Example sentences of "[vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They began selling at an early age , certainly before 10 years of age . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Eleanor started hinting at an affair . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Er er do you reckon we ought to have had , you kn you know we went over to gas , I toyed with the idea of fetching that do you know , you know when this house were built we went looking at a depot where they 've got all these grates and I took th funnily enough I took the measurements of the breast and er the only one we found was just that dead on look , right across |
| 11 | I went looking at a house the other day and it backed on to a lake . |
| 12 | 1982 kept going at a lightning pace . |
| 13 | Abu Khadra remembered stopping at a gas station and finding three bullet holes in his car from snipers . |
| 14 | And two women pictured chatting at a cottage door ‘ Miss Jewitt and Miss Carter , Mickley 1921 , ’ as Louisa 's typically matter-of-fact caption notes sport fanciful bonnets that ca n't have been part of their everyday dress . |
| 15 | President Mikhail Gorbachev , in his capacity as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) , won backing at a meeting of the party central committee on Feb. 5-7 for a new draft party platform . |
| 16 | Then is sometimes claimed to be necessarily anaphoric in nature , and to have no gestural deictic usage , but rather complex usages show this is not so — consider , for example , the following said pointing at a 1962 model Chevrolet ( Nunberg , 1978 : 33 ) ) : ( 55 ) I was just a kid then As an initial step towards seeing how time deixis interacts with cultural measurements of time in an absolute or non-deictic way , consider words like today , tomorrow , yesterday . |
| 17 | The American novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote standing at a tall refrigerator — a chair and table being too cramped for the big mountain man — and he dropped unnumbered sheets , each with a few scrawled words , into a cardboard box at his feet . |
| 18 | A tall , thin man stood staring at a stone wall , as if waiting for an answer to a question he had put to it . |
| 19 | Fifteen minutes later , or it may have been twenty , I stood staring at a caged lift : the chest-flexing iron lattice , the accordion doors . |