Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adv prt] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a hard days slog in the office making real-life management decisions , there is nothing your average manager likes doing more than sitting down at home making pretend management decisions governing the career development of an amoeba . |
| 2 | Even if she could n't get a game , there 'd be something going on at the club , and it would be better than moping around at home . |
| 3 | Harry laughed about this , saying that childbirth was like shelling peas to a woman , and that he 's be better off at sea after the mackerel than moping about at home and getting in the way of the womenfolk . |
| 4 | But , as she stretched out a hand to stroke the mare , Maldita moved even closer to Luke , flattening her ears and lashing out at Perdita protectively with a hind leg . |
| 5 | One favourite came after a horrendous week of moon-lighting ( working during the day on a comedy , Exclusive Yarns , in Southampton and whizzing back at night for the musical , Wonderful Town ) . |
| 6 | They spent their time hiding behind low stone walls and leaping out at motorists travelling in bus lanes . |
| 7 | Jannie leaned against the edge of the dresser , smoking and looking down at Bob . |
| 8 | I voiced my resentment openly , but my fatigue was confided only to my diary and to those of my friends who already knew that I was in the habit of getting up and wandering around at night . |
| 9 | Today he is more of a celebrity than an actor , making cameo appearances , commercials and turning up at premières . |
| 10 | They live their first few months in the river , then migrate downstream to the sea ; they spend two or three years in feeding and growing out at sea , during which they cover thousands of miles ; and when mature , they migrate back to exactly the same river , and same tributary , as they were born in . |
| 11 | It was Gazzer , still clinging on like a monkey and kicking out at Simon , who was dragging him back . |
| 12 | Usually , what with shooting and swimming with the others and riding up at Biddy 's , he had only got back to the garden shed in time to flake out until morning . |
| 13 | Teachers who are unused to the behaviour of pupils with severely defective sight can be surprised by the way in which such children can move about within a setting in which they feel secure , negotiating stairs and corridors and moving along at speed with the stream of pupils going from room to room ; but unfamiliar settings and unexpected obstacles can cause difficulties or even be hazardous , and such hazards should be minimised . |
| 14 | So I think I am right in saying that all that queuing and handing over at desks on the way out is nonsense . |
| 15 | In their new school , their mother says , the Dungworth boys are ‘ very happy ’ taking spelling tests once a week and sitting down at desks . |
| 16 | I give in to this , since the weather 's behaving like it usually does at the seaside : drizzling all day and clearing up at night . |
| 17 | But looking up at Ilbrec she saw such a heartbroken sorrow that without a word she let him stoop and take Fand from her . |
| 18 | But staying out at night cost money if you did the right things : coffee bars and a movie or a disco , but if you rode round in borrowed cars it was an okay way of killing time . |
| 19 | but stopping in at night |
| 20 | It was here that Minton , whilst sunbathing out at sea on a lilo narrowly escaped the shark which , tempted by a lump of goat meat on a steel hook , was hauled in the next day . |
| 21 | However , Derek was actually seen at his best when playing in the ‘ sweeper 's ’ role , which grew to prominence while he was at the Palace , or when lining up at centre-half alongside Ian Evans in Palace 's run to the FA Cup semi-final in 1976 . |
| 22 | The situation has improved substantially since then and girls have achieved parity with boys as far as staying on at school . |
| 23 | He is very well in on a 7lb higher mark than when hacking up at Ascot in October , and has since bolted up in a conditions race at Newbury . |
| 24 | In his early days at the Bar he supported himself with such kindred activities as washing up at Lyons and libel reading for the News of the World . |
| 25 | He proved his stamina when bolting up at Newbury , but I just prefer TOP SPIN , who would have benefitted from a stronger gallop when chasing home Dare To Dream in a decent race at Lingfield . |