Example sentences of "at [art] [noun sg] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he persevered and now has three assistants from the students at the university helping him . |
| 2 | He joined the Chinese Society at the University having been ‘ knocked out ’ by seeing Antonioni 's cult film ‘ Shanghai ’ . |
| 3 | For example , by ensuring that the monopolist produces Q at the price corresponding to average cost at this output , the social cost of the dead-weight burden can be reduced from AEE ' ; to GHE ' ; . |
| 4 | This is an early 60's look at the dump showing Robinson 2–8–0 's and Directors . |
| 5 | The initial height of each mussel and the height in subsequent years were measured exactly perpendicular to the shell hinge at the umbo using a digital caliper ( ±0.01 mm ) . |
| 6 | You look at the jury sitting there politely attentive , like children on their best behaviour because they 're visitors in an alien country and do n't want to make fools of themselves or offend the natives . |
| 7 | He had accomplished nothing and he may well have meditated on the difference between his situation and that of his uncle at the Erfurt meeting with the German Princes in 1808 . |
| 8 | Sometimes I 'd get up and go down and sit with her , look up at the Moon shining through the glass and think , at least I 'm out of that . |
| 9 | She reached for a tissue to dab at the moisture welling in her eyes . |
| 10 | Mr Leslie Draper , her solicitor , said : ‘ She was appalled at the hardship following atrocities in Northern Ireland and was not convinced enough was being done for the people left behind . |
| 11 | Yes er I remember a chap at the depot doing the Spanish Civil War er wh th there was a movement going round collecting food for the , or money for food for the children of Spain . |
| 12 | Each laugh , observes Howard , looking chiefly at the laughter emerging from himself , is rounded and polished , as if cast in weathered bronze . |
| 13 | Philip looked sideways at the girl sitting next to him . |
| 14 | She knew without being told that Ana was walking in her sleep and she was filled with horror at the girl walking through the gate and beyond , perhaps waking late and not knowing where she was , unable to see . |
| 15 | She glanced at the girl standing eagerly in front of her . |
| 16 | He twisted himself to his feet and looked in amazement at the girl standing above him . |
| 17 | She glanced up at the girl standing before her and shook her head . |
| 18 | He looked sideways at the girl stirring the pot . |
| 19 | resulted in the controllers making … a puritan attack directed at the drug taking of the ( underground ) movement ; and since the drug-scene is complex and confused , and we have little time in which to develop a reliable folk-lore about drugs and how to take them ( as we have long ago done about alcohol ) , they have been particularly successful in fostering anxiety among teachers , parents and establishment figures . |
| 20 | I find it easier to get angry at the stuff happening around me these days because I 'm no longer naive enough to think it 'll simply sort itself out . |
| 21 | We look at the EC 's agenda now ; at the recession hampering closer union ; at the problems faced by one country ( Norway ) that wants to join the EC and at a challenge to the treaty in Germany 's constitutional court |
| 22 | It has been proposed that DNA supercoiling would act to change the DNA structure at the promoter facilitating or inhibiting the formation of a stable RNA polymerase-promoter complex , in which the initiation region is melted , and that can proceed to the promoter clearance step ( 25 ) . |
| 23 | Models of them are also used at the circus marking the finish of each lap , just as eggs indicated the start . |
| 24 | As she flopped down in a corner seat , Constance looked at the man pushing her case on to the rack opposite . |
| 25 | Graham laughed to himself , then had to break his stride as a long-haired biker in dirty denims bumped a large Moto Guzzi across the pavement in front of him and into the courtyard entrance of the buildings called Rosebery Square , Graham looked darkly at the man pushing the bike , then shook his head , telling himself not to be so stupid . |
| 26 | Turning her head sideways , Laura gazed at the man reclining in his seat beside her . |
| 27 | Wa looked at the man leaning back in his chair , his black-clad frame resting as nonchalantly as a Rimland puma on a jungle branch , and decided that Gorrin atop Small Gods temple would soon be joining those little deities in the multifold dimensions of Beyond . |
| 28 | What are you doing here ? " he asked , but before Patrick could reply , he glanced at the man holding him . |
| 29 | We began filming with Richard Phillips on the sidelines ( by which I mean on the floor , through the windows , in the lounge and peering at the man peering through the lens ) , Nigel ( Grubby ) Foster and Michael Hall representing J Walter Thompson , the Agency . |
| 30 | Bellybutton gave one last look at the man walking along the dock , then shoved Starkisser 's tachometers way into their red zones so that the dark blue powerboat stood on her tail and screamed out to sea as though the devil himself was on her tail . |