Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [v-ing] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would we feel is certainly in a coordinating way and if somebody for instance er say you 've got a husband and wife living together , one of them suddenly becomes handicapped in a particular way , what we are planning to do is trying to develop programmes which will enable the carer to have to go on training at the County Council 's expense to enable them to look after somebody in their own homes and it 's a type of thing we want to develop . |
| 2 | Caught still standing at the window , Meg 's scattered treasure , her , now lost forever , blown wits . |
| 3 | Well this is this is what I was trying to work out looking at the banking erm module that Sia , Sandra 's just given me could for the nine weeks right ? |
| 4 | They say that you can easily spot the tourists in the Big Apple — they are the people walking around gazing at the sky , at the tops of the skyscrapers . |
| 5 | Ken Corduroy drove round to the Harrisons ' with an ingenious pool-cleaning device , a mechanical object that swam round scrubbing at the walls , he had ordered for them from England . |
| 6 | We visited the Legion 's museum the following day and wandered round looking at the different flags of the units which had fought all over the world for 150 years . |
| 7 | did you carry on working at the same place ? |
| 8 | Here is this man , never previously seen doing his public duty , always seen merely roaring at the Labour Party or being interviewed like any tuppeny-ha'penny minister , now occupying the despatch-box which is the only site that gives credibility to his claim to be a prime-minister-in-waiting . |
| 9 | However , the aileron may well still be effective , and in most gliders applying the aileron to stop the wing dropping at the stall , while not recommended , does not have any noticeable tendency to cause further stalling at the tip . |
| 10 | It made him feel grown up sitting at the same table as real university students ; engineers and agricultural science students , law or medicine , they had all sat and studied around the Hegarty dining table while young Frank was working for his Intermediate and his Leaving Certificate . |
| 11 | You get fed up working at the cos you have no day in it . |
| 12 | Wandering around looking at the different displays , she experienced a strange sensation of being drawn towards something . |
| 13 | Well , I was like the rest , I 'd got to help out standing at the stalls , like . |
| 14 | While I was lying there staring at the ceiling counting the number of tiles I heard a girl going ‘ ouch , ouch that hurts ’ , when I looked over she was having difficulty with the needle going in and I noticed she was barely gripping the nice bit of perspex . |
| 15 | Although Goblins and Squigs have different movement rates , the whole unit keeps together moving at the speed of the Goblins . |
| 16 | Simple reward charts can be used to reinforce either sitting at the table or finishing a meal for the 3-year-old and older . |
| 17 | Jack recently told us the plot of a 1951 Jane Wyman movie called The Blue Veil and we both broke down sobbing at the same point of the story and sobbed for minutes . |
| 18 | The next three days were spent not looking at the buildings and architecture of gay Paree but for a mythical Adidas Centre which one of my mates overheard someone talking about in hushed tones in a Liverpool snug . |
| 19 | Town made all the running … but they kept on falling at the final hurdle in front of goal … |
| 20 | A girl who is very tall for her age may fear that she will go on growing at the same rate indefinitely , while a boy who is shorter than his mates of the same age may be afraid that he will be permanently undersized . |
| 21 | In 1916 , when her daughter Carrie 's husband was killed at the Somme , she managed that too , looking after the three-year old my mother , so that Carrie could go on working at the mill . |
| 22 | For a minute more , the boy went on gazing at the Harewoman . |
| 23 | If Dreadnought went on sinking at the present rate , in ten minutes the hole would n't be above the waterline , but below . |
| 24 | He went on looking at the disgusting bits . |
| 25 | He went on looking at the floor , thoughtful . |
| 26 | He did n't even ask the next question but went on looking at the Consul General expectantly . |
| 27 | He went on staring at the television screen , not listening to the next item , but trying to work out the puzzle . |
| 28 | He went on staring at the Hare-woman . |
| 29 | Dyson went on staring at the raindrops , saying nothing . |
| 30 | He put one hand out ; she put out hers and gripped his forearm , looked up briefly and made a noise which might have been " thanks " , and went on working at the strap of her shoe . |