Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At night , while John 's impatient body sleeps , I listen to the waves loosely slapping at the side of the stilled ship . |
| 2 | ‘ State Department officials were unavailable for comment , ’ the New York Times reported , thereby hinting at the source of the leak , but if the story had been aired as a trial balloon , it failed to lift off . |
| 3 | Pots will be attractive to add instant colour and a path sweeps away under the pergola towards the rockery where it turns through a right angle in front of the rose bed , eventually ending at the vegetable plot that is neatly screened by the hedge . |
| 4 | Letters regularly occur in certain combinations and positions with , for example , the letter Q always being followed by U , and a number of letters rarely appearing at the end of a word ( e.g. , J V ) . |
| 5 | Few things were more demoralising than to stand uselessly by while other men demonstrated their professional competence ; Kerrison , that connoisseur of death , literally sniffing at the body ; the photographers , taciturn , preoccupied with lighting and angles ; Inspector Doyle , in charge of a murder case at last , impresario of death , tense with the suppressed excitement of a child at Christmas gloating over a new toy . |
| 6 | Yet neither club commands very great support and even a Second Division Hartlepool or Darlington perhaps struggling at the foot of the division would be unlikely to attract more than 56,000 per game . |
| 7 | Athelstan sat looking at her in wonderment , constantly marvelling at the difference in women , contrasting this hag to the beauty of Lady Isabella . |
| 8 | Er and therefore it looks at erm the indirect impact of development erm and it 's it 's more sophisticated one might say than merely looking at the quality of the land . |
| 9 | While it has made no formal application to offer video-on-demand to customers — the official line is that it is merely looking at the technology 's potential — it is already clear that it faces a tough task convincing regulatory bodies that it has the right to do so . |
| 10 | No have a look , you 're only looking at the beginning of it here try again |
| 11 | The book is also universally regarded as McGahern 's masterpiece , a view probably best expressed by playwright Tom Kilroy who described ‘ Amongst Women ’ as ‘ one of the most significant achievements in Irish fiction ’ and suggested that McGahern ‘ is obviously writing at the fullness of his power . ’ |
| 12 | Therefore , they were left with the option of investing millions of pounds or closing them , and perhaps looking at the building of a new reactor . |
| 13 | There was one vehicle there , a car with two figures sitting in the front seats and apparently looking at the road ahead of them . |
| 14 | One lady crouched under the leathery flanks of a water buffalo , gently pulling at the beast 's udders , shooting warm jets of frothy milk into a battered tin pail . |
| 15 | Far from creating a feeling of dissatisfaction , the opening up of such discussions frequently seemed to give them an opportunity to face questions that had been suppressed , but none the less niggling at the back of their minds . |
| 16 | Just as the smell of a ripe Camembert is only mouthwatering at the dinner table , the attraction of female odours is likely to depend on their context . |
| 17 | Although Goblins and Squigs have different movement rates , the whole unit keeps together moving at the speed of the Goblins . |
| 18 | As one policewoman in the unit explained , ‘ You 're only getting at the problem left behind after the crime has been committed . ’ |
| 19 | But it was hard to scowl , she found , when her heart was suddenly skittering at the way the dark eyes were quite openly smiling as they continued to focus on her now lightly rising bosom . |
| 20 | Much swelling at the site . |
| 21 | We 're only hoping at the end of this year , hopefully the company will incest in it . |
| 22 | In fact , behind the bland constitutional concern to protect human rights through a Bill of Rights , there often lurks a partisan and intensely political concern to restrict the role of the state because of an attachment to a theory of limited government , born of a desire to use the law to defend the private sphere and capitalism , so hitting at the possibility of socialism and the democratic road to its attainment . |
| 23 | Corbett , gently dreaming at the end of a bench , could well believe it and wondered if this time Satan would search him out . |
| 24 | Almost , you know and they said they were better , we were right looking at the stage over this time . |
| 25 | Discreetly looking at the price , and mentally reviewing how much money she had on her , and thinking wryly that perhaps , after all , she should have accepted half the prize money for the leprechaun , she bought it . |
| 26 | There she was , sitting forlornly in a corner and , unlike all the other dogs , making no noise , just gazing at the floor in a philosophical way . |
| 27 | That was particularly true now that land values were no longer inflating at the rate of the last decade or so . |
| 28 | Where just walking at the moment at cottage hospital now . |
| 29 | If the latter , this should be done in late summer or early autumn , when the main summer growth has flowered and is beginning to wither , but new shoots are just appearing at the base of the plant . |
| 30 | The easiest uses to come to grips with are exclamations such as ( 1 ) above , because they give a very clear impression of somehow looking at the infinitive event from a position before : they express a desire or longing to realize the infinitive event , so that ( 1 ) might be paraphrased " I would love to be in England … |