Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [v-ing] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , because there is a food shortage , the affected people have the choice of eating contaminated food or not eating at all . |
| 2 | For either student , going at the wrong pace can well mean not learning as much as the average , or not learning at all , and this is true for the highly intelligent student as well as the one with learning difficulties . |
| 3 | Plodding upwards , looking straight ahead of me or hardly looking at all , I was conscious suddenly of something on either side , looked to the right and the left . |
| 4 | Even their reports , which before the war would have been held together by close logic and the normal sense of what was being said , are now things of numbered paragraphs ( the British Library report cited earlier has sections with triple numbers , such as 9.6.1. and even the conclusions of chapters have introductions ) with no style or overall understanding at all . |
| 5 | ‘ Better than not caring at all , ’ said Keith . |
| 6 | Even if you do n't continue with breastfeeding after the first few days , giving your baby colostrum ( the fluid produced by the breasts immediately after the birth ) has major benefits and is obviously better than not breastfeeding at all . |
| 7 | A period of working on contract abroad could leave the employee worse off than not going at all . |
| 8 | I 'm not sure whether that 's true , I mean I think the argument er in this particular case is about the amount of money which a particular area of the Department of Social Security can operate , and presumably looking at this , Nichola Scott will have to er match up if you like the total quantity and make sure it 's effectively allocated . |
| 9 | Attached to the wall of the castle were forty of the creatures , hanging upside down and gently hissing at each other . |
| 10 | ‘ Look at that , ’ he said , and crouched and peered , drawing her in , ‘ a clock , how strange , ’ strange because it was an antique clock with inlaid wood and round brass knobs for legs , it should have been softly ticking away on someone wealthy 's mantelpiece , a china shepherdess on either side , a marble fireplace below , and yet here it was , lying under a bush , and tilted at a curious angle as if it was drunk , and not ticking at all . |
| 11 | He let go and she stood up , waving her arms and not sounding at all pleased . |
| 12 | The work naturally becomes more analytical and mathematically challenging at this stage . |
| 13 | And even looking at that one , erm erm the south west location , one would have to say that the increased accessibility erm which will shortly be afforded by the dualling of the northern section erm of the York outer relief road , er would increase the accessibility of areas to the north east of erm er of Greater York er to West Yorkshire . |
| 14 | But just looking at that figure , what does that mean , positively for us . |