Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most Southern advertisers and agencies , however , 1993 will be a year of hanging on at any cost . |
| 2 | By the time he came off to a huge ovation , Essex were dawdling along at 99-3 off 36 overs . |
| 3 | And apply it to say driving along at steady speeds , then you can work a lot of it out for yourself . |
| 4 | It came a cropper in 1990 and had to be cut up and sold off , with the remains ending up at Amstral Workstation Solutions Ltd , a value added reseller operation . |
| 5 | MGM 's studio at Borehamwood , on the northwest edge of London and just along the road from Elstree , was made by Kubrick to accommodate a space station interior over 300 feet ( 90m ) long , sloping up at one end nearly 40 feet ( 12m ) . |
| 6 | The stereo cassette is an essential tool , with Queen blasting out at full volume while she produces her fine work . |
| 7 | Tess seemed like a queen to Clare , perhaps because he knew that she was the most beautiful woman walking about at this time of day . |
| 8 | The talent he has encouraged and given much time and effort to , includes the 1986 Club Champion , 20-year-old Simon Barrington who was twice Junior Champion ; Michael Orris , the Joint Course record holder and County Alliance player ; Guy Phillips , still 17 , the Junior Champion and Captain ( handicap 5 ) and who whilst competing in the Daily Express Ford qualifying round at Royal Mid-Surrey in 1986 played to level par and went on to play in the finals in Spain ) ; Henry Bareham , also handicap 5 , who played for English Schools and Graham Booth , the Thames Valley League Junior Champion . |
| 9 | JOANNE HOCKLEY from Felixstowe Ferry booked her place in the match-play stages of the British Women 's Amateur Championship when she handed in a 72 during the second qualifying round at Royal Lytham and St Annes . |
| 10 | My map-reading skill comes from many years using the OS ‘ 1 inch = 1 mile ’ maps in club , national and international motor rallies , where you are bouncing along at high speed , often at night , in poor conditions . |
| 11 | This seems an effort to fit a cult-statue into a building with a sacrificial pit ; and though it was in profile that one saw these statues as one came in or went out , if one looked up as one passed under the beam which hid them , one saw them again , carved in very low relief on its underside , standing frontal and looking down at one : altogether an astonishing conception . |
| 12 | It looks great there , standing in the middle of the square , looking down at all the people and cars and that . |
| 13 | Instead , he has relied on great fitness and stamina to enable him to keep sprinting in at full pace , and speed of arm and perfect balance to capitalize on the momentum ; combined with an unrelenting desire to keep on taking more and more wickets , it has all proved irresistible . |
| 14 | The running tunnels are connected to the service tunnel by cross passages every 375m , and to each other by piston ducts every 250m to reduce the aerodynamic resistance of trains passing through at high speed . |
| 15 | So what time are you er picking up at one . |
| 16 | He raised his voice , looking up at one of the security cameras . |
| 17 | They way he just took my hair in one hand , while we were standing looking up at that God-awful window in the great hall , and turned my head to him , and pulled me close ; tongue down my throat before I knew what was happening , and there was something adolescent and desperate beneath all that working-class directness , but Jesus , I felt wanted … |
| 18 | She knew it came from far back , because she felt so tiny on the rug , looking up at huge shapes . |
| 19 | As I sat looking up at this magnificent bird , especially on a fine day , I used to feel a terrific urge to see a bird of prey flying to a lure , which I 'd read about in my falconry books . |
| 20 | ‘ I stood beside the drill and kept looking up at this line we had just made ; and it was like a gun-barrel . |
| 21 | I can see part of Horse Guards Parade almost see myself standing there the other afternoon , looking up at these windows , still ignorant of what I was looking at . |
| 22 | Things seemed to be looking up at last , ’ she says . |
| 23 | ‘ This is profanation , ’ he said harshly , looking up at last . |
| 24 | For soon after descending from their international express at Zurich 's main station , new arrivals may be standing on the bridge where Zurich 's river , the Limmat , joins its lake , the Zurichsee , looking up at green fields and trees , at ancient towers , or perhaps down-lake to a wide expanse of blue water criss-crossed by the wakes of pleasure steamers , decorated by the white sails of holidaying yachtsmen . |
| 25 | Looking back at 4 , we might surmise that teachers and pupils have a shared schema for the progress and structure of a school lesson and their roles and responses to possible events . |
| 26 | Looking back at that period , the crucial difference in Conservative politicians was between those who thought that the last twenty or thirty years had not been too bad , and who were sceptical that anything better could be achieved , and those who hoped that something better could be won and saw the last quarter of a century as a slow but steady decline . |
| 27 | But she thought , looking back at that pewter sky and narrow saffron afterglow as the Aston Martin purred into life and shot away at speed : Yes , individuals do ! |
| 28 | Looking back at regular intervals to see if the stranger was following , eventually they reached the access to the street but the guide was astonished to find the man had vanished into thin air . |
| 29 | This was predictable , though , looking back at historical evidence relating to a Friday Christmas . |
| 30 | Looking back at those debates on how we could fill in the time on our hands , the novelist Herbert Gold reflected that the Fifties were a time of ‘ happy people with happy problems ’ . |