Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [v-ing] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found that gazing at the CO 's moustache helped . |
| 2 | How lovely , thought Winnie , letting her knitting fall and looking at the leaping flames , if she agreed ! |
| 3 | Bobbing and bobbing at the well-wall |
| 4 | They could hear Oliver banging and kicking at the cellar door . |
| 5 | But what struck like an ice-cold knife into Owen 's heart was the group of six or seven men standing in the middle of the road , between him and the fire , laughing and jeering at the villagers ' puny efforts to save their homes . |
| 6 | She stood up , holding her hands to her face , laughing and weeping at the same time , gasping for breath , feeling her heart and only finally throwing her arms up in joy . |
| 7 | Nails was laughing and shivering at the same time , so excited that he felt almost ill with it . |
| 8 | The two women held one another , laughing and crying at the same time , while little Danny pulled at Ruth 's skirt , wanting to know , ‘ Who 's that lady , Mam ? ’ |
| 9 | Suddenly the anguish was gone and she was laughing and crying at the same time . |
| 10 | Quiss clawed at the wall , tearing the faded , yellowing books away from it , throwing them behind him like a dog digging a hole in the sand , bellowing incoherently and tearing and swiping at the wall , baring the green-black slate beneath as the torn , ripped pages fluttered away behind him falling to the grimy glass floor like some flat , grubby snow . |
| 11 | The first are the rich and well-born , the other the mass of the people " , Hamilton was reported as saying at the Federal Convention in 1787 . |
| 12 | This type of debate can only be resolved when looking at the functions in some detail . |
| 13 | The possible implications of this development are best considered when looking at the more general direction which the control on discretion is , and should be , taking . |
| 14 | When he realised that arriving at The Bar meant he was still only just at the start of his wanderings or journey , he ached some nights to be told that he need go no farther than this . |
| 15 | However , each limb can now attack , clawing or kicking at the adventurers . |
| 16 | I conclude that looking at the matter from the point of view of expense incurred and not from the point of view of loss to the employer no expense could be regarded as having been incurred as a result of the decision of the authorities of the college to provide this particular benefit to the taxpayer . |
| 17 | However , it was said that looking at the employee 's base was not the be-all and end-all . |
| 18 | He was groaning and clawing at the pillow . |
| 19 | I was shivering and sweating at the same time . |
| 20 | But certainly he 'll be pushing and pushing at the front there and making runs to get in the back all night I 'm I 'm certain of that . |
| 21 | Someone was squealing and crying at the same time , as if caught in a trap . |
| 22 | There is an elaborate system of inspecting and reporting at the local level , and monitoring at the national level by the Council for the Care of Churches , and at diocesan level by Diocesan Advisory Committees . |
| 23 | He looked at her derisively and left her to it , drinking the coffee he had made and sitting at the table . |
| 24 | An anomaly will be regarded as particularly serious if it is seen as striking at the very fundamentals of a paradigm and yet persistently resists attempts by the members of the normal scientific community to remove it . |
| 25 | It 's sludging and scaling at the same time . |
| 26 | By tactfully praising and criticizing at the same time , he had pupils flocking into the school , eager to train , rightly believing he had special abilities in this sphere . |
| 27 | In the early Liverpool days of Big Flame the comrades had been obsessed with the potential of Ford workers as leaders of the British revolution , and had put great effort into organizing and recruiting at the local Halewood plant . |
| 28 | Current Department of Agriculture inspection methods — feeling , smelling and looking at the food — were judged inappropriate as , in the case of fish , they can not not detect the toxins . |
| 29 | A tale of when Saltash was a busy riverside fishing town and , so it was said , Saltash lads and maidens were noted everywhere for their smart trick of turning their hand to everything , including fishing , gardening , boat building , oyster dredging and pulling at the regatta for prizes , is that of boatswain 's mate Charles Hoskins and his sweetheart , Bessie Lee . |
| 30 | I fought for breath between heaves , snatching down flecks of vomit and coughing and spewing at the same time . |