Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [conj] [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faced with actually going back to the barn , she was not now so serene about it as she had been when she was lying in the field and gazing at the sky . |
| 2 | ‘ What on earth has happened to you ? ’ gasped Ethel , untying the gag and pulling at the knots in the sash and rope . |
| 3 | There she lay , cold and wounded , clutching the branch and staring at the corpse of Scathach , limp over the black horse . |
| 4 | Okay well it will be interesting to see what er what other people have , have said about it because I was sort of fishing around a bit in the dark and looking at the stats manual |
| 5 | Then he would go to his study and attend to his own writing , characteristically composing straight onto the typewriter and standing at a kind of lectern . |
| 6 | In fact , one piece of wood makes up the side of the guitar , all the way from the endpin , round the left-hand side , behind the neck and ending at the point of the cutaway . |
| 7 | McEwan and Sylvester ( 1984 ) describe the work as beginning at the point where words fail by creating ‘ … evocations of mood and sensation more than visual records ’ ( p. 10 ) . |
| 8 | And he started thumping the sand and wailing at the seagulls — real Play for Today stuff — and an elderly couple who were listening to a radio behind a wind-break looked quite alarmed . |
| 9 | ‘ Do I give that impression ? ’ she asked , switching off the ignition and wondering at the stupidity of people . |
| 10 | Lawrie , 34 , of Broughton Road , Edinburgh , admitted stealing the cash while working at the Thistle Foundation 's offices in Niddrie Mains Road between June and November 1991 . |
| 11 | A devotee praying before the idol and gazing at the God 's face is thus influenced by an electro-magnetic field which interacts with the devotee 's own bioenergy field . |
| 12 | Foinavon had been trained by Tom Dreaper in Ireland for Arkle 's owner Anne , Duchess of Westminster , but while in Dreaper 's charge had been notable mainly for his extraordinarily laid-back demeanour : in a chase at Baldoyle he was in the lead when falling at the third fence , throwing Pat Taaffe well clear , but Foinavon did not bother to scramble to his feet , preferring to remain on the ground and pick quietly at the grass beside him . |
| 13 | Freedom is found by taking up our abode in the transcendent and looking at the world objectively . |
| 14 | He paused irresolutely , not scrunching , as the others were beginning to , across the two sets of rails between our train and the station but meandering at an angle forward in the direction of the engine . |
| 15 | The alleged purpose of improving the service and operating at a profit has already been achieved by New Zealand Rail as a state-owned enterprise , as Bernard Hickey points out . |
| 16 | : I was on leave from the WRAF and waiting at a bus stop in the town on my way to visit my grandmother . |
| 17 | His computer was totally compatible with the machines of the brand leader IBM , but with the added advantage of being about half the price and running at a much faster speed . |
| 18 | I took another one and then just sat there , warming my hands on the mug and staring at the coffee . |
| 19 | This can be put to good use in soaring conditions as a means of getting into the lift when cruising at a high speed . |
| 20 | The local bands have not been altogether ousted ; some were taking part in the contests after playing and walking in a procession in the morning and playing at the sports in the afternoon . |
| 21 | He was defending himself with great skill , every now and then sliding his hands down the staff and striking at a distance with its full length , and then suddenly changing direction and bringing the shortened end up in a jab at the face or stomach of one of the attackers he had tempted to come too close . |
| 22 | Everyone who wants to act professionally should try to see as much drama as they possibly can — and this means in the broadest sense , watching television , cinema , visiting the theatre and looking at the actor 's work carefully and analytically . |
| 23 | The complication was in saying the newly minted lines at the right side of the mirror whilst arriving at the same place each time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The trash cans were big and had just been emptied , and in an instant the boys were off chasing the girls and yelling at the tops of their voices . |
| 26 | The leaves are dark green to brownish-green , egg-shaped or elliptical , rounded at the tip and tapering at the base to the stalk . |
| 27 | There are two small patches to the north of the city and looking at the plan again this morning there 's one small patch |
| 28 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 29 | Many authorities regard the Monoplacophora as lying at the root of the other molluscan groups ; gastropods , cephalopods and even bivalves may have been derived from them . |
| 30 | The Commandment anticipates The Form but is less comprehensive in its analysis , whereas in Ego Dormio although he does not borrow Victorine terminology for his analysis , he nevertheless outlines a growth in religious experience similar to that in The Form but starting at an earlier stage in religious life . |