Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [art] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too many little things are happening at the one time . |
| 2 | The Westminster Press cost budget is now adjusted and they 're currently trading at a nine percent margin which would be ten percent if it was n't for the er , expenditure on er , Yorkshire on Sunday er , the circulation of which is growing very nicely . |
| 3 | Shouting at the two children talking when they should n't during assembly rather than praising the other two hundred for sitting quietly is typical of a pre-occupation with failure . |
| 4 | generally you 're looking at an eighteen month 's sales period |
| 5 | He led her into the room and , looking at the four musicians , he said , ‘ This is Peggy , my sparring partner ever since we both crawled on the lawn together . |
| 6 | Then she saw how he was staring at her habit , and looking at the two grooms . |
| 7 | I spent the rest of the evening pretending riveted attention on the discussion while all the time practising ways of looking at the two women without them catching me . |
| 8 | Looking at the two men he completed the introduction . |
| 9 | He was looking at the two Apaches . |
| 10 | I stand in the doorway of the front room , looking at the two bundles against the far wall . |
| 11 | But having said that of course , Brackley , they have nothing to lose ; looking at the two sides , the majority of the players would you believe it are ex of Banbury United a side , you can never keep out of the news Jane . |
| 12 | Before looking at the two conferences under consideration , it is useful to construct an outline income and expenditure account , which might look something like |
| 13 | As we increase our confidence , right , so if we are ninety five percent confident we are now looking at the five percent significance level T rat er the critical value rate rises to two point zero point two and if you want to be even more confident , to be ninety nine percent confident about our inference , you look at the one percent level , right , and that has a T ratio of two point seven five . |
| 14 | ‘ And who are these ? ’ said the Queen , looking at the three gardeners . |
| 15 | You prefer well packaged routine holidays in popular tourism destinations and you 're looking at the three Ss or four Ss we should say . |
| 16 | The Commission helps to create around five thousand new jobs a year.And all the small firms exhibiting at the Three Counties are hoping the orders will keep flowing in . |
| 17 | Then is sometimes claimed to be necessarily anaphoric in nature , and to have no gestural deictic usage , but rather complex usages show this is not so — consider , for example , the following said pointing at a 1962 model Chevrolet ( Nunberg , 1978 : 33 ) ) : ( 55 ) I was just a kid then As an initial step towards seeing how time deixis interacts with cultural measurements of time in an absolute or non-deictic way , consider words like today , tomorrow , yesterday . |
| 18 | Pointing at the three musclemen positioned outside his HQ 's entrance , he added : ‘ We 'd be stupid not to have these guys around at the moment . ’ |
| 19 | Someone calling at The Two Pheasants , I suppose , or at the Shoosmiths . ’ |
| 20 | Speaking at a one day conference at the University of Sheffield on ways forward in the training of solicitors , Mr Hayes urged the Government and the profession to seek urgently new ways of funding the training of young solicitors . |
| 21 | Speaking at the 1989 BEMAS Annual Conference , Martin Davies , Director of NCC , referred back to the early gloom and outrage , but then went on to say : ‘ What is remarkable is how little dissent and how little opposition there is now the overwhelming majority have accepted the idea of a National Curriculum . ’ |
| 22 | The City Engineer of Birmingham , H.J. Manzoni , speaking at the 1941 Conference of the Town and Country Planning Association ( under its new name , the ‘ Garden City ’ appellation having been discarded ) described the problems of large-scale redevelopment under existing legislation . |
| 23 | This helps to structure the content of its programmes as well as its public image , and until the mid-1980s , Radio I was aiming at the 16–25 age group . |
| 24 | He rubbed his eyes as he stood there , staring at the two strangers . |
| 25 | After staring at the two chaps with ‘ you 'll do for a light snack ’ eyes , the lion started to wander towards them . |
| 26 | She wore a great deal of make-up at all times , but that day , perhaps just as primitive man might have painted his face as a protection , she was garnished with particularly bright eye colours and lipstick , so that it was a little garish mask staring at the two policemen . |
| 27 | By now the card games were forgotten , everyone staring at the two men . |
| 28 | He was staring at the two men at the nearby table . |
| 29 | He stopped in the centre of the room , staring at the two men . |
| 30 | He moved slowly round the perimeter staring at the seven disciples who had so far survived the ungodly war . |