Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pounded on the masonry with her fist and then , after tearing at the fastenings round her right foot , with the heel of her boot . |
| 2 | A townscape of nightmare yellows : sky , buildings , furniture , wallpaper , faces — the colour of age , heat , pestilence , bile and jaundice , bruisings and stainings , with a stronger connotation of dirt in Russian than in English ; the colour of the tickets of identification which prostitutes were required to carry ; the colour of Raskolnikov 's ‘ cubbyhole ’ of a room ; and the colour which greets him when he comes to after fainting at the police station and sees a man ‘ holding a yellow glass filled with yellow water ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I have another eyepiece on the end which is suitable for looking at the stars and planets . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | " There were no people studying these animals , no facilities for looking at the carcasses , for establishing the cause of death . |
| 8 | Through shouting at the children and playing |
| 9 | Before the Digital Servo Interface is described it may be worth looking at the principles of operation of these model servos . |
| 10 | For examples of carefully worded questions in public opinion polls it is worth looking at the newspapers to see how very carefully the professional market research firms word their questions when they are asking ordinary people for their current political views . |
| 11 | " If you do not have an existing service agreement with Olympus it is certainly worth looking at the options available — whatever type of instrument is in use . " |
| 12 | If , however , this investment of time and effort for training and research into the market is beyond the reach of your dealership , there are , after all , only so many things that can be tackled in a day , it is worth looking at the alternatives . |
| 13 | Over the last 20 years there has been a move away from looking at children and adults in isolation towards looking at the needs of both , in terms of the family . |
| 14 | And the idea of nibbling at the perks of city employees earning ( on average ) under $10,000 a year , while millions are made on Wall Street , plays poorly on the hustings . |
| 15 | It was Barron who had made a show of looking at the figures but it was MacQuillan who had screamed at Pascoe down the telephone accusing him of fraud . |
| 16 | One way of looking at the effects of the kind of industry they work in is to see whether black people and whites living in the same area — inner cities for example — have similar rates of unemployment . |
| 17 | Erm and , and that wants to be part of that exercise , really , of , of looking at the reasons a a and telling us whether we need to take any action . |
| 18 | This is not simply a question of looking at the differences in income , wealth , or educational opportunities between men and women or between different ethnic groups . |
| 19 | However , on the physical science course , this module took the form of looking at the problems students might face as scientific managers in industry : issues like risk management , the problems of pollution , dealing with pressure groups and preparing public reports . |
| 20 | The more opportunities he/she has of looking at the illustrations and reading the captions with you , the more he/she will come to recognise the words . |
| 21 | After a while Moran tired of looking at the newspapers and went outside though it was almost night . |
| 22 | The Newson studies do , however , suggest ways of looking at the backgrounds of those children we are setting out to serve . |
| 23 | She told him she was too busy to attend to the matter , whilst the guests gave up all pretence of looking at the pictures to stare at the intruder . |
| 24 | None of them thought of looking at the ricks . |
| 25 | A tin of rings and a ten shilling note , a woodshed and an oak tree , an innocence , never to be reclaimed , a shock which changed even the ways of looking at the ferns and foxgloves , droopy-leaved sallow , buckthorn , white-beam and goat willow . |
| 26 | But inspiration came in the form of a fellow photographer he met at the printers , who suggested a different way of looking at the images . |
| 27 | Last year 's holiday was great , last year , and I might get a bit of enjoyment out of looking at the photographs , but I 'm still paying for one again this year ! |
| 28 | One way of getting at the varieties of relationship in these poems is to group them , not too dogmatically , into poems where the I dominates , and those where the Thou carries more weight . |
| 29 | He had a tame magpie which , in keeping with tradition , would occasionally steal shiny objects , and a short-eared brown owl which was quartered in his barn and developed a habit of flying at the heads of visitors and knocking off their hats . |
| 30 | Weary of staring at the advertisements opposite her , Clare took Mrs Syms 's letter from her handbag , and read it once more . |