Example sentences of "[to-vb] [v-ing] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seemed to stand staring at the two of them , and they at her , for a long time , while outside , where night was making of the road a strange country , the vegetation grew black and monstrous . |
| 2 | Among the nine projects benefiting from this year 's grants were Southwark , which receives £29,555 to provide floodlighting at the Orchard Sports Centre and the London Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award Scheme , which gets £25,000 . |
| 3 | Now his executors hope that the money raised by the Constable will pay off the last of his debts and enable his wife , Austrian Countess Lucy Czernin and their two children , Edward , 11 , and Charlotte , 15 , to continue living at the house . |
| 4 | Indie rock is the traditional playground of scruffy teenagers approaching college age who prefer to celebrate gazing at the stars than admit to peeking at the opposite sex . |
| 5 | Trying to avoid gazing at the grisly sight , the Leutnant sidled over to the statuesque Karnstein , and handed the envelope to her . |
| 6 | I was inclined to laugh until I found myself shuffling along the edge of one levada , eyes fixed to avoid looking at the drop below . |
| 7 | We haggle over the prices and try to avoid looking at the piles of fruit and salad vegetables on every stall . |
| 8 | It would be impossible not to enjoy staying at the Venus — they 're some of our nicest apartments in Ibiza . |
| 9 | The soldier denied the barrister 's suggestion that his evidence was ‘ a nonsense and a total fabrication to justify firing at the car . ’ |
| 10 | Wednesday want Huddersfield midfielder Chris Marsden and we hear Trevor Francis is likely to quit playing at the end of the season . |
| 11 | The solution is to enjoy staring at the cat at moments when it is not staring back . |
| 12 | They drove through the night to start unloading at the Apollo the following lunchtime . |
| 13 | And clearly anyone from outside Northwest Manchester has got to start looking at the are and doing some research and finding out where the big firms are , who the important people are , etcetera , to make sure that I know the area that I 'm candidate in . |
| 14 | Er without being an actuary I say to myself that 's a pretty magical thing you 've done and then it causes you to start looking at the monetary background of all of that an and again I I 'm , I 'm speaking here largely on what actuarial advice we are beginning to receive . |
| 15 | The hypnotist 's instruction to keep looking at the drawing pin conflicts with his suggestion that the eyes are growing tired and will soon be closing of themselves . |
| 16 | It will not come from Government spending , because the Government will have to borrow massively to keep going at the present mean levels of public spending . |
| 17 | You will see we have brought forward the first meeting to 23rd September — to help you get in the mood and inspired to start teaching at the beginning of the new term . |
| 18 | Even the King had to start learning at the beginning , did n't he ? |
| 19 | ‘ We 're going to start shooting at the end of the month . ’ |
| 20 | The method of work has been to get going at the time dictated by the candidate 's first duty of the day and the time taken to get to him . |
| 21 | An important area to bear in mind when drawing up a briefing programme is the need to supply briefing at the end of the employee 's period overseas . |
| 22 | To stop pumping at the Wey springs would require more pumping at Lasham and Winchmill Hill , and there would be no permanent gain in the water table . |
| 23 | OVER the years I have learned to stop wincing at the description of someone having a drink problem . |
| 24 | They say they may have to stop working at the hospital and it ca n't survive without them . |
| 25 | Bill senior , who will celebrate his 90th birthday on 25 August , has the unique place in the company 's history of being the last employee to continue working at the old Etruria factory . |
| 26 | The amendment which has gone up there and which I think is being circulated is our amendment which is designed to achieve spending at the government target figure . |
| 27 | Everyone is trying to cut spending at the moment , but this decision is ill-advised . |
| 28 | He gave important , but merely verbal assurances that the proceeds from it for the arts , heritage , sport and charities would not substitute other government funds for these areas and that he expected the cash to begin flowing at the end of 1994 . |