Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Achieve a sixties feel by gently backcombing hair at the crown . |
| 2 | Gently shelving sea at the Don Juan |
| 3 | Socrates had a contempt for tragedy ; yet we hear anecdotes about him helping Euripides with his plays and only watching tragedy at the theatre if there was a new play by Euripides on . |
| 4 | Apart from evaporation ( unlikely except in an unoccupied house in hot weather ) , the main problem is that water can be ‘ siphoned ’ or sucked out of traps if the system has not been designed properly to avoid pipes running ‘ full ’ and thus causing suction at the trap . |
| 5 | It can be , sort of , for festive purposes , you 're just poking fun at the priest or something |
| 6 | Exactly 3.7 nanoseconds after play commences , I 'm usually hurling abuse at the game , the C64 , my fellow ZZAP ! reviewers and anything that moves within a ten-yard radius . |
| 7 | Compton has also concluded that decentralization has continued despite the energy crisis , the south is still gaining population at the expense of the north ; East Anglia , the South West and the East Midlands continue to be the fastest growing regions ; and that Wales is about to join them . |
| 8 | In view of the much publicised claims of skill shortages for IT staff in 1984 , It was rather surprising to find such a high proportion of Advanced Course students still seeking employment at the end of their courses . |
| 9 | Delivery of the final members of the class was still taking place at the end of the decade , but the early members had by then settled into their routine of West Coast InterCity push-pull passenger duties with similarlooking new driving van trailers at the opposite end , plus freights from the North to the East Coast ports via the newly electrified North London link . |
| 10 | Astonishing to me at least , since it 's a mountain I 'm intimate with from its friendly north face , and had little notion of its dramatic cliffs lurking sneakily behind me all those times I sat innocently chewing chocolate at the top . |
| 11 | . And on a S Monday , it were always killing day at the Co-op , always killing day . |
| 12 | And and it is also perhaps distracted er attention from the interesting disagreements also taking place at the Labour party conference this week between the one more pushes , if I might describe them and the hard liners who believe you 've got to be radical . |
| 13 | After a little more conversation , mainly expressing amazement at the splendour of Tamar 's circumstances , they urged their horses to a brisk pace and had no further chance to speak . |
| 14 | His eyes were hard now , glaring at d'Aubigny with the occasional sideways knowing glance at the sulky Angus . |
| 15 | Former Sun UK staffer Andrew Russell is now marketing director at the company , which has 20 employees . |
| 16 | She is here doing research at the university with one of my husband 's oldest friends , and is staying a week or two here before moving to a flat . |
| 17 | It was a spectator sport where young men would show their courage by standing in the path of the maddened bull and then leaping side at the last moment . |
| 18 | Boy would have been happiest to stand on the end of a pier from which big ships , real proper ocean ships , embarked ; but he would have settled for just an ordinary pier , a small one — so long as it was big enough for him to walk away from the city , into the wind , turn his back on everything and stand there looking west at an empty sea , or a far horizon , and think about America , or somewhere . |
| 19 | Despite sometimes experiencing frustration at the slow progress towards Christian Unity , he said , we should try very hard to understand and overcome the difficulties congregations of different faiths have in getting to know each other and working together . |
| 20 | Possibly the first Inn was the Five Bells , which was probably the ale house mentioned in 1586 , when William Cokar of Halling was sent to gaol for keeping an ale house and allowing gambling i.e. maintaining play at the dice of his own authority as a result of which he was bound , over to the next Sessions . |
| 21 | Improving the outlook for patients will require either diagnosing cancer at an asymptomatic and presumably earlier phase or offering more effective treatment for those with advanced disease . |
| 22 | It would seem that perhaps browsing at the shelves should not be considered as an alternative to catalogue use ; instead browsing support at the catalogue could bee seen as perhaps improving retrieval effectiveness at the shelves by providing direction or orientation through navigational aids . |
| 23 | The system , currently undergoing testing at an AEA Technology plant , works by incinerating the tyres at temperatures up to 1080 degrees centigrade . |
| 24 | The police being used in fighting guerrillas in effect increased the strength of the army by 10,000 ; 240 of their officers were currently undergoing training at the Infantry School . |
| 25 | In both cases these are intellectuals talking about their own work by linking it with a process continually taking place at a popular level and in everyday life . |
| 26 | Miss Akabasharune from Banbury Road in the city , is currently studying politics at the polytechnic . |