Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [art] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Advocating a greater use of the birch he said ‘ Young offenders are leaving the juvenile courts laughing at the Magistrates and the Police . |
| 2 | The mixture of cheap jokes and pretentious philosophising becomes increasingly hard to stomach , however , and there are far too many moments when it is not clear whether you are supposed to be laughing at the characters or taking them seriously . |
| 3 | The job of perceptual systems is to take these fluctuating patterns of activity occurring at the receptors and interpret them in terms of what is going on in the outside world . |
| 4 | Francis Morgan did not bother with knocking at the door but walked in without apology . |
| 5 | In a clever piece of bridgework between the two , the poet is interrupted by an old friend who comes knocking at the door and calling his name . |
| 6 | ‘ Anyway , ’ Sheila went on , ‘ it 's all happening at the universities and colleges , is n't it , Jenny ? |
| 7 | She she has to make out a form , with erm what was happening at the time and everything . |
| 8 | He was tall and thin , a leggy lightweight in a dark-grey suit , with a pleasant , long , cleanshaven face , and short hair greying at the temples and receding slightly from a weathered brown forehead . |
| 9 | Thank you Mr Mayor I just wanted t to come in with two fairly quick points er as to why I will not be able to support this amendment , but the first is that the leader of the council has indicated that the efficiency savings erm has got as far as it can go and that , you know , we have been trimming at the margins and there is no more margin left and that leads you to believe that perhaps one should be looking at somewhat more er root and branch type of pruning in the spending that that the labour group want to actually erm deal with , er and the second point I would like to make , and er I thank councillor for giving us a a a a new word tonight obfuscation because that describes exactly what I think the labour group are trying to do by bringing this figure down it removes the embarrassment they would have from having to add on a substantial sum of money f due to the failure to collect the cou er the community charge in previous years and I think that they are trying by by this amendment with some very quick foot work to try and delude the people of this city . |
| 10 | He buried himself in work , while she filled every hour of the day playing tennis or golf at the Royal Club , or discoing at the Key or the Cheminée with a group of friends . |
| 11 | Trading at the film and television services division and the video and audio production and distribution arm was generally stable . |
| 12 | Bidding at the antiques and collectors items auction had been lively and the programme was bought by a man from Chelmsford , she said . |
| 13 | For the sake of appearances , he picked up another brush and began swatting at the sleeves and lapels of his suit . |
| 14 | The RUC have now issued a description of the man who had black hair , balding at the front and sides , and was wearing glasses . |
| 15 | Lyric Fantasy is poised to return to sprinting at the weekend and has an excellent opportunity to break her duck as a three-year-old . |
| 16 | TOP referee Ray Lewis is being investigated by the Football Association for allegedly swearing at a supporter and faces disciplinary action . |
| 17 | TRANSPORT helpline clerk Bill Goulding was sacked after swearing at a caller and hurling his phone headset out of a window , an industrial tribunal heard yesterday . |
| 18 | ‘ He used to watch programmes like The Bill swearing at the police and cheering the villains . ’ |
| 19 | He 's got a , they 're all talking about me , he says they 're listening at the walls or standing in the clossies |
| 20 | First the Princess of Wales opened a new annex to Chelmsford College of Further Education … and secondly , HRH The Prince of Wales opened the exhibition ‘ A Vision of Britain' at the Victoria & Albert Museum , which was designed by David Lloyd-Jones of RMJM . |
| 21 | Shivering at the table and peering down at the paper under the stumpy candle I allowed myself to wander off the straight path through the dark trees . |
| 22 | The best known is that , where there is a gift to a class of children living at a particular date , a child en ventre sa mère at that date but later born alive will be treated as having been living at the date and thus included in the class . |
| 23 | I went back to the mother and baby home , for another almost two years , and from there that was I think I said at the beginning , how I actually was introduced to Flats , and it was actually living at the mother and baby home , doing far more work with girls |
| 24 | A year later Sharon was still living at the hostel and had managed to stay clear of drugs . |
| 25 | There was a tight thicket of new , thorny growth in the clearing , a bird darting between the branches picking at the red and blue berries that hung from the twigs . |
| 26 | I ca n't understand what he 's saying , but he 's just shouting at the lights and everything , like he 's real angry about summat . |
| 27 | Through shouting at the children and playing |
| 28 | But the following morning I awoke to the familiar sound of Chola shouting at the dogs and the dogs ' yelping response . |
| 29 | Mounted police were also in the thick of it , riding up and down , shouting at the marchers and attempting to discourage spectators from joining the demonstration . |
| 30 | FO … you acquire the … skill , with practice , of looking at a discharge and being able to say visually in many cases , that there 's things like suspended solids — that it is going to be outside consent ; it is clear to you that sample is going to be outside . |