Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A taxi driver told Gloucester Crown Court that he saw two drivers laughing at each other as they roared past him nose-to-tail just before the crash . |
| 2 | She turned away , shutting her eyes to adjust them to the darkness , and then with no further hesitation she was going down the rope hand over hand , her feet and knees checking at each knot . |
| 3 | There were three poor brothers living at that time who owned nothing in the world but one pear tree . |
| 4 | Boulton & Watt 's beam engines employed large cylinders operating at low steam pressures , and McNaught 's expedient consisted of the addition of a small higher-pressure cylinder acting on the other half of the beam about midway along its length , with an appropriately shorter stroke , exhausting its steam into the original low-pressure cylinder . |
| 5 | History work is wider than National Curriculum History , and in many respects learning at primary level is seamless , rather than compartmentalised . |
| 6 | Police Sergeant Dick Howard , here with his second family is typical of the angry ex husbands protesting at new maintenance orders . |
| 7 | The influence of the document on the SSD is noticeable ; there are two working groups looking at developing guidance on residential care and training and sexuality . |
| 8 | That the project 's objectives took the form they did was partly due to the particular interests of those involved and partly to a knowledge of other experimental projects operating at that time . |
| 9 | Thankful to hear the change in his tone , I responded with a less playful punch , and soon we were on our feet slapping at each other with a wild hilarity , a contest in which inevitably I was the loser . |
| 10 | Then , when the predator moves in for the kill , at the very last moment the butterfly fish switch direction and dash rapidly forward , leaving the frustrated would-be killers snapping at empty water . |
| 11 | He thought he might as well look over his skiing equipment , instead of listening to his parents snapping at each other . |
| 12 | So far as the latter are concerned it is evident that the movements aiming at national unification or national independence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have arisen in circumstances very different from those which prevailed when the first nation states were created . |
| 13 | Reports from the clergy in some of the affected dioceses show that they were perplexed by the variety and number of the movements emerging at this time . |
| 14 | She imagined him in his racing days driving at incredible speed towards some treacherous bend with just that same ice-cold look of control on his face . |
| 15 | To understand why Jews should be bothered by Catholics praying at this site it is necessary to go back to the role played by the Catholic Church in fomenting antisemitism , the passivity of the Pope during the war while the exterminations were underway and even the suspicions caused by the reception of Austrian President Kurt Waldheim , with his dubious war record , by the present Pope , John Paul II ( from Poland ) . |
| 16 | ‘ I would not have expected to accompany you on a romantic walk with your girlfriend , ’ Jenna said hotly , her cheeks flushing at this idea of being relegated to invalidity again . |
| 17 | Just the sort of behaviour , in fact , that , had it been the work of the lads from the local council estate , would have resulted in a platoon of plods descending at great speed , batons ready in the best of LAPD fashion . |
| 18 | It was no kindness to allow a litigant who was unsuccessful in the trial court to incur costs protesting at that result , if the decision was demonstrably correct or , as often in matrimonial disputes , if there was no ‘ right ’ answer and the trial judge must inevitably be the final arbiter . |
| 19 | So it was a , a , a firm of about a hundred years standing at that time . |
| 20 | I mostly stood on the sidelines , watching the heavy-weights raging at each other . |
| 21 | This may be the case , but you will spend much of the two or three minutes moving at sub-maximum speed , so the further you can ride on the back of aerobic respiration , the more lies in reserve for explosive onslaughts . |
| 22 | First , the sight of one of the huntsmen galloping at full speed up the drive , over the bridge and in through the ornamental gates , throwing himself off his still cantering horse , and running into the house through one of the entrances below the main staircase . |
| 23 | All other others on these pages are applicable for customers booking at any time . |
| 24 | Questions looking at this sort of relationship , explicitly mentioned in the foundation list , produced low success rates . |
| 25 | Surely , speakers and writers aiming at optimal relevance would formulate their utterances in a way that guaranteed the intended interpretation in the first place . |
| 26 | This is a time of low unemployment , a high level of demand , firms working at full capacity earning high profits , an increasing rate of inflation and probably rising interest rates as investors compete with each other for limited loanable funds . |
| 27 | An allegation that drugs are being supplied as a " liquid cash " to modify behaviour at a particular prison may point a sufficient finger at the medical officers working at that prison , even though they are not referred to by name . |
| 28 | The last stretch is down a narrow lane bordered by woods and lined with horse boxes , cars and spectators , the latter all striving to catch first sight of the leading riders coming at full gallop . |
| 29 | He sat up , and so did I. We looked at one another like two cats glaring at each other before a fight . |
| 30 | In Leningrad 's crowded streets a tram or bus ride is a virtual eyeball-to-eyeball body massage with the natives , while on the Metro , with the escalators descending at breakneck speed , there is little chance of a retreat and no toilets . |