Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall return to this after looking at the other two models ( see pp. 46 – 48 ) . |
| 2 | Basically it 's no different from staying at the hotel . ’ |
| 3 | If , on the other hand , there are readers who are more interested in laughing at the past than in understanding it ; if they find disease and human suffering good for a giggle as well ; if they think that a sort of free association of ideas is a good substitute for historical explanation ; and if they are unperturbed by gross defects of style and grammar , then they will enjoy Andrew Nikiforuk 's The Fourth Horseman : A Short History of Epidemics , Plagues and Other Scourges . |
| 4 | Alex James in the 1930s had not been averse to appearing at the odd night-club , but Best 's moves were tracked by a posse of desperate journalists as he went from bed to boutique , from discothèque to dressing-room . |
| 5 | He said this without looking at the Substitute , though he would have liked to see his reaction . |
| 6 | explain this by looking at the political reasons why many women do not receive the pensions that would raise them economically ; that is , they are excluded from key decision-making structures . |
| 7 | We can see this by looking at the hydrogenation of cyclohexene . |
| 8 | Puritans found a number of the liturgical features of the established church , such as bowing at the name of Jesus and the sign of the cross in baptism , highly offensive . |
| 9 | This becomes clearer by looking at the first two stanzas . |
| 10 | 3 x Festuca glauca The blue fescue makes neat hummocks of steely , grey-blue grass , and is ideal for planting at the front of borders . |
| 11 | Aberdeen 's Paul Lawrie had to thank a homeward 35 for his 73 after starting at the tenth with a 6 and taking another at the eighteenth where he three-putted . |
| 12 | Do you think that was an attitude to that was erm unique to nursing at the time or do you think erm that possibly girls in other walks of life had the same kind of experience of discipline and demands on them ? |
| 13 | ‘ In the past , ’ he said as he returned to Robbie 's side , ‘ she 's been accustomed to sleeping at the foot of my bed . |
| 14 | After a while Moran tired of looking at the newspapers and went outside though it was almost night . |
| 15 | Tired of looking at the blank wall at the side of the house , he asked students from the Cheltenham Art College to submit ideas on decoration . |
| 16 | A constant bane of the conference organiser is arriving at a venue to load and unload a dozen mini computers , audio-visual equipment , tape recorders , packets of paper and the like , six or eight times onto trolleys , carrying them up or down steps , grazing elbows squeezing into lifts or staggering miles under their weight — all before arriving at the place where they have to be set up . |
| 17 | In I made him eat his potatoes , similarly , where the realizer of eat is " him " only , the person referred to by the direct object is represented as being involved in eating at the same time during which he is the object of the causation denoted by make : since make evokes the idea of " producing an effect " , it is impossible to conceive the making as being under way before the effect has started coming into existence . |
| 18 | My other concern is that no strategy can be competent without looking at the urban fringe — the countryside around the City , and by the nature of the Green Belt this includes land in Midlothian and East Lothian . |
| 19 | For a moment the noise was indescribable , much of it contributed by McAllister , who set up a keening cry , and , in endeavouring to make matters better by dabbing at the debris on Mrs Darrell 's lap with a damask napkin , made them worse . |
| 20 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that erm they totally solve the problem of what to do with the brighter children , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes because the sort of pupil we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptional in their own right . |
| 21 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that they totally solved the problem of what to do with the brighter child , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes , because the sort of pupils we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptions in their own right — we 're not talking about whole groups of pupils who previously have been in top streams , we 're talking about half a dozen/ten individuals in any one year group and they are equally as difficult to deal with in a streamed situation . |
| 22 | The last attempt undertaken by the DHSS concluded as much and observed that the judgement of the ward sister was fundamental in arriving at the appropriate mix of staffing ( 1 ) . |
| 23 | There was also a form of opposition to perestroika that stemmed from outdated patterns of thinking and the self-interest of those who had become used to living at the expense of others . |
| 24 | In fact , the chemistry on the earth is rather special — it 's the sort of chemistry we 're used to doing at the temperature on the earth in the conditions that occur on the earth , but interspatial space the conditions are quite different and so , in fact , it turns out the chemistry is different , and so also we find that there are molecules that we do n't expect . |
| 25 | Weary of staring at the advertisements opposite her , Clare took Mrs Syms 's letter from her handbag , and read it once more . |
| 26 | But can I just answer that because hopefully we do we do try to listen and we try to give you what information you 're capable of taking at the time . |
| 27 | Then swiftly she launches into a staccato attack on political buffoonery and the Government in general before lashing at the crass assumptions that men make about women , and reaching the parts of chaps ' angst-filled sexuality that mere innuendo could never find . |
| 28 | The left-sided winger provided the width and penetration normally supplied by Eoin Jess and Scott Booth , but Aberdeen are far from convincing at the moment . |
| 29 | You are relying upon experience to judge the roll , but use the information available by looking at the contours of the green . |
| 30 | A member of the political bureau of the ruling Popular Rally for Progress ( RPP ) , Mohammed Adabo Kabo , was dismissed on Dec. 23 after protesting at the killings , which had also prompted ( on Dec. 18 ) an expression of " severe condemnation " from the French Foreign Ministry . |