Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His elbows were on the table edge , his heavily ringed fingers idly scratching at a thick black beard as though it aided his concentration . |
| 2 | At night , while John 's impatient body sleeps , I listen to the waves loosely slapping at the side of the stilled ship . |
| 3 | The pupils decided that they were the same in that context and were satisfied that there were only three different shapes if they did not allow fences in the middle or squares just touching at the corners . |
| 4 | But for larger numbers of mutational steps , even in the case of the biomorphs with their nine little genes , the mathematical space of all possible trajectories is so vast that the chance of two trajectories ever arriving at the same point becomes vanishingly small . |
| 5 | Several men , navy with gold braid in evidence , turned towards him as Delaney walked over , eyes automatically glancing at the geography and configurations on the plastic : Atlantic , beyond the equator . |
| 6 | With the club now languishing at the bottom of the table they were in desperate need of a football visionary , a new footballing messiah . |
| 7 | The note , from a private Indian lawyer reportedly acting at the behest of one of the middlemen who received pay-offs , was understood to have been delivered by Solanki on Feb. 1 while attending the World Economic Forum in Davos . |
| 8 | ‘ If corn etc. continuing at the high price 't is now , 't is to be left in the breast of the churchwardens and overseers to advance what they think proper — if corn etc. falls during the year no deductions to take place … ’ |
| 9 | A splashy Belle-epoque tableau literally bursting at the edges with tumbling patrons leaping from the stage , frantic dancers , several pairs of identical twins and top-hatted gentlemen consorting with masked beauties , it was most entertaining decoration , and seemed reasonably estimated at $100–150,000 , though it sold to an American collector ( widely believed to be Iris and Gerald Cantor ) for a stunning $650,000 ( £373,500 ) . |
| 10 | For the rest , Friday turned out to be a bad day at Blackrock with Graham losing twice and McHugh and the Clarendon triple skipped by Mark Shannon all falling at the first hurdle . |
| 11 | In the event , Wesley Smith 's portrait WO N'T be hanging next to Sean Connery 's in an exhibition of Peter 's work now showing at the Link Centre . |
| 12 | Lot number seventeen Lot seventeen , the glass snuff-bottle snuff-bottle there showing at a hundred pounds for this , at one hundred pounds at a hundred pounds , any more at one hundred only , at one hundred all done ? |
| 13 | They designed job descriptions , terms of employment and time sheets for support workers ; ( they were to be paid at a rate equivalent to home helps and care attendants , with increased payments for unsocial hours ; there was also to be a lower rate of payment for workers merely sleeping at a sufferer 's house , compared with providing active care ) . |
| 14 | Muslims may step up action on Rushdie Joanna Coles finds Islamic community still raging at The Satanic Verses . |
| 15 | This will considerably help cash Mow problems for new haulage firms and hauliers still operating at a modest turnover . |
| 16 | As she and Adam left , Buzz turned back to see Elinor silently looking at the ceiling . |
| 17 | They went into the boutique , Alyssia barely glancing at the racks of exquisitely made clothes , nodding distractedly in agreement when Nicole picked out an exotic pink strapless dress and asked whether she thought it would suit her . |
| 18 | During the summer we had serious problems , we had a report on children homes which erm which y'know which pointed out a few things y'know that had n't been doing well , mainly , mainly in defence of erm because they did put in a lot of effort into fostering y'know and the children homes y'know need , as Councillor would y'know will , they did a very good job actually representing at the time . |
| 19 | Right , so me and Jim had a chat the other day just looking at the the roadside entries and the counts and I was sort of saying if we work on the basis that we want between ten and twelve people , twelve people maximum |
| 20 | Of six senior editors still working at the station , two are Serbs , two are Slav Muslims , and two are Croats . |
| 21 | Going over the top e.g. screaming at the kids over something minor |
| 22 | This was just what Artemis did n't want , some thruster charging up behind Hullabaloo whom she had just got settled , and trying to make a race of it , particularly with the big hedge fast approaching at the bottom of the dip . |
| 23 | Due to an unending stream of publicity in all manner of publications , there were constant applications by post and from dancers simply arriving at the office . |
| 24 | I make no claim to supernatural powers , nor do I believe in guardian angels et cetera , but suddenly a vision of what is about to occur flashes vivid and uninvited , inside my forehead : the screams , the blood-covered sheets , Pa scurrying round the lawn snatching up the pink and white scraps , calling to his God then staring at the bloody morsels of his daughter as though they 're a jigsaw with missing bits . |
| 25 | A special visitor to the seminar will be Mr. R.A. Gailey , Director of the Ulster Transport Museum who will read a paper on ‘ The Rise and Fall of the Railways ’ and will include a slide show of the well known interpretive exhibition of Irish Railway Development currently running at the Museum which includes Dargan 's own saloon coach which he used as a mobile drawing office . |
| 26 | Reeves comments that there are very few collectors of Egyptian art actively buying at the moment ‘ People do n't appreciate that there is a wide variety of pieces available and that there is considerable scope for new collectors ’ . |
| 27 | Here 's the full story now beginning at the Baseball Ground . |
| 28 | To include the building an extension thereby arriving at a total of more than fifty thousand pounds . |
| 29 | ‘ Innumerable bureaucrats still reeling at the news . ’ |
| 30 | In other towns he 'd left way before the question mark , his Coke still fizzing at the top of the glass . |