Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But , dear David , ’ she said pitifully , ‘ you ca n't want us interfering at such a moment . |
| 2 | IBM has invested so much in the development of , and so much more in the marketing of , OS/2 2.0 that it has to plough on with it even if in 18 months ' time it becomes clear that it is becoming at best a respectable also-ran in the desktop stakes . |
| 3 | Visitors to Chris Martin 's house in Cheltenham might be forgiven for shivering at all the slithering going on among the selection of snakes which share his semi . |
| 4 | It is obviously advantageous for an animal to receive more detailed information about where it is going to than about where it has come from , and it is therefore not surprising that as well as the mouth at the front end of the planaria there is a concentration of sense organs , such as light-sensitive eyepits , and to process the information arriving from these sense organs there is a group of ganglia concentrated in the head — forming at last the forerunners of real brains . |
| 5 | Looking at all the brightest and best on display in Birmingham , I was reminded of some comments made in the early '80s by the late Gordon Brown , then head of design for GM 's European passenger cars . |
| 6 | I was out on the gallery just before I went to bed , looking at all the tapestries and statuettes . |
| 7 | Held : By looking at all the circumstances , it was clear that Leonard was self-employed . |
| 8 | walk in like that and you 're looking at all the things in the shop not where |
| 9 | Now we performed uni-variant analysis looking at all the parameters shown on the left . |
| 10 | What we have to do is start looking at all the things that make that possible and try and do something else for all the things that do n't help you fill it . |
| 11 | We 'll be looking at all the stars of the show , like the mighty Tupolef Bear from Russia , a lasting symbol of the cold war . |
| 12 | Schofield said : ‘ I shall be looking at all the press cuttings when I get home and deciding what action to take . |
| 13 | Okay now looking at all the other stuff on there , and I look at that and I think well this is all very boring because it 's all about business , and business as we know is incredibly unimportant . |
| 14 | He is a great walker now — distance no object — and we had a fine time looking at all the things the canal had to offer , including frozen puddles and flying swans . |
| 15 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 16 | I think they 're looking at all the |
| 17 | I thought oh god shut up , you know , you 've got children , oh he 's really horrible and he stands there and he 's looking at all the women every one that comes and he smiles and then hello , hello |
| 18 | Erm , when we were looking at all the markers like erm , |
| 19 | Later in the programme we 'll be having a report from Molyneux looking at all the local games in detail . |
| 20 | then I was looking at all the garden stuff , and and I thought well , start by the , and I thought I 'm doing a Joey ! |
| 21 | Looking at all the paints I 'm |
| 22 | Looking at all the , at the stuff but the trouble is you 've got ta find somewhere to put it all have n't you ? |
| 23 | The latter can be thought of either as something like a pointer moving across a scale to a mark labelled " here " , or ultimately as a conscious observer looking at such a pointer and saying " By Jove , the electron 's here " on this occasion . |
| 24 | Now if we were looking at these the other way up right if somebody gave you the triangle |
| 25 | I 've also given you a living assurance rate book , because we 'll be looking at both the rate books in a minute . |
| 26 | ‘ Bearing in mind that it will be Ian McGeechan 's last game as Scotland coach , it 's a perfect setting for Gavin and his side to give him a fitting send-off , ’ said Best , who will be taking a video of the Murrayfield game back with him and will spend this week poring over it , looking at both the performances of Scotland and potential Lions . |
| 27 | Here , in an aquarium light , men and women crouch in rows of wooden tip-up seats , peering at half a dozen shuttered doorways . |
| 28 | According to the report , the world 's population was growing at 250,000 a day . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I was gaping at all the knick-knacks ! ’ she smiled up at him . |
| 30 | As reports from the Select Committee on Defence have made clear over the past few years , defence cuts are proceeding at such a pace that , if a future Labour Government continued in the same way , we would be left with Securicor and Group 4 to defend our shores and a steamship company to provide us with a substitute for the Royal Navy . |