Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His hands lingered for a moment , his fingers hinting at a strength that made her throat tighten . |
| 2 | Perhaps the Private Eye story hinting at a takeover of Barts by a private concern is not as farfetched as Tony Delamothe suggests . |
| 3 | He estimates that an executive sous-chef working in a top London restaurant or hotel would be earning between £25,000 and £27,000 , whereas a head chef in contract catering at a director 's dining room , for example , would be doing very well to earn £20,000 . |
| 4 | In a study undertaken over a two-week period , Tom Tadecki , research director of the International Coalition Against Violent Entertainment , found that more than 33 per cent of its programmes involved some form of aggression , with violent acts occurring at a rate of 10 per hour . |
| 5 | The figures for BBC 1 and BBC 2 were 10 per cent , with violent acts occurring at a rate of 2.5 per hour on BBC 1 , and two on BBC 2 . |
| 6 | And her fellow taxpayers did n't find their sovereign queueing at a cubby-hole for her £17.40 first-class ticket . |
| 7 | An agent looking at a student actor makes a reasonable commercial judgement ; he considers whether a decision to take on an actor will be financially justified . |
| 8 | One visiting history adviser looking at a display of old washing equipment got the infants to explain by picking up and examining an old flat iron , looking for the flex and asking " But how did they plug this in ? " |
| 9 | I can with a few deft strokes build myself a crenellated castle with coloured windows , or a maze of evergreen , or a field of rippling corn , or a fat blackbird with bright eyes picking at a cluster of red berries . |
| 10 | On the Saturday evening they attended a screenplay reading at a bookshop on Camdem High Street . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's wonderful , ’ said the man , but then he saw four Scots sitting at a table without a drink . |
| 12 | This was confirmed when I heard a Syrian soldier talking at a roadblock we encountered . |
| 13 | This service provides delivery by a Post Office messenger for letters and packets arriving at a delivery office on the next working day after posting but too late for normal delivery on that day . |
| 14 | Dora jerked her head like a horse shying at a pheasant . |
| 15 | We have just er er spent two hours looking at a report whether that will be the report we 'll use at that particular time needs to be agreed yet . |
| 16 | Instead of turning back or taking the upper channel , a long cul-de-sac ending at a floodgate , Dennis beached the punt on the rollers forming a portage over the weir . |
| 17 | The reporting restrictions which forbid the identification of a child appearing at a youth court would also apply in Crown court , unless they were lifted . |
| 18 | Subjects were asked to make rhyme judgments about consonants appearing at a rate of one per second . |
| 19 | Then , or at home looking at a map of Britain , the West calls , out of Wiltshire and out of Cornwall and Devon beyond , out of Monmouth and Glamorgan and Gower and Caermarthen , with a voice of dead Townsends , Eastaways , Thomases , Phillipses , Treharnes , Marendaz , sea men and mountain men . |
| 20 | To overcome the problem of the softner regenerating at a time of peak demand , it is common practice to install duplex units in service/standby mode . |
| 21 | The programme employs stream sediment sampling at a density of one sample per km² ; with analysis for up to 30 elements . |
| 22 | The best vines are those closest to the village growing at a height of between 140 and 200 metres . |
| 23 | Problems were compounded by severe food shortages , with the introduction of bread rationing at a level of 250g per person per day . |
| 24 | Not even the British could stomach the sight of the King and Queen arriving at a Coronation in separate carriages . |
| 25 | ‘ He once did a trial Castlemaine ad — a group of Australians standing at a bar , all one-legged after crossing an alligator-infested river to get there . |
| 26 | It is the first duty of any coach arriving at a competition to get hold of a current draw sheet , identify the areas on which his entries will be competing and confirm the timetable . |
| 27 | It was like a goalie guessing at a penalty . |
| 28 | Wycliffe found Sergeant Curtis sitting at a table in the hall typing yet another report . |
| 29 | Gloucester City Council reversed its most radical decisions on council housing at a marathon session dominated by the casting vote of a solitary independent councillor . |
| 30 | He smiled at her like a cat smiling at a mouse . |