Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She leapt to her feet mopping furiously at the small wet patch on her skirt . |
| 2 | And Anders , showing off his strength by tearing only at the thick material of Nina 's suit . |
| 3 | And she saw old Billy , his toothless gums mumbling away at the mashed-up food she spooned into his mouth . |
| 4 | Esther was saying , returning to the guest list , recalling scores not settled a quarter of a century ago : ‘ Yes , the very man , he 's a something or other in the DES , he 's a very important chap now , you ought to have a go at him , ’ Liz replied , and as she spoke the doorbell rang , and there was the first guest , on the dot of two minutes past nine o'clock , tall , thin , grey , anxious , clutching a bunch of yellow roses , ex-priest turned analyst Joseph O'Toole , standing stranded on the black and white marble tiles , not knowing where to turn , how to divest himself of his coat , to whom to deliver his roses , a lost man , gazing mildly at the unexpected butler , waiting for the arrival of familiar Liz Headleand , who advanced upon him , took the roses , embraced him , restored him , and led him in to Charles , Alix and Esther : a quarter of an hour earlier she had predicted the time of his arrival accurately , to the minute , and now smiled triumphantly as she effected the introductions , a smile of complicity in which Joseph O'Toole , who was acutely aware of his own punctuality problem , was able with a pleasant relief to share . |
| 5 | All of it eating away at the spiritual fabric of existence for thousands upon thousands of years . |
| 6 | The old certainties that ruled computer industry analysis over the past 30 years are tumbling like autumn leaves , and commercial realities are now eating away at the traditional determination of Japanese companies to forget the bottom line and stick with major product sectors for the long term : Sony Corp says it is considering pulling out of Japan 's competitive word processor market to save the cost of developing and manufacturing new models , Reuter reports from Tokyo ; Sony began making word processors in 1985 and production reached a peak of 10,000 a month ; NEC Corp , Toshiba Corp , Fujitsu Ltd and Sharp Corp now dominate the market and Sony currently makes just 500 of the things a month , a drop in the 1992 market ocean of 2.6m machines . |
| 7 | And by the evening editions every hack in town will be sawing away at the other end . ’ |
| 8 | The typhoon shelters at Aberdeen and Mong Kok start to fill with craft , their prudent masters and owners looking uneasily at the eastern sky as it blackens and darkens , and as the wind begins to sing in the telephone wires , the unsecured edges of roofs begin to flap and creak , and the streets are busy with flying litter , and dust . |
| 9 | ‘ There is no dance house in London which is big enough for what we want to do , ’ she said , looking admiringly at the spacious stage area being laid out to the rear of the former Empire Theatre . |
| 10 | While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years . |
| 11 | The important point to note as a summary here , is that the algorithms suggested for solving 30 out of 36 errors , would find the correct ( i.e. intended ) word by looking only at the top ranked candidate string , which neatly solves the problem described earlier of what to choose as a starting point for possible error correction , and avoids the potentially explosive situations . |
| 12 | Hazel and Fiver remained in the ditch , nibbling half-heartedly at the dark grass . |
| 13 | Emily turned and walked up the wide staircase , looking painfully at the bare walls where paintings of her ancestors had hung for generations . |
| 14 | I 'm looking outside at the lovely trees changing the colour . |
| 15 | He lay in bed , looking calmly at the white ceiling . |
| 16 | One of the earliest documented encounters took place in AD 109 when a dolphin befriended a boy swimming offshore at the Roman settlement of Hippo in northern Africa , and thereafter returned day after day to play with other children , who slowly overcame their initial fear . |
| 17 | Instead of looking carefully at the specific conditions in which particular women live , we are frequently tempted to appeal to some common denominator of female experience ( domesticity and motherhood are the commonest choices ) that is false to the facts of many women 's experience and — to the degree that we wish to eliminate such common denominators — politically counterproductive as well . |
| 18 | Papers are not necessarily priced according to their surfaces , Rough , Not or HP and it is worth looking carefully at the various makes and their qualities , as two papers may have similar characteristics but be quite different in price . |
| 19 | Reaching the shed , I stepped over several mounds of brick and other rubble and went inside , looking carefully at the wet streaked brick walls searching for anything that could be identifiable with the depot . |
| 20 | But auditors will be looking carefully at the precise wording of the legislation and of the related guidance . |
| 21 | She was so proud of herself for getting that out , grinning wildly at the other woman , that Ruth could n't subject her to more and left them for the tennis courts while they unpacked the dusty Seat that seemed to be packed to the gunnels with baskets of clothes and packages . |
| 22 | Looking intermittently at the so-called colonial art of Latin America in churches , museums , private collections and books , I became magnetised by the figures of angels . |
| 23 | The board flickered for a second or two , then slowly faded until it was gone , and Quiss was left sitting looking angrily at the small wooden table . |
| 24 | ‘ Was it terrible ? ’ he asked , looking questioningly at the empty chair , as if asking their permission to sit down . |
| 25 | At 2.10 am , he climbed on to the disc jockey 's console and tried to grab the mike , shouting wildly at the swirling crowd below him . |
| 26 | Looking now at the actual differences in digestion between the different predator species , they can be divided into a number of categories as was done for the molars . |
| 27 | ‘ That will put your mother to a great deal of expense , ’ said Lessing , looking severely at the young man over his spectacles . |
| 28 | But looking purely at the outside bit , If they 'd have had some whitewash on I think they 'd have looked better . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , well , I do n't know why anybody should have planted trees just here , ’ said Chris Growcott , looking disparagingly at the weedy wood nearby . |
| 30 | She nodded then turned away , looking across at the ancient pomegranate trees , flicking her fan open as she did so . |