Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [v-ing] at " in BNC.

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1 Look at this owl sitting looking at us .
2 The new picture is then assessed and another remedy given starting at the lowest degrees of dynamization ( LM 1 ) regardless of what potency level the previous remedy had reached .
3 It is possible that time-gap experiences represent driving at the tactical level which is conducted without controlled processes being involved , the assumption here is the common one that unless a stimulus event receives conscious attention it will not be stored in long term memory ( e.g. Bargh , 1984 ; Broadbent , 1958 ; Moray , 1959 ; Shiffrin & Schneider , 1977 ) .
4 The inner door opened , and a square-shaped woman in a brown overall stood glaring at them .
5 ‘ Whenever I stand in the middle of a big field , ’ she said , ‘ I expect some harpy to come flying at me with a hockey stick .
6 Another friend suggests jogging at 2200–2300 .
7 ‘ As it was being carried , some stockbrokers began tugging at it and a scuffle ensued .
8 The black eyes had recovered some spark of life , a question in them , as the old woman lay looking at her .
9 Indeed , insiders suggest that Motorola is now actively encouraging existing and potential 88000 users to start looking at PowerPC : talk of a NeXT portable has been doing the rounds .
10 The children themselves appeared , and after a second summer spent playing at the M's farm , and becoming ‘ socialised ’ by contact with that family , it seemed they had made some progress .
11 The second stage involves working at the library shelves .
12 As EAST Anglia awaits next week 's potentially dangerous North Sea tides , timber from the region 's small woodlands is being harvested in the constant fight to keep flooding at bay .
13 To start to answer these questions entailed looking at least one humanities subject and at least one physical science subject .
14 Corporate Relations bore speaking at normal speed .
15 The priest found his eyes drawn towards it and made a conscious effort to stop staring at it .
16 For ages afterwards all these letters kept arriving at Denmark Street from the Scientologists .
17 The extra-oral treatment requires processing at temperatures closer to the glass transition temperature where segmental mobility allows additional polymerisation .
18 In the ornate portal of a mansion-block department store an old man with buttoned overcoat and brown burnished shoes stood talking at the rain .
19 A spokesman confirmed that they probably come from the Bremen Kunstverein , from which fifty paintings , 1,715 drawings and 3,000 prints went missing at the end of the war , and that experts are still examining them .
20 All items need looking at : benefits , child care allowances , maintenance and the court procedures which make it so difficult to vary an order .
21 ‘ So many people hate working at Sakata — it 's just mindless routine work . ’
22 One day a very poor man came begging at his door .
23 If our jobless levels keep rising at the rate they have since the general election , then the north-east of Scotland may start to feel like the north-east of England .
24 In August 1961 Northgate began prospecting at Tynagh without a prospecting licence .
25 At eighty five bid standing standing at eighty five against you all seated now , at ninety pounds , standing at the back and I 'll sell at ninety pounds , are you all done , ninety pounds ninety five just in time one hundred one ten one twenty one thirty one thirty still on the left at the back at one thirty , any more now at a hundred and thirty pounds ?
26 Compulsory labour involves working at a site designated by the authorities , where prisoners are under surveillance and restricted in their movements .
27 Everett , who had been ordered to take a rest at 98 trips , was testing aircraft at the Group Maintenance Unit when he heard that there was a spare aircraft going a-begging at his old squadron .
28 Maintenance and improvement works have been carried out over the past few months resulting in the first Sunday train leaving at 5pm .
29 You may not yourself be in the habit of taking this small precaution to avoid knocking at some highly inappropriate moment , but I always have been and can vouch that it is common practice amongst many professionals .
30 On the one hand , the raising of the h = + 1 degeneracy permits self-pulsing at period tR , as described by Bonifacio and Lugiato { 7 } , whereas the Ikeda degeneracy splits to yield pulsing at 2tR/3 , 2tR/S , etc .
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