Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did the train travel fast , it spread fast and soon the world was opening up at a pace not previously imagined . |
| 2 | For some unexplained reason you were still lurking about at a time when , normally , you would long since have gone home . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Removal of water through artesian wells is held to be the reason why the tower began going off at an angle soon after building work began in 1174 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She got up and walked around nervously , fetching up at a cabinet with a heavy silver box on top . |
| 13 | The inexperienced , particularly , can not face selling out at a loss . |
| 14 | It is a replacement , we were losing that money erm because the , the water meter was going round at a pound an hour . |
| 15 | God how she hated them , the middle classes , penny-pinching , doling out their little bits , in their minds always the thought of saving and accumulating , saving — thought Alice , her mouth full of bile , as she stood gazing up at a beam a foot across that looked grey and flaky , with whitey-yellow fibres in it — the dry rot itself , which would lay its creeping arms over all the wood , if it were allowed , then creep down the walls , into the floor below , spread like a disease … |
| 16 | If you watch the start or the first few miles , you 'll see a mass of humanity moving along at a snail 's pace . |
| 17 | The sole observation is indirect ; the orbital period of the binary pulsar 1913 + 16 is measured to be slowing down at a rate which agrees well with that expected if the system is emitting gravitational radiation . |
| 18 | Emily , as a special treat , was staying over at a school-friend 's . |
| 19 | It remained for a moment , a definite form , before moving off at a half-crouched , shambling run to hide behind one of the gravestones . |
| 20 | Where the line of stones breaks , lines of energy could be detected moving off at a tangent . |
| 21 | Speaking up at a meeting |
| 22 | We continue drinking , gazing out at a sea now almost as redundant as five o'clock tea or straw boaters , both commonplace back in the 1950s when the children in Lord of the Flies became violent in the midst of their paradisical island , at precisely this magical hour of five o'clock , and in the living room , that sweetly British interior , flowering the semi-darkness into a plethora of chair covers and curtains , sprigged bone china and mums in Liberty-print dresses … |
| 23 | A service done out of friendship such as helping out at a barbecue or because of a threat is not within s.1 . |
| 24 | A long , thin brunette sat on another bean-bag very close to her , staring down at a focus somewhere near the edge of the blonde 's left thigh . |
| 25 | They 've seen language labs , which are great , more or less mould away for lack of resources to keep them in working order , and they see micros coming in at a time when everything else is being cut . |
| 26 | Erm I think it 's also now pretty much common ground that the capacity of York city is around three thousand three hundred , but I think in in in taking an view on that , and in taking any view o on future windfalls , it is necessary for the panel to keep in mind that historically in the nineteen eighties windfalls were coming through at a time when it was not a adopted local plan for the city of York , so to some extent anything by definition of a substantial size was likely to be a windfall , erm , but also more to the point than that definitional point , I would expect to see , and I think what Mr Curtis has said earlier on that the local plan is likely to tighten up on criteria for release of sites , both small and large , he referred to the shortage of open space , and I would expect to see a policy change in short , a policy climate change , within the city of York that would constrain past historical rates of windfall release . |
| 27 | I came to jammed into the corner of the work room , squatting , fists clenched , staring up at a ribbon of orange light across the ceiling and a stack of timber beside me . |
| 28 | If only people were the same , Harriet Shakespeare would not be staring up at a house where terrorists were holding her son . |
| 29 | But a day had come in the Sixties when he was in one of the elephant houses and was staring up at an elephant as it walked neurotically round and round its tiny area when a sudden memory of some of the places he had been kept in during the war had come to him ; no space , no freedom , no life . |
| 30 | The coroner suddenly reined in his horse , staring back at a group of dark figures who had just slipped by . |