Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] at [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third section offers a critical exploration of possible starting points for new strategies , not least by looking anew at some of the difficult and resilient questions about cultural identity and belongingness , about ethnicity and community , that were often glossed over or disavowed in the antiracist movement . |
| 2 | He raised his voice , looking up at one of the security cameras . |
| 3 | But before it does , the Daily Mirror , along with Carry On creators Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas , has been looking back at some of the funniest moments ever to be played out on the big screen . |
| 4 | Before we go a word about tomorrow night 's programme when we 'll be looking back at some of the highlights from the first ten years of Central News . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , last year 's president , Alan Wilcox , Richmond 's Town Clerk , is putting together a bumper centenary brochure looking back at some of the highlights . |
| 6 | She was lying on her back , pulling lazily at one of her nipples , watching it stretch . |
| 7 | ‘ Going round at dead of night , eavesdropping on people 's conversations . |
| 8 | ‘ Cleaned out again , confound it ! ’ he said aloud , kicking moodily at one of the logs , and sending a shower of sparks up the chimney . |
| 9 | Ruth was standing by the window , isolated by intention , gazing out at one of the seven bridges built for access to the Seville Expo site . |
| 10 | In September he startled Italians by lashing out at one of Sicily 's most popular fighters against the Mafia , Leoluca Orlando , an ex-mayor of Palermo , who was guilty in Mr Cossiga 's mind of damaging the Christian Democratic Party . |
| 11 | The producer of the programme , Jack Barton , felt that ‘ if the viewers could accept Nina and her disabilities , there was a chance of chipping away at some of the old prejudices that stand to prevent mentally handicapped people from being accepted in the community . ’ |
| 12 | But 26-year-old Vanessa Curtis is juggling three — and doing well at all of them . |
| 13 | He paused , frowning while staring ahead at some of the other riders , then he said , ‘ Excuse me — I must stop them from taking the wrong track . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ He does n't know your true station , remember , ’ interposed Ellen , lowering her voice and glancing over at one of the tables , where her parent was enjoying a tankard of his own home-brew . |
| 15 | Horrified , she was glancing up at one of the windows above the porch and what she saw blanched what little remaining colour she had from her face . |
| 16 | Damian said , glancing up at one of the balcony cafés . |
| 17 | David Cordery , operations manager for Oxford , told The Bookseller that the robbery happened at about 5.30 p.m. when two staff were cashing up at one of the shop 's three tills . |
| 18 | On a Saturday in late January 1798 , sitting perhaps at one of the tall windows in her favourite parlour , she began the first of her surviving journals : |
| 19 | The chocolate-coloured Russian Blue was sniffing and pawing experimentally at one of the corpses . |
| 20 | I think also we ought to be guarded about too much detailed discussion of travel distances , we are talking here at most of travel distances of between six and ten miles , in keeping with the policy , erm it seems to me that erm if we we spend too much time on trying to determine whether six or ten miles distant , is is there any great significance in terms of the global environment it would be at least an unproved case , one way or the other , but also there seems to me to be a clear conflict in those who are trying to say that the new settlement proposal falls because not large enough of a site is being proposed , one way and another . |
| 21 | He congratulates himself on not fainting or throwing up at any of this and drinks heavily for the rest of the evening . |
| 22 | Seb looked up towards the manor house and saw a dancing orange light flickering erratically at one of the upstairs windows . |