Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was more than a shock I put my head in my in my hand and I remember kneeling right at this spot and just crying my heart out . |
| 2 | For most Southern advertisers and agencies , however , 1993 will be a year of hanging on at any cost . |
| 3 | One can only deduce that the Eurasian and African plates began driving together at this time , with the latter dragged down beneath the rising Alpine mountains . |
| 4 | And er you you you could hear them patting this butter outside a shop you know , it was a lovely sound on marble slabs and they were patting away at this butter . |
| 5 | I work at a distribution centre , where there is continuous shiftwork , which means that women and men are walking home at all hours of day and night often taking short-cuts across playing fields and waste land , totally unaware of the potential dangers . |
| 6 | ‘ Meg 's no good — she 's away — and you wo n't want to be driving far at this time of night … ’ |
| 7 | Tess seemed like a queen to Clare , perhaps because he knew that she was the most beautiful woman walking about at this time of day . |
| 8 | There is a danger in the search for good practice of looking only at those schools with good academic records . |
| 9 | In an hour they were all ready and stood in the parlour looking humorously at each other in their best shirts of white linen and clean breeches . |
| 10 | We should be looking not at such practice in the past but rather in the future — more of that later . |
| 11 | But last year American Airlines and United started nibbling away at this business when they replaced bankrupt Pan Am and TWA on many of the services between America and London . |
| 12 | Commoners were discouraged from looking directly at any part of his person other than his feet . |
| 13 | You can SCAN , which involves just looking quickly at each page , to pick out anything which you recognise as being relevant to you , and which you can then read in detail ( scanning involves looking for keywords ) . |
| 14 | It was only as we were doing this and grinning inanely at each other that I noticed the red Transit van turning out of the other end of the street . |
| 15 | Radulfus maintained his judicial calm , and the earl 's broad brow was suave and benign , though there was no guessing what went on in the highly intelligent mind behind it ; but Prior Robert and Sub-Prior Herluin sat very erect , stiff in the spine and with long , refined faces sharpened into steel , studiously not looking straight at each other , but maintaining each a bright gaze on distance , and the appearance of considering with magisterial detachment the situation that confronted them . |
| 16 | ‘ I stood beside the drill and kept looking up at this line we had just made ; and it was like a gun-barrel . |
| 17 | I can see part of Horse Guards Parade almost see myself standing there the other afternoon , looking up at these windows , still ignorant of what I was looking at . |
| 18 | But she thought , looking back at that pewter sky and narrow saffron afterglow as the Aston Martin purred into life and shot away at speed : Yes , individuals do ! |
| 19 | Looking back at that period , the crucial difference in Conservative politicians was between those who thought that the last twenty or thirty years had not been too bad , and who were sceptical that anything better could be achieved , and those who hoped that something better could be won and saw the last quarter of a century as a slow but steady decline . |
| 20 | Looking back at those debates on how we could fill in the time on our hands , the novelist Herbert Gold reflected that the Fifties were a time of ‘ happy people with happy problems ’ . |
| 21 | I 'm sure our successors will be looking back at those acquisitions as good ones ! |
| 22 | Looking back at this time , Nigel was surprisingly patient , but he was worried that , if he did n't improve , he 'd be unable to help with the move as almost any movement of his right arm increased his suffering . |
| 23 | Looking back at this morning — any early mist patches soon cleared and although it was a dry staert everywhere , it has remained cloudy . |
| 24 | The major clubs are looking sympathetically at any scheme which will reduce the number of matches to be played next season . |
| 25 | So I was surprised when one morning , while filling the kettle at the tap in the yard , I noticed some of our neighbours looking across at this cottage where a painter was taking the ‘ To Let ’ sign out of the window . |
| 26 | By looking hard at any way in which we can raise extra income for this authority . |
| 27 | ( The fact that a huge lorry was passing by at that time must have been coincidental , I 'm sure . ) |
| 28 | The pupils all began looking round at each other and Mildred knew there was little time before someone recognized her . |
| 29 | So , looking again at these legends with a possible energy explanation in mind , we can postulate that , in the case of healing , it is the energy which heals , particularly with repeated movement in one direction and prolonged contact . |
| 30 | I would like therefore to begin by looking briefly at that context and then move onto the skills which the diplomates will train their students to achieve , the level of skills their students are likely to have already and outline some of the issues met by the Dip . |