Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sure I could find him now , but I have made a vow that I am not going to tell anyone where he is , for the man is innocent and has no hope of proving that at the moment . |
| 2 | Howard sits tensely at his drawing-board , his mouth tight shut , his eyes gazing unseeing at the paper , rigid with anxiety to produce a good big handle . |
| 3 | When he got through and began to speak he cheered up as he laughed and talked away , before becoming depressed at the end of the call . |
| 4 | In a lexicon of only 4,000 words , the most frequently occurring tri-gram at the start of a word only occurs 52 times ( it is the tri-gram pro ) . |
| 5 | He was mounted on a chestnut thoroughbred who was already becoming over-excited at the thought of the day ahead . |
| 6 | Her mother was becoming suspicious at the amount of time she spent in her room , but Lizzie had told her everyone liked to be on their own at times . |
| 7 | In 18 patients the operation had been a two stage procedure with a covering ileostomy being closed some three months after primary surgery while in five patients a one stage restorative proctocolectomy with ileal reservoir was performed with the ileal reservoir becoming functional at the time of proctocolectomy . |
| 8 | Launching APT at the end of November with the Euromark futures contract will reinforce the point . |
| 9 | Things are becoming intolerable at the club these days and the boot sale is only part of it . |
| 10 | Keeping cool at the Excelsior |
| 11 | With the Amazon Swords , there are lot of very good , very large plants becoming available at the moment . |
| 12 | The Swansea and Neath Society was founded in December 1822 but made no appeal through a public meeting until January 1826 ; the Manchester Society , although becoming active at the beginning of 1824 , issued no report to the public until March 1827 and had only had its first public meeting on 22 March 1826 . |
| 13 | They 're keeping quiet at the moment saying simply that they 've invested a lot in new technology and models , and their cars are doing well against others in the country . |
| 14 | The demand for another tv series has exceded the number of books Dexter has written so far , though he is writing another at the moment . |
| 15 | I 'm writing this at the home of a friend in Michigan . |
| 16 | I 'm writing this at the start of the war in the Gulf . |
| 17 | She also was looking brave at the prospect of three weeks in the summer without their regular Thursday table at the ‘ Dolce Vita ’ near his office in the City . |
| 18 | He watched her making her way through the crowds on the pavement outside Lewis 's already looking bored at the prospect of spending her grandfather 's money . |
| 19 | It 's looking promising at the moment , we 've had a lot of support from the people of Didcot , er a number of companies have made donations , T N T express have given us a van to er transport the bikes to the start/finish , and Denton Cycles spares for the bikes if we break down , punctures being the worst |
| 20 | ‘ What 'll you have , then ? ’ asked Bill heartily , and then , with his odd alternations of mood on him : ‘ What 'll it be ? ’ quite mournfully , and looking bewildered at the array of bottles . |
| 21 | The unequal distribution of resources in stratified societies enables the better-off to obtain privileged access to educational facilities to have their talent developed , while at the same time disadvantaging those at the bottom . |
| 22 | All it contained were the table and two wooden chairs , one of which Hall now gripped the back of , looking first at the policeman then at Scott . |
| 23 | Looking first at the mechanism of the separation process ( a ) ; in simple terms , the large molecules , which occupy the greatest effective volume in solution , are excluded from the smaller pore sizes in the gel and pass quickly through the larger channels between the gel particles . |
| 24 | It continues the examination of the behavioural determinants of demand , by looking first at the role and significance of social class . |
| 25 | Roebuck added the conversion , and the Aussies were coasting 19–0 at the interval . |
| 26 | Please write to me , c/o Machine Knitting Monthly at the address on page 3 |
| 27 | ‘ Everything seems to be going wrong at the moment . ’ |
| 28 | With just one goal in five games you do n't have to be an expert to see where Oxford are going wrong at the moment . |
| 29 | Canada dominated the scoring , leading 22–6 at the interval and by 19 points in as many minutes with outside-half Gareth Rees , back after a winter in France , scoring the first nine and going on to a 20-point afternoon . |
| 30 | United , leading 3-0 at the time , conceded two goals at the final whistle . |