Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] at this [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Meg 's no good — she 's away — and you wo n't want to be driving far at this time of night … ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I stood beside the drill and kept looking up at this line we had just made ; and it was like a gun-barrel . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Looking back at this morning — any early mist patches soon cleared and although it was a dry staert everywhere , it has remained cloudy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Things are going on at this school , ’ went on Dr Ali , in a whisper , ‘ of which it is difficult for a good Muslim to approve . ’ |
| 12 | Quite a gesture , turning up at this hour . |
| 13 | Pinned above Beth 's bed , next to the card proclaiming her to be a spiritualist , was a photograph of a male dancer from the newly formed Royal Ballet , and I came in one day soon after I arrived at Huntingdon to find a knot of giggling girls peering up at this dancer , who was poised on one foot , wearing an agonised expression and very tight tights . |
| 14 | It is perhaps worth noting briefly at this point a special type of recurrent semantic relationship between lexical units sharing a lexical form , which is of particular significance in lexical semantics ( it is discussed in greater detail in connection with markedness and neutralisation in chapter 11 ) . |
| 15 | Not to exaggerate the cat 's breeding abilities , it must be recorded that from the age of eight until twelve years there is a gradual decline in the number of kittens produced in each litter , so the reproductive apparatus is beginning to show signs of slowing down at this stage , and only the strongest and healthiest of moggies can stay the full course . |
| 16 | The unmitigated gall of the man , strolling up at this time and expecting a welcome . |
| 17 | Mrs. Jervis , step upstairs to keep the maids from coming down at this noise . |
| 18 | For several weeks now he had been chipping away at this problem of finding Elsie , slowly nagging it into submission . |
| 19 | ‘ What on earth are you doing home at this time ? ’ she demanded . |
| 20 | To miss the odd target is acceptable , but not finds coming up at this rate and in such a confined area . |
| 21 | " If I go on blowing out at this rate , I wo n't have a thing to wear by January ! " |
| 22 | ‘ You 'll meet him coming back at this time of day . ’ |
| 23 | If all is running smoothly at this point you have two further pitfalls awaiting you . |
| 24 | ‘ Newman , what are you doing here at this hour ? |
| 25 | ‘ What on earth are you doing here at this hour ? ’ |
| 26 | What are you doing here at this time ? |
| 27 | What 's he doing here at this time of night ? |
| 28 | ‘ What on earth are you doing here at this time of the morning ? ’ she demanded sleepily . |
| 29 | ‘ Of course I 've got a minute — what the bloody hell d' you think I 'm doing here at this time of night ? ’ |
| 30 | Since you are not connecting up at this stage , the rising main can be installed at a leisurely pace . |