Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the coffee bar she and Susan were laughing together at a story in the newspaper . |
| 2 | It follows that a singularity may normally be considered as occurring only at a boundary of space-time . |
| 3 | There were two black entertainers banging away at a piano . |
| 4 | Not only did the train travel fast , it spread fast and soon the world was opening up at a pace not previously imagined . |
| 5 | And after dying horribly at a Nottingham University ball , I was confronted by a dandruff-afflicted sound operator in a Marillion T-shirt , who advised me to ‘ cut the left-wing politics , mate . ’ |
| 6 | For some unexplained reason you were still lurking about at a time when , normally , you would long since have gone home . ’ |
| 7 | They challenged a man who was seen acting suspiciously at a horses ' rest home near their RAF base . |
| 8 | RESIDENTS on a Londonderry housing estate tracked two men they had earlier seen allegedly acting suspiciously at a car used by a Ministry of Defence worker , a court heard yesterday . |
| 9 | The Spanish reporter , Alfonso Roja , describes a woman in Baghdad , her eyes smouldering , shouting down at a crowd of Western journalists : ‘ Is this what you call Western civilisation ? ’ |
| 10 | Meeting together at a disability arts event can also provide rare opportunities for disabled people to exchange ideas . |
| 11 | If I am looking directly at a stick insect , 8 inches in front of my nose and in strong daylight , I shall not be fooled by it . |
| 12 | When the famous peacock screen folded its tail and disappeared into the floor of the stage and the small orchestra began to play she was ready and waiting , standing on the slight rise looking directly at a stage which appeared suspended in the air against the night sky . |
| 13 | He was imagining himself sitting in a tiny Kayak in the middle of the Severn looking up at a wall of water , anything from six to nine feet high depending on conditions , bearing down on him at twelve miles an hour and making more noise than a fast approaching train . |
| 14 | She stopped looking up at a rocket : a towering metal redwood that had never flown because the ones that flew were junk scattered across the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 15 | Both approaches are reflected in the report to annual parent meetings and both require a looking back at a school 's achievements in order that differences or improvements can be headlined . |
| 16 | But as Dr Johannes Hallauer , Head of Communicable Diseases and Hygiene Section at the German Ministry for Health and a VHPB special adviser , pointed out , the degree of risk can not be calculated by looking solely at a person 's job title . |
| 17 | The last flourish on codes belonged to George Cave , translating again at a September meeting with the Iranians in Washington , who ended his memorandum of record thus . |
| 18 | The advent of the car and the discovery of Keld by motorists have lessened the remoteness and loneliness of the village and recently it has become a crossroads of long-distance walkers , the Pennine Way and the Coast to Coast Walk meeting briefly at a footbridge over the river . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh ! ’ he said , stopping the car and looking hurriedly at a map . |
| 20 | At this moment Badger skulked into the kitchen , loped over to the pedal bin , and stood gazing mournfully at a piece of orange peel , just visible over the edge of the plastic rim . |
| 21 | They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions . |
| 22 | One of them was an old man , sipping slowly at a beer . |
| 23 | Relaxed and complacent , we headed our way out of the pub and down to a dip — then straight up a ferocious bank turning right at a junction in the road , signposted to Dale End . |
| 24 | As a result evidence … clearly showed that the two Constables had been idling and gossiping together at a place where one of them had no right to be … [ and ] that the Acting Sergeant , on his round of inspection , met these two Constables together , failed to note in his book , as was required in the regulations , the place where and the time where he met them , and to see that the Constables then noted in their books the time and place of his visit … |
| 25 | But then he started scribbling away at A Year in Provence and the rest is history . |
| 26 | Growing usually at a height of between I –0 to I 60 metres the vineyards curve round from an eastern to south-eastern aspect , and climb on to higher ground towards the edge of the Bois de Cormont . |
| 27 | Hundreds were able to pay their respects and express their condolences by turning up at a charity rugby match at Shiplake College , Berkshire , in aid of the Charlotte Starmer-Smith Memorial Fund which aims to purchase medical equipment for the treatment of blood diseases . |
| 28 | At a Labour conference you get Gerry Adams turning up at a fringe meeting , and he the leader of Sinn Fein , which is cousin to the IRA , which in 1984 , in this same town , blew up the Grand Hotel in an attempt to murder the Prime Minister and Cabinet . |
| 29 | Leland Palmer ignores him , doing what all good rock'n'roll drivers do : pointing out the house where Robin Williams lives , pulling up at a liquor store , and drawing our attention to a woman with an exceptionally large arse riding a bike . |
| 30 | She got up and walked around nervously , fetching up at a cabinet with a heavy silver box on top . |