Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'll make a hypothetical traverse from Easter Island on the East Pacific Rise ( an oceanic ridge , remember ) right across South America as far as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge , so we 'll be starting at one plate margin , crossing a second and ending up at a third , each of them , of course , marked by a major belt of seismic activity [ see Fig. 2 ] . |
| 2 | On the relief the girl Athena , without aegis or shield ( she is shown now even without helmet , or with it in her hand ) leans on her spear , hand on hip , looking down at a small stele . |
| 3 | It was only when I was actually up there and the music had stopped , and I found myself looking down at a hundred or so expectant faces , that I remembered the magnitude of the task in front of me . |
| 4 | The arrow tip came free and I lay on my side in frightful suffering weakness , looking down at a sharp black point sticking out from scarlet wool . |
| 5 | Another few totters and another series of hasty hoppity-skips , and they were looking down at a ramshackle wooden building which sat in a hollow among yellow bushes of gorse . |
| 6 | They had their own windows with dark blue oil-cloth roller-blinds through which Dot could see into the compartment of the train alongside just like looking over at a next-door house . |
| 7 | She stood outside looking up at a creamy moon , fearful lest some bat might fly into her hair . |
| 8 | We soon realise that we are , effectively , looking up at a red ceiling , where the four walls of the room , seen in perspective below , are all decorated with a brace of fishermen . |
| 9 | There were further rattles of machine-gun fire and Rex found himself looking up at a troubled sky . |
| 10 | Chris was looking back at a colourful four-wheeled cart drawn by two tasselled horses . |
| 11 | These molecules , the ultimate source of information about what is going on at a specific time in a particular cell , are extremely labile chemically ( for example , to traces of alkaline detergent in less than scrupulously clean glassware ) and enzymatically ( to the ubiquitous ribonuclease ) . |
| 12 | Still hurrying along at a hundred miles an hour he leaned over towards me and lowered his voice . |
| 13 | On the main highway leading to Charleroi and Brussels the Dragoons were clattering along at a fine pace , almost as if this was an exercise in Provence instead of war . |
| 14 | In both programmes , spectators happen to be present , peering in at a comic version of the star 's life . |
| 15 | It is our intention to keep goods turning over at a livelier pace and it would therefore be appreciated if you would return any goods which you are unable to sell . |
| 16 | ‘ It hardly shows , ’ said Cadfael thoughtfully , going off at a surprising tangent . |
| 17 | You 're talking about er three thirty mil going out at a premium price , erm your one litre at an economy price and your two litre back at a premium price . |
| 18 | Mr Michael Poynor , the adjudicator , commended director Harry Foy for an energetic production which kept the action moving along at a fast pace . |
| 19 | Her call came after the surrender of the last group of rebels holding out at a military air base at Mactan in the central Philippines . |
| 20 | He began hanging out at a seedy bar where transvestites , gay guys in leather jackets , and even butch lesbians , would lay him across a table and then crawl all over him . |
| 21 | Through the wide forward unopening windows there was a riveting view of the rails stretching ahead , signals shining green in the distance , trees flashing back at a useful seventy miles an hour . |
| 22 | His leg looks like it 's broke — it 's sticking out at a funny angle . |
| 23 | Meanwhile behind him John Thorne was desperately trying to provide some company , for Spartan Missile was running on at a tremendous rate . |
| 24 | They had sat opposite each other in a compartment crowded with Able Seamen , he watching the darkening fields flying outside the window and Bunny staring down at a single sheet of notepaper , pale blue in colour , which he held on his jigging knee and from whose fold poked a sprig of crab apple in bloom . |
| 25 | Reaction to their two recently-rescued Sam Powell ales , formerly brewed by the Sam Powell Brewery in Newtown , Powys , is also very encouraging , with repeat orders coming in at a good rate . |
| 26 | Eva was coming in at a high spot of the Army 's history . |
| 27 | OS/2 will get 8.5% of the total workstation market by 1996 , it says , with Unix coming in at a hefty 47% and Windows NT possibly capturing 30–40% of the office desktop/workstation market . |
| 28 | of 1826 coming in at a deserved third in the field . |
| 29 | Less than 36 hours after the discovery of the body , facts were coming in at a fair rate , though it was still not possible to decide which were relevant and which not . |
| 30 | The road was deserted and we were throbbing along at a moderate pace when suddenly the engine sputtered and stopped . |