Example sentences of "of [v-ing] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , from a letter of 1867 : " most philologists lack that elevating total view of antiquity , because they stand too close to the picture and investigate a patch of paint , instead of gazing at the big , bold brushstrokes of the whole painting and — what 's more — enjoying them … " ; and " … our whole mode of working is quite horrible . |
| 2 | In the garden of the Adam and Eve , Theodora drank sherry and gave herself the pleasure of gazing at the spire of the cathedral . |
| 3 | In 1952 he became a professor of singing at the Guildhall School of Music before retiring to Fife in 1964 , where he continued to teach for many years . |
| 4 | In 1894 he became teacher of singing at the Royal Academy of Music , and many famous singers were his pupils . |
| 5 | Following her sister 's death in early infancy , her parents ' divorce when she was three years old , and her mother 's remarriage , Marguerite was brought up at the Earls Court residence of her mother and her mother 's third husband , Albert Visetti , a professor of singing at the Royal College of Music in London . |
| 6 | Over the years he has played league cricket and county cricket for Sussex and Glamorgan with resounding success , and on his last trip to England thrilled the crowd with a magnificent display of strokemaking at the Oval , scoring 260 as Pakistan ran up the imposing total of 708 . |
| 7 | If there is no wool available to them , cats with an urge to re-create the pleasures of sucking at the maternal nipple have been known to suck their own fur , sometimes their feet and sometimes the tips of their tails ; or they occasionally develop a fixation on their owner 's hair and make repeated attempts to suck on that , if they are given half a chance . |
| 8 | Then , instead of shaping at the extreme neck edge , or within a few stitches of a fully fashioned neck shaping , work the cable pattern , with two or so stitches between it and the neck edge and work the neck shaping within the cable pattern and the remaining stocking stitch of the shoulder edge . |
| 9 | Do n't try to follow both sets of shaping at the same time because it wo n't work and you will find yourself becoming totally confused . |
| 10 | Swing low , sweet Chariot is left unaccompanied , but that involves a disturbing oddity of pitching at the start . |
| 11 | Yes , well obviously we erm we hope that we 've put the team together that 's going to do the job , but having said that , there 's some handy looking teams around , I think the League is going to be pretty evened out erm at the end of the day , I do n't think erm you 're going to see too many people sort of struggling at the bottom end . |
| 12 | PEG ( to Abberley ) : Are you frightened of dying at the moment ? |
| 13 | Nonetheless Count Christoph Douglas , head of Sotheby 's in Germany , declared that he has ‘ complete confidence in Berlin ’ as a location and with the level and amount of bidding at the sale , some of it keenly fought and much of it this time conducted by telephone . |
| 14 | Shares in Pentos fell by an alarming 20% last week after the group issued warnings that pretax profits for 1992 would be ‘ significantly below ’ market expectations and that its final dividend would be reviewed ‘ in the light of trading at the time of the preliminary announcement in March ’ . |
| 15 | It may well appear to be somewhat deserted at first , but please do n't forget that these fish will grow quite large , and fast , so the lack of crowding at the start will help towards the fish 's comfort , a point which we must never fail to overlook . |
| 16 | But even the milkman 's timing ca n't compare with those supremos who have perfected the art of appearing at the door at the most irritating time possible — the Jehovah Witnesses . |
| 17 | PROPERTY CHAIR : A new Chair in Property Development and Asset Management is to be sponsored in the Department of Surveying at the University of Salford by the RICS North West University Trust . |
| 18 | Ah 've seen pictures of drinkin' vessels where the only way of gettin' at the liquor is through the penis , but Ah 've never seen fellatio depicted or pictures of miniatures like this … |
| 19 | ‘ When the film opened , ’ recalled Crawford 's wife , Gabrielle' , ‘ we did our usual thing of driving at the crack of dawn to the air terminal to get the early newspapers . |
| 20 | For practical reasons , fieldworkers adopted a policy in these cases of knocking at the door of the nearest house of a similar type ; since the survey was based on geographical area and housing type , this seemed a reasonable way of obtaining data from a range of addresses while conserving time and resources . |
| 21 | She was saved from answering by the sound of knocking at the door , and turned with relief to see Dane 's face light up in welcome . |
| 22 | ‘ The act is all about communications — but here 's a bad way of communicating at the outset . ’ |
| 23 | The sound of the trains and the flash of their silvery sides through the trees was part of living at the School . |
| 24 | Almost immediately , a flourishing black-market in foodstuffs sprang up which allowed those with money , influence or access to scarce goods to have a slightly better standard of living at the expense of those with none of these commodities . |
| 25 | If all had gone well the husband would have earned very large sums for a long period so that he could have maintained them at least at their standard of living at the time of his death , and made other provisions for the future . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In conclusion , Jones notes the potential value of explicit instruction on the nature of writing at the preschool level for subsequent success in school . |
| 28 | And the idea of nibbling at the perks of city employees earning ( on average ) under $10,000 a year , while millions are made on Wall Street , plays poorly on the hustings . |
| 29 | But there are other ways of looking at the question . |
| 30 | After a while Moran tired of looking at the newspapers and went outside though it was almost night . |