Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 's had a blood leakage into the vitreous humour , ’ Belinda explained unnecessarily , her heart thudding at the sight of him . |
| 2 | Also during this year Captain H.M. Williams was selected to command the 1 st Bucks team of sixty men , to compete for a prize offered by Lord Wantage for field firing at the Home Counties Brigade Camp at Churn , and of this team ( which won the competition ) thirty-two were Wolverton men . |
| 3 | In the church where I was converted , the service began with a muffled announcement from the back , followed by a lengthy hymn during which thirty men and women in long blue dresses , white nightshirts and yellowing ruffs walked up and down the various corridors in the building singing at the top of their voices . |
| 4 | He held her close , one hand at her waist , the other supporting her back , his fingers stroking at the base of her neck , sending delightful shivers , signals of desire , up and down her spine . |
| 5 | Later that day , after many interviews with ladies who looked as if they 'd come straight from an enthralling hour knitting at the foot of the guillotine , we found our garret . |
| 6 | The embroidery , a pattern of golden lily-flowers dotted here and there , each one at a fair distance from the other , would be confined to the shoulder band and to a broad sash fastening at the back in as large a bow as Miss Dallam would tolerate , its ends falling to the hem of her skirt . |
| 7 | Taken aback , he mentioned the football match to be fought on New Year 's Day between the Repertory company and the pantomime cast of Treasure Island appearing at the Empire . |
| 8 | That just depicts the same structure in terms of constituents and sub-constituents , so the whole thing is a sentence which in the bracketing notation just has the sentence with its bracket and the other bracket 's way down the other end , and this is mirrored by the label sentence occurring at the top of the tree , it means it covers everything below it roughly . |
| 9 | ( 3 ) All other estates , interests , and charges in or over land take effect as equitable interests ; ( 4 ) The estates , interests , and charges which under this section are authorised to subsist or be conveyed or created at law are ( when subsisting or conveyed or created at law ) in this Act referred to as " legal estates , " and have the same incidents as legal estates subsisting at the commencement of this Act ; and the owner of a legal estate is referred to as " an estate owner " and his legal estate is referred to as his estate . |
| 10 | an Aux(iliary) Input ( also a stereo 3.5 mm socket ) connects a cassette player to the GX-7 , the guitar output is mixed in and can be heard via a pair of Walkman headphones connected to the Out , the guitar appearing at the centre of the stereo image . |
| 11 | The ions appearing at the foot of the most recently reconnected field lines would be more energetic than the corresponding ions on field lines that were opened by a previous pulse of reconnection . |
| 12 | She was about to do the same with the contents of another file when something made her pause , hair prickling at the back of her head . |
| 13 | Theda stepped smartly back , away from her , distress catching at the breath in her throat . |
| 14 | The post office has a very interesting sign in the shape of a black and white pig hanging at the entrance . |
| 15 | There were the usual long-hairs and burned-out heads hanging at the back in velvet trousers or dirty jeans , patchwork boots and sheepskin coats , discussing bus fares to Fez , Barclay James Harvest and bread . |
| 16 | If you are an Imperial player and facing a foe that uses such despicable tactics then console yourself with the thought that at least the units firing at the Helblaster are not firing at other targets . |
| 17 | It begins with Thom gazing at the object of his fixation , flattering her with couplets like , ‘ You 're just like an angel/Your skin makes me cry . ’ |
| 18 | Allan Ramsay 's engaging portrait of Sir Edward and Lady Turner ( lot 21 , unpublished est. £250,000–350,000 ) , fresh from exhibition at the National Portrait Galleries of Edinburgh and London and sent to auction by the sitters ' descendants , fetched the morning 's top price , as expected , when it sold for £500,000 , an auction record for his work , to an agent bidding at the back of the room on behalf of a private collector against keen competition from David Posnett of Leger , who was the purchaser of a conversation piece by Nathaniel Hone ( lot 26 , est. £40,000–60,000 ) for £36,000 . |
| 19 | Silas and Matt then set up the barbecue , and Lucy was able to open the two food hampers , her eyes widening at the variety they contained . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's obscene , ’ Ace growled , the hairs on the back of her neck prickling at the thought that a mother could do that . |
| 21 | These findings also have important implications for the analysis of prolonged motility recordings in patients with non-cardiac chest pain : repetitive simultaneous pressure waves occurring at the time of an attack of chest pain , do not necessarily indicate that the pain was accompanied by disorders of oesophageal motility , or that such disorders were the cause of the chest pain . |
| 22 | • Very apparent blood vessels appearing at the skin surface |
| 23 | They brought their turbans , their pride and their brown eyes twinkling at the prospect of business . |
| 24 | Within a few hours I noticed a large number of fry appearing at the water surface . |
| 25 | There 's a stranger knocking at the window again Mrs . |
| 26 | Finally , the additional time taken to read words occurring at the end of clauses and sentences might reflect the time taken to carry out syntactic processing of that particular clause or sentence . |
| 27 | She replaced the receiver and joined Stephen , who was sitting on the terrace looking at the sea . |
| 28 | He kept thinking of her pirouetting , her small face impish , then her eyes filling at the memory of her lost doll . |
| 29 | There was a tight thicket of new , thorny growth in the clearing , a bird darting between the branches picking at the red and blue berries that hung from the twigs . |
| 30 | There was the afternoon when he drove out to the Crumbles and they slept for three hours , the wind pushing at the side of the car like a crowd . |