelty of having a wife . |
| 36 | as if on cue , they heard footsteps on the back stairs at that moment , and Tom himself entered the kitchen after crossing the back porch and knocking briefly at the door . |
| 37 | The rarity of p53 gene mutation in adenomas and its prevalence in carcinomas , suggests that p53 mutation is one of the late events in the adenoma-carcinoma sequence , occurring either at the adenoma carcinoma interface or during progression of established cancers . |
| 38 | The governing body therefore announced further changes in legislation in 1986 which have meant the phasing out of turbocharging completely at the end of the 1988 season . |
| 39 | Together they formed the Jewish Comedy Club appearing Upstairs At The Picket in Hardman Street as part of the Liverpool Festival of Comedy . |
| 40 | Esther was saying , returning to the guest list , recalling scores not settled a quarter of a century ago : ‘ Yes , the very man , he 's a something or other in the DES , he 's a very important chap now , you ought to have a go at him , ’ Liz replied , and as she spoke the doorbell rang , and there was the first guest , on the dot of two minutes past nine o'clock , tall , thin , grey , anxious , clutching a bunch of yellow roses , ex-priest turned analyst Joseph O'Toole , standing stranded on the black and white marble tiles , not knowing where to turn , how to divest himself of his coat , to whom to deliver his roses , a lost man , gazing mildly at the unexpected butler , waiting for the arrival of familiar Liz Headleand , who advanced upon him , took the roses , embraced him , restored him , and led him in to Charles , Alix and Esther : a quarter of an hour earlier she had predicted the time of his arrival accurately , to the minute , and now smiled triumphantly as she effected the introductions , a smile of complicity in which Joseph O'Toole , who was acutely aware of his own punctuality problem , was able with a pleasant relief to share . |
| 41 | Soon he was joined by other Europeans and henceforth it became a common sight to see one or other of the ladies or gentlemen of the " confident " party slapping away at the trough where once the dhobi had slapped ( for on the day after the Collector 's appearance the dhobi had vanished from the enclave , either because he considered it too dangerous to remain any longer now that the commander of the garrison had assumed the caste of dhobi or , more likely , because he resented the competition ) . |
| 42 | Piece by small technical piece , these strategies are eating away at the consensus that originally made OS/2 seem a certainty as the computing world 's next-generation technical standard . |
| 43 | The old certainties that ruled computer industry analysis over the past 30 years are tumbling like autumn leaves , and commercial realities are now eating away at the traditional determination of Japanese companies to forget the bottom line and stick with major product sectors for the long term : Sony Corp says it is considering pulling out of Japan 's competitive word processor market to save the cost of developing and manufacturing new models , Reuter reports from Tokyo ; Sony began making word processors in 1985 and production reached a peak of 10,000 a month ; NEC Corp , Toshiba Corp , Fujitsu Ltd and Sharp Corp now dominate the market and Sony currently makes just 500 of the things a month , a drop in the 1992 market ocean of 2.6m machines . |
| 44 | These carvings have been off display for many years as it was discovered that atmospheric pollution , even within the museum , was eating away at the stone . |
| 45 | The pattern for these accusations had been set by the young Liberal Charles Masterman in The Heart of the Empire ( 1902 ) where he had thundered out his warning of inevitable decline as the result of the ‘ perpetual lowering in the vitality of the Imperial Race in the great cities of the Kingdom through over-crowding in room and in area ’ : What was never entirely clear was whether it was merely a physical deterioration that was eating away at the ‘ Imperial Race ’ , or if a moral decay was not also in evidence . |
| 46 | All of it eating away at the spiritual fabric of existence for thousands upon thousands of years . |
| 47 | I was on my own now , faced with that half-obliterated turn at the V-point of the side gorge where water pouring over the track was eating away at the surface . |
| 48 | Now empty , decay and neglect are slowly eating away at the building 's fabric . |
| 49 | ‘ I must have my own , ’ Alexandra said to Penman , gazing absently at the silver tray he brought her , ‘ must n't I ? |
| 50 | He imagined a full-page , black and white photo of two barechested men ( their chests shaved ) , photographed in daylight , walking down the street , gazing squarely at the camera , holding hands , one of them holding an alsatian straining at a leather leash . |
| 51 | The weather was so vile most of the time , and John so busy that we had quite a contented and simple domestic time , John whizzing away at the computer and me in the ( cane ) rocking chair with my feet up on another reading away . |
| 52 | In an air attack on the way back he had been killed while firing away at the fighters who were strafing his truck . |
| 53 | And by the evening editions every hack in town will be sawing away at the other end . ’ |
| 54 | He had been riding in front of Chuck and his father , watching with admiration the erect , narrow-backed figure of Jacques Devraux jogging easily at the head of the column ; the fierce-eyed Frenchman had quickly made a deep impression on Joseph 's fifteen-year-old mind and he was trying to hold his own shoulders high and square in the same fashion . |
| 55 | Wholesome cooking used to mean a whole lot of work … not least of it , reaching up to the grill , and scrubbing away at the oven and hotplate . |
| 56 | No he 'll be at school , just me and you , scrubbing away at the floor you 'd rather do it with Christopher would n't you ? |
| 57 | It is no good not following those rules and then worrying when your teenager is not back at the expected time , looking nervously at the clock and twitching the curtains every time a car pulls up in your road . |
| 58 | Hornby on the occasion rebuked Brixton for not looking properly at the CNAA 's regulations — and the College was subsequently to have its proposals approved . |
| 59 | It is best in such cases to set out the contra agreement in writing right at the outset . |
| 60 | The typhoon shelters at Aberdeen and Mong Kok start to fill with craft , their prudent masters and owners looking uneasily at the eastern sky as it blackens and darkens , and as the wind begins to sing in the telephone wires , the unsecured edges of roofs begin to flap and creak , and the streets are busy with flying litter , and dust . |