Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were appearing together at a literary lunch in Cleethorpes — he was promoting the latest edition of his diaries — and someone was playing the organ whilst we were eating . |
| 2 | ‘ did loiter ( or solicit ) ’ Loiter means passing frequently at a slow speed ( Williamson v Wright 1924 SLT 363 ) . |
| 3 | There I stood in the fruit shop gazing longingly at a mouth-watering display of peaches . |
| 4 | erm and the North Koreans were going backwards at a vast rate of knots and in came the Chinese the Chinese army , it stood at that time I think at twenty five million men erm and , and Douglas started losing again , sad really is n't it ? |
| 5 | The two judgment tasks were practised twice on the roads preceding the actual test route , once when turning left at a large roundabout and once when turning right at an unsignalized T-junction . |
| 6 | ‘ They will have their tails up and I do n't think we could be going there at a harder time . |
| 7 | You can find me through the Friends , ’ and he pressed his horse 's flanks , moving away at a steady pace . |
| 8 | He was speaking today at a Tory Reform Group fringe meeting in Bournemouth . |
| 9 | It starts at zero and eventually the galaxies are moving apart at a steady speed . |
| 10 | On Easter Sunday and Monday April 19th and 20th , farm shops and food and drink producers from southern England are coming together at a traditional food fair at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum , Singleton , near Chichester , to show how local produce can be bought on a regional basis . |
| 11 | The investigator is not at this point investigating how the child learns to program the computer although he shall be doing so at a later date . |
| 12 | Thus , even though the 12 member states are following the same rules , they are doing so at a different pace , which further complicates an already complex situation . ’ |
| 13 | Tom Bull-Dwyer 's middle managers stared unhappily out through the forest of tangled masts at the Needles , which seemed to be travelling past at a brisk walking pace . |
| 14 | Then , while the pirates and Famlio were staring piercingly at a new contingent of roisterers coming in , I decided to move . |
| 15 | Benny was staring intently at a large worm wriggling on the pile of damp earth . |
| 16 | Britta stood apart , staring unseeingly at a three-dimensional display of the space station . |
| 17 | Twenty minutes later , wearing her grey flannel trousers and mole-coloured jersey and with her hair casually tied back in a velvet ribbon , Julia walked into the salon , only to be brought up short by the sight of David staring blankly at a yellow form in his right hand , a tumbler of whisky ignored and tilting in his left . |
| 18 | Outside this one there is a lone snow bunting pecking mournfully at a muddy patch of shingle that is all that shows through the snow . |
| 19 | Sometimes , when accused of eccentricity or indeed perversity of vision , she would claim that all knowledge must always be omnipresent in all things , and that one could startle oneself into seeing the whole by tweaking unexpectedly at a surprised comer of the great mantle . |
| 20 | She tried not to imagine his sympathetic brown eyes looking into hers , and his disarming smile when she spoke to him , perhaps their hands touching as she passed him the local anaesthetic — This is no use ! she admonished herself , rubbing energetically at a stainless steel trolley . |
| 21 | Mr Blunkett said Mr Sackville , who is responsible for the capital 's ambulance service , wrote to the Labour MP Glenda Jackson on October 21 last year , claiming the CAD system was functioning correctly at a technical level . |
| 22 | Walking through her kitchen and cutting gardens at break-neck speed , marvelling at the weedless beds , and pyramids of purple clematis , the imposing topiary ( ‘ Russell [ Page ] used to tell me , ‘ Let them get fluffy and fabulous ’ ’ ) , Mrs Guest is in full flood : ‘ Oh , those chipmunks are wrecking my garden , ’ she declares , straightening a single toppled plant in an acreage of formidable order , and tugging nimbly at a lone weed . |
| 23 | Similarly , there is no point in heaving away at a recalcitrant waste pipe if you intend to replace it , so you may as well cut through it a short distance from the wall with a hacksaw . |
| 24 | There was only a man in tattered blue dungarees hammering busily at a makeshift crush at the exit to the fold yard . |
| 25 | ‘ To be honest , I 'm more concerned about getting a good night 's sleep , ’ says a pregnant woman , who 's working full-time at a demanding job . |
| 26 | William Day had been working late at a nearby farm . |