Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adj] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His hands left her shoulders abruptly , his expression becoming suddenly shocked at the realisation of his actions . |
| 2 | Neatly line all the hollowed out windows with fondant , pressing in and trimming away excess at the edges . |
| 3 | Moreover , he was becoming increasingly annoyed at the Communists ' blatant attempts to maximize their influence wherever it mattered — in , for example , the army and the administration — and to dictate strategy . |
| 4 | ONE OF FIVE children who father , a bookie , died young , Lenny McLean grew up in one of the tougher parts of London 's East End , left school at fifteen and , as a young man , started to make a few quid in the unlicensed boxing matches which were becoming increasingly popular at the time . |
| 5 | He was holding the animal 's head up by its antlers and looking shyly pleased at the camera . |
| 6 | For you as writer , this entails looking so hard at the world you write about that you begin to feel the minute , imperceptible movements within it and learn to give them their most appropriate names . |
| 7 | With Quakers looking decidedly shaky at the back , Torquay almost sneaked another when Paul Hall ran clean through but Prudhoe blocked with his knees , then defender Matthew Elliott stole up unmarked to volley just wide from a Loram corner . |
| 8 | A spokeswoman said : ‘ Things are looking really good at the moment with plenty of entries flooding in . |
| 9 | New Years day is looking VERY important at the mo' though ! |
| 10 | But I was very much in love with Isobel and that prevented my from looking too hard at the mess I had created . |
| 11 | There is , however , a sharp decline to only 4 per cent remaining economically active at the age of 65 or over ( OPCS , 1990 , p. 202 ) . |
| 12 | the car 's sounding pretty ropy at the minute , needs a new exhaust . |
| 13 | I do n't think Zbigniew 's marriage to Tatyana was going too swell at the time . |
| 14 | I 'm a very careful driver but I will admit I do n't like men getting away first at the lights |
| 15 | Not only was it getting cold and windy , but it was getting very busy at the top of Beinn Ghlas . |
| 16 | Although Edinburgh , for whom captain and scrum-half Johnnie Crombie had an outstanding game , were losing only 7-0 at the interval , they were swamped in the second half as Durham ran in five tries and kicked four conversions and a penalty . |
| 17 | ‘ You should have whipped off the trousers and said the jacket was a mini-dress , ’ said literary agent Felicity Bryan , who remembers doing just that at the Tory Carlton Club 20 years ago . |
| 18 | And it 's asking too much at the moment . |
| 19 | A more effective approach , however , would simply divide the morning up into small time zones with the reward for playing nicely available at the end of each . |
| 20 | Obviously it is likely to be quiet in an empty hall or in a field ; it is likely to be noisy when a crowd of people are talking together all at the same time . |
| 21 | Of course people are talking pretty big at the moment but half of them are as ready to drop as I am . ’ |
| 22 | He even wears checked trousers and a natty sports jacket , as he describes to his son Art how , in 1944 , he survived 10 months in Auschwitz , dodging from one hair's-breadth escape to the next , outwitting his enemies by the skin of his teeth , emerging miraculously intact at the end of each cliff-hanging episode of this astounding strip cartoon . |
| 23 | Two old girls were sitting very close at the front . |
| 24 | I mean tha , is it all , you know , do we need all the time to have erm extra administrative help and in in , and in terms of which we 've been talking about before , I know they might sound like two conflicting issues but one of the ways of ensuring we get the work done is do we trying too much at the Synod ? |
| 25 | She was feeling rather sick at the thought of drowning in the creeping , sucking mess . |
| 26 | A moment later the two of them had disappeared into the house , leaving me standing there in the sunshine , feeling suddenly weak at the knees . |
| 27 | It 's so beautiful it 's sort of scary — you know , feeling so excited at the lights . |
| 28 | ‘ Maybe we could light a fire , ’ she suggested , looking briefly up at him , and feeling somewhat disconcerted at the way those eyes were resting on her . |
| 29 | ‘ Thank you very much , ’ she said , feeling disproportionately pleased at the compliment . |
| 30 | Feeling decidedly uncomfortable at the older woman 's frosty manner , Rachel reluctantly followed her into the sitting-room hoping that David was n't going to be long . |