Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking care not to wake her sons , who were curled up together on their sleeping mats , she dressed and combed her hair then slipped out of the hut without looking at her husband . |
| 2 | Part of the problem in arriving at a satisfactory definition seems to stem from the segmented approach of assessing browsing within the context of the catalogue , separate from the direct shelf approach . |
| 3 | At the conference of the Institute of Housing at Harrogate in 1985 , Mr. Banham praised the authority of the city of which I had the privilege to be leader , describing it as the most efficient authority in Britain . |
| 4 | It is , therefore , all the more important to round off this discussion of the privileging of the gaze by looking at the work of critics who positioned themselves outside the psychoanalytical framework . |
| 5 | Other engineering work on the railway includes a full winter programme on permanent way work , completion of the installation of signalling at Tywyn Penre and further progress on the fitting of air brakes to locomotives and passenger rolling stock . |
| 6 | Part of the attraction of shopping at ‘ Laura Ashley ’ was finding uniquely eccentric clothes . |
| 7 | Terms like ‘ expressionistic approach ’ and ‘ figurative equivalence ’ signal the critic 's preoccupation with the issue of likeness for , it would be assumed , if we are to accept these works as portraits there must be some point at which the notion of the subject-sitter intrudes upon the paint-as-surface which is such a prominent aspect of the experience of looking at Auerbach 's work . |
| 8 | ( Some would have already recovered the development value of the land by selling at a high price ; others may never have wished to develop their land , and , indeed , might even have bought it for the express purpose of preventing its development . ) |
| 9 | The direct costs incurred in connection with the issue of capital instruments should be deducted from the proceeds of the issue in arriving at the net amount . |
| 10 | But when someone tried to test the security of the spare wheel attached to the side of the body by pulling at it roughly and then , intrigued by the pair of leather driving-gauntlets resting on the front seat , fitted them on and passed them around for general examination he decided it was time to leave . |
| 11 | ‘ I need some tea and I 've got a thermos here , ’ he announced , getting out of the car without looking at her and opening the back door on his side to find the thermos which he had filled before starting off . |
| 12 | He placed the cigarette on the edge of the ashtray before looking at her again . |
| 13 | We can see part of the answer by looking at how modern DNA molecules cooperate in the chemical factories that are living cells . |
| 14 | A useful way of keeping candidates to the order which suits you , apart from giving them an idea of the sequence of questioning at the top of the interview , is to preface each group of questions with an explanatory sentence or two . |
| 15 | We can corroborate our timescale of the circulation by looking at the changes in density surface of the salinity minimum . |
| 16 | I scuttled out of the flat without looking at my friend , leaving husband and wife to each other and feeling I 'd betrayed everyone — Changez , Mum and Dad , and myself . |
| 17 | He walked out of the flat without looking at either of us . |
| 18 | He walks out of the shrine without looking at the crowd , picks up one of the lambs , frightened and bleating , and carries its almost weightless body round to the side of the shrine . |
| 19 | The six-foot-six-inch England forward returned to America after helping the Mohawks gain a place in the play-offs with a victory at Cardiff in their last league game of the season before also being outstanding in the first game of the play offs when Middlesborugh pulled off the shock of the season by winning at second division league winners Oldham . |