Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In gratitude for what I thought God had given me , a second chance , I ignored Leon 's boredom as I talked him through the files — just as I was ignoring Muriel 's messages to call her — and I ignored his rarely appearing at meetings with agricultural reps and men from the Milk Marketing Board ; ignored his non-involvement with any of the humdrum things essential to the running of a place like Sleet . |
| 2 | As one said , what Easton has , unlike many areas , is ‘ ordinary civil policing ’ ( FN 16/11/87 , p. 6 ) , so that there is a continuity with policing in Easton before the current troubles began : ‘ I was in Easton years ago when it was the old station , though basically policing at Easton has n't changed from when I was here years ago . |
| 3 | It was dawn on 13 November 1989 when there was a loud knocking at David Reed 's front door . |
| 4 | ‘ It ’ was all happening at sea . |
| 5 | She never managed to meet up with Vivienne and , as there did n't seem to be much happening at Dingwalls , we decided to drive down to Brighton , all of us crammed into the back of the Mini van . |
| 6 | Catering establishments of all types are constantly looking at ways of saving energy without reducing performance and there are a number of areas within the kitchen where such savings can be made . |
| 7 | But anyway , the whole problem we face now is how to do more samples because we 're only looking at intercourse in the cores of , say , a thousand or two thousand year spacing , we 've got to get down to a few hundred year spacing to really see some of the changes in climate that we know have gone on . |
| 8 | He knows that he is only looking at ink on paper , yet his nervous system responds to it in the same kind of way as it might respond to a real woman . |
| 9 | Er so looking at inheritance tax , er the house the estate the car , capital etcetera all count towards it . |
| 10 | Okay , so looking at numbers of people off work , |
| 11 | So looking at clauses joined by but is one way of revealing a speaker 's or writer 's underlying , unstated assumptions . |
| 12 | If you then start talking of building supermarkets whatever , then we 're obviously looking at thefts from supermarkets . |
| 13 | That was very interesting and I thought a good write up of and the things that he did , there to survive the World War Two and of course I go back to when the crews were formed and we flew together training at Pyo Texas and at er Dallasburgh , Tennessee and then from there went overseas , we went to er Scotville , Illinois and picked up new planes in Petermover and it was , we went to Stagen area . |
| 14 | With the graphics visualisation market apparently booming at present , PV says it expects the company to report an increase in profits this year of $19.3m , up $2.5m from the previous year 's $16.8m . |
| 15 | There will be much looking at books to hunt for pictures to identify objects on the nature table and to help with model-making . |
| 16 | Heavy going at Wigan The start was delayed for 25 minutes to enable the now inevitable lakecomers to find a vacant place . |
| 17 | Heavy going at Heathfield made for some slow times at the South Down & Eridge , where Chris Gordon scored a double for the second successive Saturday on Kirstenson and Please Explain . |
| 18 | The food at the hotel is mostly flown in from Vienna , so staying at Fudauri is Georgian extra-extra luxury . |
| 19 | All around her were the smiling faces so lacking at Oreste 's birth , for Ellen and William could not match the pride of Ferdinando nor the ecstasy of Pen , and she felt loved and treasured not pitifully alone and bereft . |
| 20 | They had both been asked about other men who were in France and answered patiently , knowing that the distraught women who asked them were only clutching at straws . |
| 21 | He had said ‘ we ’ , which heartened McAllister enormously but also meant that she must try to justify his confidence , and not let him down ; he must not think her a fine lady only playing at life — she meant to do her share , and yet try not to hinder him . |
| 22 | The young woman feels curiously as though she is only playing at house once more when she goes into the first flat or home that she can truly call her own . |
| 23 | It took her some time to get used to that but she got the knack of it in the end , and they spent hours together shooting at marks , or at rabbits on the Down or pigeons in the high trees at the forest edge . |
| 24 | The department is slack at present with its five-strong workforce only working at 50% capacity . |
| 25 | You 're presumably looking at people in other parts of the country ? |
| 26 | He was no longer looking at Mandy . |
| 27 | He added : ‘ Players are not just training at club sessions , they continue to build up on their own . |
| 28 | Thus looking at changes in sales in the various business segments is important when analysing overall profit margin . |
| 29 | In terms of the A nineteen south , that is already operating at capacity . |
| 30 | The plan was for a plant bigger than one already operating at Wakefield in Yorkshire . |