Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Southall , who admitted speeding at an earlier hearing , was fined Pounds 700 and given six penalty points . |
| 2 | On the back of Wall Street 's overnight strength , the FT-SE 100 cash index rose 33 points at the outset and , with the futures index opening at a hefty premium , looked poised to turn in a record-setting performance . |
| 3 | In a dialect poem of 1730 on the West Riding the master clothier and his wife appear breakfasting at a common table with their family , a few journeymen , servants and apprentices before setting down to weave together from " five at morn till eight at neet " . |
| 4 | As shown earlier , calcium phosphate starts precipitating at a pH of about 6 . |
| 5 | When back pain and arthritis are the problems it can help to take short rests or breaks from a long stint in one position — say sitting at a desk or standing at an ironing-table . |
| 6 | I mean looking at a book and see the distance between , in there they give you the distance between Leeds , Ipswich , Leicester and Scotland and then you come to kilometres and |
| 7 | Dr Neil avoided looking at a bridling McAllister , particularly when Mrs Darrell went on to say , still in the same shriek , ‘ Hope she 's honest , Neil . |
| 8 | Usually seen soaring at a considerable height . |
| 9 | Not only are peak users paying for the high marginal costs they impose , but also those users who would not mind consuming at a different time ( e.g. households with night storage heaters , who can use electricity at a time when marginal costs are low ) are induced by cheaper prices to switch to consuming at off-peak times . |
| 10 | A SOLDIER today denied that his evidence was a ‘ total fabrication ’ to justify firing at a stolen car in West Belfast . |
| 11 | I picked up a book , but put it down again and began looking at a tiny red spider on the leaf of a geranium , ad lost count of time . |
| 12 | Because it , it 's terrifying looking at a blank piece of paper when we needed ways to start the comment . |
| 13 | I remember looking at a graph showing the complications of the financing of the community charge . |
| 14 | They began selling at an early age , certainly before 10 years of age . |
| 15 | The samples go back over 30 000 years , and they show that after being constant for most of that time the methane concentration began to increase in 1580 ( Geophysical Research Letters , vol 9. p 1221 ) At the end of the 16th century , the methane concentration began increasing at a rate of 0.114 ppmv per century ( parts per million by volume ) and around 1915 the rate accelerated to the present figure of 2.5 ppmv per century — if the data can be taken at face value . |
| 16 | Eleanor started hinting at an affair . |
| 17 | Some times a whole period is spent looking at a ladybird . |
| 18 | His formative years were spent living at a small terraced house in , a house which still remains in use today . |
| 19 | She was found wandering at a golf course , near Stockport , Cheshire , on Monday . |
| 20 | If a problem ( or a proof ) seems too difficult as it stands one can try looking at a special or simpler case . |
| 21 | And given that total hardware sales plummeted by 19.4% to $5,740m in the quarter , keeping the overall decline to 7% was an achievement in itself , even if within a quarter or three , turnover can be expected to start declining at an accelerating pace . |
| 22 | And given that total hardware sales plummeted by 19.4% to $5,740m in the quarter , keeping the overall decline to 7% was an achievement in itself , even if within a quarter or three , turnover can be expected to start declining at an accelerating pace . |
| 23 | He says it would be morally wrong to reduce spending at a time when millions depend on it just to survive . |
| 24 | Six months are spent studying at an Institut Universitaire de Technologie specializing in Marketing , Management/Personnel or Computing , and this is followed by a 3-month integrated work placement . |
| 25 | One approach that seems appealing at a common-sense level is to facilitate the evolution of natural groups of clinicians who work together because their specialities and interests are common . |
| 26 | I started lecturing at a college of higher education in 1978 but returned to research and soft money in 1980 as soon as my husband had left . |
| 27 | Others need precise daily rations of sunlight that change with the seasons if they are to start flowering at a particular time . |
| 28 | The jockey merry-go-round kept whirring at a fierce pace as Adrian Maguire , who rode Cool Ground to win the Gold Cup , joined the rapidly-growing casualty list at Liverpool after falling with Sibton Abbey in the Perrier Jouet Handicap Chase . |
| 29 | The dealer got more and more paranoid sitting there , noticing these two guys in the corner who kept looking at a bit of paper then at him , then having a bit of a conflab . |
| 30 | Pictured looking at a first edition of Mansfield Park are , back row : |