Example sentences of "[to-vb] [v-ing] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the nine projects benefiting from this year 's grants were Southwark , which receives £29,555 to provide floodlighting at the Orchard Sports Centre and the London Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award Scheme , which gets £25,000 . |
| 2 | Now his executors hope that the money raised by the Constable will pay off the last of his debts and enable his wife , Austrian Countess Lucy Czernin and their two children , Edward , 11 , and Charlotte , 15 , to continue living at the house . |
| 3 | Indie rock is the traditional playground of scruffy teenagers approaching college age who prefer to celebrate gazing at the stars than admit to peeking at the opposite sex . |
| 4 | We haggle over the prices and try to avoid looking at the piles of fruit and salad vegetables on every stall . |
| 5 | I was inclined to laugh until I found myself shuffling along the edge of one levada , eyes fixed to avoid looking at the drop below . |
| 6 | It would be impossible not to enjoy staying at the Venus — they 're some of our nicest apartments in Ibiza . |
| 7 | The soldier denied the barrister 's suggestion that his evidence was ‘ a nonsense and a total fabrication to justify firing at the car . ’ |
| 8 | Wednesday want Huddersfield midfielder Chris Marsden and we hear Trevor Francis is likely to quit playing at the end of the season . |
| 9 | The solution is to enjoy staring at the cat at moments when it is not staring back . |
| 10 | They drove through the night to start unloading at the Apollo the following lunchtime . |
| 11 | The hypnotist 's instruction to keep looking at the drawing pin conflicts with his suggestion that the eyes are growing tired and will soon be closing of themselves . |
| 12 | You will see we have brought forward the first meeting to 23rd September — to help you get in the mood and inspired to start teaching at the beginning of the new term . |
| 13 | Even the King had to start learning at the beginning , did n't he ? |
| 14 | ‘ We 're going to start shooting at the end of the month . ’ |
| 15 | The method of work has been to get going at the time dictated by the candidate 's first duty of the day and the time taken to get to him . |
| 16 | An important area to bear in mind when drawing up a briefing programme is the need to supply briefing at the end of the employee 's period overseas . |
| 17 | To stop pumping at the Wey springs would require more pumping at Lasham and Winchmill Hill , and there would be no permanent gain in the water table . |
| 18 | OVER the years I have learned to stop wincing at the description of someone having a drink problem . |
| 19 | They say they may have to stop working at the hospital and it ca n't survive without them . |
| 20 | The amendment which has gone up there and which I think is being circulated is our amendment which is designed to achieve spending at the government target figure . |
| 21 | Everyone is trying to cut spending at the moment , but this decision is ill-advised . |
| 22 | He gave important , but merely verbal assurances that the proceeds from it for the arts , heritage , sport and charities would not substitute other government funds for these areas and that he expected the cash to begin flowing at the end of 1994 . |