Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it should be clear in looking at any landscape that some places are , or have been , more important than others . |
| 2 | I would be interested in looking at this , although there is now so much pressure on space in our magazine that is may not be possible to include it . |
| 3 | So can you er look at it in that light and you will see of course that and I can understand why Mr has done it in this way , he has actually broken down er his the approach to this to looking at this criterion , under the three heads , road , rail and bus . |
| 4 | However , for practical reasons , most are concentrating only on the borders to their own territories , and for cultural reasons ( say their customers ) some are still not serious about competing at all , and retain the old , nationalised take-it-or-leave-itism . |
| 5 | His lordship is very assiduous in attending at that service . ’ |
| 6 | It is impossible by looking at any structure to work out how it developed . |
| 7 | I got so sick of looking at that . |
| 8 | The Mamur Zapt was in charge of law and order in Cairo and that meant keeping the city quiet and stopping them all from getting at each other 's throats . |
| 9 | And what I do n't wan na do , is is to get involved in looking at all these and saying , oh . |
| 10 | He 's really not very good at sitting at all . |
| 11 | Gibbs and fullback Tony Clement were full of running at all times and , while B.C. led again 17–15 with another Graf penalty , Swansea were ultimate winners as outside-half Stephen Jones added a second winning penalty to his earlier conversion of Gibb 's score . |
| 12 | It was a sunny day , and the garden party in the grounds of the school was a success , for Deborah and Stephen Manning , alerted by Sebastian and Alix , had insisted on presenting champagne ( you wo n't get anything to drink otherwise , they had been warned ) and it went quickly to the heads of those unaccustomed to drinking at all , while Sebastian 's contingent had primed themselves at their hotel before arriving , in double defence . |
| 13 | He was not much used to giving at all . |
| 14 | Many of those studies use the States themselves as their organizing units , if for no other reason than the convenience that data are readily available for mapping at that scale . |
| 15 | For a 13-year-old who may not be too hot on writing at all , it 's asking a great deal . |
| 16 | There had been something extraordinarily delightful and exhilarating about sitting at that big oval mahogany table drinking whisky at two o'clock in the morning . |
| 17 | She was being stupidly short-sighted in snapping at this man . |