Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To understand why Jews should be bothered by Catholics praying at this site it is necessary to go back to the role played by the Catholic Church in fomenting antisemitism , the passivity of the Pope during the war while the exterminations were underway and even the suspicions caused by the reception of Austrian President Kurt Waldheim , with his dubious war record , by the present Pope , John Paul II ( from Poland ) . |
| 2 | After I got my free plaster and sticky tape to keep the cotton wool swab on I found not just a cup of tea and rich tea on offer but a wide choice of beverages and crisps and chocolate biscuits all individually wrapped — from looking at that feast you would n't believe the NHS is strapped for cash . |
| 3 | And if we have n't got a full slate well I mean looking at that list we 're doing quite well . |
| 4 | Looking at contemporary art he discerns ‘ an attempt to reinstate the object not as a tonal equation or as a decorative symbol , but as the thing itself ’ . |
| 5 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 6 | Till eventually I mean you ere doing it with these As you were going through here you were n't looking at this table you were working some of them out you were saying , Oh that 'll be a double positive that 'll be a double double negative these 'll go together . |
| 7 | Erm but if you 're dealing with issues about human relationship then they 're very very important , very powerful and er they they can make a huge difference familiarity , sensitivity in the use of this kind of can be very important Okay , we 'll come back to that cos I w when we come when we 're actually looking at improving communication we 'll come back to those issues . |
| 8 | However , in looking at social policy we must also question whether the distinction between the policy system and its environment can be easily made . |
| 9 | ‘ Because she was premature , as they were pulling at this thing I was thinking , ‘ Do n't touch … ’ , and one worries that something might go wrong , and then there 's this tremendous sense of relief , and elation and exhaustion . |
| 10 | In one year 's time I would be doing At each stage you move backwards through time and ask your unconscious mind to help you see a picture of yourself being highly successful on your way to completion of your objectives . |
| 11 | When running at full capacity it will employ 450 people , improving job prospects in Cheshire , North Wales and Merseyside . |
| 12 | France was neither oblivious of nor indifferent to the outcome of the war which she was fighting and for which , as the US kept saying , she was primarily responsible ; but to have had a chance of winning at that stage it would probably have had to be a French rather than a Vietnamese war . |
| 13 | On the basis that er if if you 've seen enough here now Lynda to be persuaded , and I hope we have , persuaded you that you 'd like to come in with us then you will be resigning at some time I guess . |