Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember to keep these screws well back , to be hidden by the frame , because although the Faithful kneeling at the altar are meant to have their minds on other things , this is professional woodwork and we do n't want them peering up the legs of our fixings . |
| 2 | Some people even refuse to use this part of the E-6000 programming at all , saying that it is no good to them , because they can not understand how a column of figures can relate to a knitted garment . |
| 3 | She said most of it was it was n't the actual looking at the hole it was that she was hurting him pushing it in . |
| 4 | I remember one day in the 1940s sitting at a table on the first floor of the Crown in Fleet Street , next to a table where an attractive young woman , then unknown to me , was sitting in front of a plate of smoked salmon and opposite an empty place furnished with another plate of smoked salmon , which must have been ordered in advance . |
| 5 | The research programme is the first study of support networks of the elderly looking at developments over time . |
| 6 | The most coherent films to emerge from Elstree during this time were both set in the Edwardian era , Losey 's glorious The Go-Between ( 1970 ) and The Railway Children ( 1970 ) , with the latter aiming at that much-lamented but largely-departed family audience . |
| 7 | The pacing of that third movement climax is one of the few weak spots in Claus Peter Flor 's interpretation — the jump forward at 8′40″ ( fig. 129 in the score ) is either a structural miscalculation or a different take , and the premature slowing at 10′12″ ( fig. 137 ) is no more effective . |
| 8 | Racing at Ayr up in Scotland where it is dry , Nottingham , Cheltenham where the Mackeson Gold Cup is , big card at Windsor with a lot of runners and finally the all-weather racing at Lingfield . |
| 9 | At first the load was trifling , annual expenditure in the 1950s running at about £1 million , rising to around £5 million annually in the mid-1960s . |
| 10 | Roland felt a strange pricking at the base of his neck . |
| 11 | The Draft provides for the service of documents required for the purpose of a civil proceeding at the request of a tribunal ( defined to include courts , and administrative agencies engaged in the exercise of judicial or quasi-judicial functions ) of the state of origin . |
| 12 | There was no incredible bulging at the centre ; no cracks , no jagged patches where plaster might have fallen under the strain . |
| 13 | No , there 's no good getting at my |
| 14 | It 's no good looking at the cigars available and attempting to choose one on the basis of certain criteria . |
| 15 | Yet ‘ to ascertain whether or not an institution is a charity , it is , then , no good looking at the Act ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ If you think a Rottweiler is going to attack you , it 's no good staring at it like you do with other dogs . |
| 17 | No good staring at it Joy , get it |
| 18 | ’ Such doubts vary in intensity but bear united witness to a complacence or a disgruntled grumbling at any need for God and for his handling of our affairs . |