Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keeping things simple is often the best bet , an investment of both time and effort is required to learn anything new , so diving in at the deep end with one of the full-blown integrated packages may cause more disruption than it 's worth . |
| 2 | The skinhead style , for all its apparent knuckleheadedness , is a consciously held pose , a deliberate turning back to earlier , more certain times when men were men and girls stuck by their blokes through thick and thin , a time when an observer could tell an individual 's social status by merely glancing down at the footwear or at the way a person walked . |
| 3 | There was a woman standing at one of the second-storey windows when Gentle reached the intersection , just gazing out at the street . |
| 4 | Here she was , without Simon , sitting peacefully looking out at the view . |
| 5 | A grey car , immaculately clean , was just pulling up at the gate and a big man in a plain grey suit was getting out to open it . |
| 6 | Just getting up at the start of the day without complaining , is an achievement . |
| 7 | Then she checked her appearance in the mirror , objectively staring back at the exquisite reflection , the shining flaxen hair , the huge dark eyes , the full mouth . |
| 8 | He 'd said his prayers and celebrated Mass , Benedicta just slipping in at the door and kneeling next to the baptismal font instead of coming further up the nave . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's much simpler just draping a piece of material round you to work out what shape would work best and then just sitting down at the sewing machine ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It 's much simpler just draping a piece of material round you to work out what shape would work best and then just sitting down at the sewing machine ! ’ |
| 11 | " They 're not exactly queuing up at the door , though , are they ? " |
| 12 | For some unexplained reason you were still lurking about at a time when , normally , you would long since have gone home . ’ |
| 13 | It was Ranald who explained , always keeping on at the massage . |
| 14 | I was still looking down at the girl in the grass . |
| 15 | And she sat there , still looking down at the sand . |
| 16 | He paused a moment , still looking down at the body , the head in the centre of a spreading pool of blood . |
| 17 | We talked of toxic wastes ; the possibility of there ever being true democracy in Tonga ( ‘ on paper the place is ripe for revolution , it is true , and our friends in the other islands are experiencing troubled times , so we must be wary ’ ) ; the complaints about corruption among the Tongan nobility , the curious business arrangements engineered between members of the royal family and the dubious Americans who were forever fetching up at the palace doorstep wishing to bend a royal ear to this scheme or that , with wealth and fame for all ; and the most surprising news : his decision to demolish the royal palace . |
| 18 | Still hurrying along at a hundred miles an hour he leaned over towards me and lowered his voice . |
| 19 | Things do n't look likely to improve , since recruits are hardly piling up at the door . |
| 20 | Fergus took no notice ; he kept on crying , still staring up at the holes in the ceiling . |
| 21 | Fenella stayed where she was for a moment , still staring up at the imprisoned Nuadu . |
| 22 | ‘ When can I see my father ? ’ she demanded , still staring out at the city she had been born in , and feeling waves of love for its brash life force , its moneyed pavements and its frantic race against time . |
| 23 | ‘ Now is the best time , ’ Athelstan replied , drawing closer , whispering into Sir John 's ear , conscious that Lady Maude was totally absorbed in the pageant before her whilst Benedicta , distracted , was still staring back at the admiring gallant . |
| 24 | I may try to shrink myself to an infinitesimal point of thinking Ego to which all spontaneous process is external , but the spontaneous is always springing up at the centre of me , thrusting me forward or dragging me back , and it is only at the periphery that I can take full control of it . |
| 25 | What do you hope you can do in terms of providing or possibly squeezing out at the eleventh hour , the cash that you need from the Oxfordshire Regional Health Authority , to try and stop er routine patients not being treated from Monday ? |
| 26 | Leeds charged back down the M62 still mouthing off at the injustice of defeat . |
| 27 | George had come to stand beside her , also looking down at the baby . |
| 28 | Idea now catching on at the double |
| 29 | But in these cases it is necessary to know what was really going on at the time . |
| 30 | But it does seem that he had some hint of the future : not only does his idea of the arena in which Pandemonium ( 1831 ) took place look like Wembley Stadium but his high-rise Tower of Babel in Belshazzar 's Feast might almost have been modelled on the General Accident Life building now going up at the side of Lendal Bridge on the way to York 's Railway Station . |