Example sentences of "[v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also in April 1990 , six Sri Lankan Tamils were prevented by Egyptair staff from disembarking at Heathrow : in August 1990 , four Eritreans were prevented from leaving a Czechoslovak Airlines plane . |
| 2 | The state does not spare even essential services ; it is disconcerting for the Western traveller disembarking at Otopeni international airport to see technicians servicing a Tupolev by torchlight . |
| 3 | Transport facilities in Ayrshire were almost non-existent and many passengers disembarking at Ardrossan had to walk to their destinations . |
| 4 | Disembarking at certain points from a leisurely cruise , your guide , Bernie Dunn , arguably the best guide in Amsterdam will take you through Amsterdam 's most enchanting neighbourhoods by foot . |
| 5 | Our friend the Reverend G. M. Musgrave , disembarking at Boulogne a dozen years earlier , was much impressed by the French system : ‘ The contrivances for receiving , weighing , marking and paying for luggage were simple and excellent . |
| 6 | The next plane was smaller still , which gave her a qualm or two , but the journey was correspondingly shorter , and in next to no time she was disembarking at Grand Cayman 's airport . |
| 7 | Its author , Roger Sedjo , argues that new temperate forests are absorbing at least 700 million tonnes a year , compared to the 1,000 million tonnes released annually as a result of tropical forest loss . |
| 8 | It is like eavesdropping at a match , though such ‘ alternative ’ humour is very rare . |
| 9 | FOLLOWERS of Clive Brittain are once again marvelling at bookmakers ' largesse over their assessment of tomorrow 's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe . |
| 10 | The approach allows researchers to see how the diversity — still large and exciting — came to be , rather than simply marvelling at it . |
| 11 | They could often be seen leaning on farm-yard gates , chewing on straws and marvelling at Noddy 's turn of speed as he roared by in the slipstream of anything from a milk marketing board tanker to a Maserati ! |
| 12 | I remember Geoff telling me this , tears streaming down his face , marvelling at how it was his children who had the strength to carry on , and that it was they who had this practical , yet profound way of reaching to the heart of the matter . |
| 13 | This translates as ‘ Why are you marvelling at this exceptional house . |
| 14 | On evening walks down Loreto , a lane of high stone walls , trying to decide on a restaurant , I would stop and run my hands over the ashlars , marvelling at the purity of each one as I have marvelled at the completeness of a sculpture by Brancusi ; each of them so tightly locked together that I found it impossible to fit a fingernail between them . |
| 15 | Mr Charles remembered marvelling at how my father showed not one hint of discomfort or anger , but continued to drive with an expression balanced perfectly between personal dignity and readiness to oblige . |
| 16 | And higher still we ascended , by thinking inwardly and speaking and marvelling at your works , and we came to our minds and transcended them to reach that region of unfailing abundance where you feed Israel forever on the food of truth . |
| 17 | I fell madly in love with this area of Scotland the first time I set eyes on it , and subsequently crawled all over it for years , marvelling at how many caves Bonnie Prince Charlie managed to occupy in his escape from the Redcoats . |
| 18 | Whilst they fished I explored the shores , haunting the hides , marvelling at the variety of bird , plant and animal life . |
| 19 | Most of them had visited the invalid often during the past few months , marvelling at his gallant spirit and his unfailing good temper . |
| 20 | ‘ But I think he was quite rational last night , ’ said Breeze , marvelling at her own coolness . |
| 21 | But Hārkini just touched it gently all over , marvelling at the tiny , perfect form . |
| 22 | ‘ No , ’ she said carefully , marvelling at how the steam conducted the sound . |
| 23 | She still retained her English habit of noting each day 's weather , always expecting changes , marvelling at the hot sunny days which followed one after the other , almost with monotony . |
| 24 | Harriet walked home wondering why she had not organised something of this sort before and marvelling at Mrs Rafferty 's complete acceptance of her own role in the community , one in which she obviously took it for granted that she herself had no need or right to ‘ a bit of a break ’ . |
| 25 | He would look at Harry , the picture of health and happiness and , while marvelling at his steady uncomplicated progress , suddenly think of the child 's mother , a travesty of the woman he had once known , suffering , it would seem , from chronic post-natal depression , so much so that , on Winifred Shalcross 's advice , a second specialist had been called in . |
| 26 | As tournament organisers were getting out their calculators , spectators were still marvelling at Ivanisevic 's superb performance . |
| 27 | JOHN Dunlop was left marvelling at the difference a day makes when Eurolink Thunder and Captain Horatius doubled up for him at Kempton yesterday . |
| 28 | Walking through her kitchen and cutting gardens at break-neck speed , marvelling at the weedless beds , and pyramids of purple clematis , the imposing topiary ( ‘ Russell [ Page ] used to tell me , ‘ Let them get fluffy and fabulous ’ ’ ) , Mrs Guest is in full flood : ‘ Oh , those chipmunks are wrecking my garden , ’ she declares , straightening a single toppled plant in an acreage of formidable order , and tugging nimbly at a lone weed . |
| 29 | Visitors marvelling at the perfection of work at the Woodworker Show . |
| 30 | Their behaviour was at times appalling ; when little they would spend long stretches of each class on the floor behind the benches , playing with bits of mercury , pricking it with needles and pen nibs , watching it slip into the coarse splintery cracks of the dusty floorboards , and forcing it out again , marvelling at the way it shrugged the dirt off its rounded shoulders . |