Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the rear of the idol , seven round indents are formed beginning at the base of the spine and extending to the head . |
| 2 | as if my whole life , he wrote , had been spent working at the glass and at the same time had been spent doing nothing at all . |
| 3 | Six months are spent studying at an Institut Universitaire de Technologie specializing in Marketing , Management/Personnel or Computing , and this is followed by a 3-month integrated work placement . |
| 4 | In vertebrates , shortly after gastrulation , the brain can be seen forming at the anterior end of the embryo . |
| 5 | They just want to be seen calling at the house . ’ |
| 6 | They could be seen flinching at the hammering of fists against the sides of the buses . |
| 7 | When a big shoal is feeding dozens of bream can be seen rolling at the same time , all facing the same way . |
| 8 | Some of these engines ran for well over a century before being discarded , and particularly fine and huge specimens can be found operating at the Kew steam engine museum . |
| 9 | He did not like to be kept waiting at a locked gate . |
| 10 | I can remember several policemen being reported missing at the police station where they were on duty . |
| 11 | This was out of 329 volumes which were left after 150 titles were reported missing at the time of the 1865 review . |
| 12 | It 's claimed as the hangar burned the two men were seen pointing at the flames and laughing . |
| 13 | His formative years were spent living at a small terraced house in , a house which still remains in use today . |
| 14 | THE Dallas Cowboys were left raging at a refereeing decision which could eventually cost them a place in the Super Bowl . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's Fergie , ’ someone said , and within seconds Charles and Diana were left staring at an empty patch of snow where a moment before dozens of photographers had been elbowing one another for the best position . |
| 16 | ‘ The joy was therefore extreme ’ wrote Scott later , ‘ when , the ponderous lid of the chest being forced open , the regalia were discovered lying at the bottom covered with linen cloths , exactly as they had been left . ’ |
| 17 | Occasionally athletes are kept waiting at the start for a minute or so until television is ready . |
| 18 | The spotted eagle owl is usually more an inhabitant of open country than is the Verreaux eagle owl , but it has been recorded nesting at the bottom of a 9 m shaft in a cave , well into the twilight zone ( Brain , 1981 ) . |
| 19 | The end of the coding region is indicated by a U. Translation is shown initiating at the first methionine at nucleotide 76 . |
| 20 | Some times a whole period is spent looking at a ladybird . |
| 21 | She was found wandering at a golf course , near Stockport , Cheshire , on Monday . |
| 22 | Jim Eggleton , who was seventy , was found lying at the foot of the stairs of his council home in Russells Water , near Nettlebed … |
| 23 | And most of that 14 days was spent travelling at the foot of the mountains . |
| 24 | Graham was left frowning at the door , wondering exactly what she meant . |
| 25 | Maggie was left staring at a closed door , lost for words . |
| 26 | The middle section parted company next , landing neatly between two branches , and Mother was left staring at the tip section , contemplating disaster . |
| 27 | He rolled over , and she was left staring at the daunting stretch of his broad back . |
| 28 | But one was left wondering at the decision to commit time , money and talent to this dingy piece of hokum . |
| 29 | JOHN Dunlop was left marvelling at the difference a day makes when Eurolink Thunder and Captain Horatius doubled up for him at Kempton yesterday . |