Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was , as well , a woman above reproach , avoiding involvement in all intrigues , keeping everyone at a distance and thus surrounded by universal esteem . |
| 2 | He 's amusing himself at a dull time of year , and being here without his womenfolk , but he 's as adroit at calming the storm as he is at raising it . |
| 3 | These past three years he had grown sullen and morose , keeping himself at a distance , always watching her , silently blaming her for Maisie 's tragic death . |
| 4 | ‘ He has no manners , eats like a peasant , talks like he needs salt on his marrow , and is as free with his smile as a tinker cheating you at a fair on a saint 's day . |
| 5 | You 're eliminating one at a time . |
| 6 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 7 | He 'd laughed at her , teased her , and succeeded in keeping her at a distance . |
| 8 | Many of the instrumental numbers were so relaxed , they looked like they were amusing themselves at a family party and when Harry told everyone to stand up as he bopped around the stage in his black silk suit , everyone did as they were told . |
| 9 | In the final stages of the peace-making at Utrecht in 1713 the representatives of the different powers avoided many of the difficulties and delays which had marked earlier such conferences by entering the meeting-place in the town hall pêle-mêle ( i.e. in no particular order ) and then seating themselves at a round table which had no head . |
| 10 | ‘ There are people who are prepared to take advantage , selling trees under false pretences , valuing them at a lot more than they are worth . |
| 11 | Both men also received annuities of 1,000 marks , which went some considerable way towards endowing them at a level appropriate to their rank . |
| 12 | Replacing them at a familial level , the spice-box has taken its place , sometimes simple , sometimes ornate ; a witness to the fragrance of that Sabbath grace that lingers still . |
| 13 | Trippy was meeting somebody at a club down at Camden Lock but he could n't remember who or exactly where . |
| 14 | Hayling had introduced Casares-Roach to Walsh after meeting her at a Ford workers ' conference in Benidorm where she had been the translator . |
| 15 | A group of kids are on a roundabout , one foot on and one foot off , they are pushing it at a giddy speed , round and around until their faces form a single banded blur . |
| 16 | informal rejection or acceptance of the planning proposal , without expressing it at a formal level |
| 17 | Woodway Park School , Coventry , is assembling kits for bio-reactors — special vessels in which bacteria can be put to work — and selling them at a profit to other schools across the country . |
| 18 | By the late 1960s , the new social patterns , technologies and musical styles had been substantially assimilated into a reorganized music-industrial system : a transnational oligopoly of vast entertainment corporations , supplied to some extent by ‘ independent ’ producers ; serviced by mass audience radio and TV channels ( with some ‘ minority ’ shows and channels ) , by a symbiotically pliant music press and by related leisure-products businesses ; and directing itself at a series of separate audiences whose distinctness is less subcultural than a creature of market researchers ' consumer profiles . |
| 19 | There was a strange picture in one of the bedrooms of a centaur-like creature , a horse with the torso and head of a man , presenting itself at a forge to be shod , where it was eyed with fearful fascination by the smith and a crowd of onlookers . |
| 20 | Carefully measuring out distances and angle of fire , the Doctor triggered the blaster on its constant wide-beam setting , directing it at a spot on the tunnel floor a few feet ahead , where there was a sharp corner . |
| 21 | Assessments of the permissible level of incidental catch should be based on the desirability of returning dolphin stocks to original levels , not holding them at a depleted level through a continuation of a high level of incidental kill . |
| 22 | Everybody has them and something must be holding you at a given height above the ground ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Is your sister expecting you at a specific time ? ’ asked Penry when they were on the way to Haverfordwest at last . |
| 24 | He fended her off simply by the expedient of grasping her wrists , holding her at a distance so that she could n't even contrive to kick his shins . |
| 25 | Diluting it and mixing in it into slurry lagoons or spreading it at a low rate on grassland was a method used in the past , but even that may not be possible now . |
| 26 | But , if you were buying it at a garage you were probably gon na pay at least four |
| 27 | Erm , when I drew attention to this , one of the first things I did when I got elected to this council , erm , we get papers back which seem to suggest that in fact the Home Office are funding it at a level which , dare I say suggests that we might even make a small profit , er and I have in fact recently been approached by colleagues from Gloucestershire , asking us how we manage in that er , er exercise , because they 're concerned about the high cost of er , protection for certain royal establishments in their county . |
| 28 | ‘ The Scots do n't look very … amusable , ’ drawled Georgie , picking a bit of 1,000-year-old stone off the wall behind him and aiming it at a tent-peg . |
| 29 | Stephen Bayley , former director of the Design Museum , will chair a debate , taking questions from the floor ( many pre-wrapped ) and flinging them at a panel of designers , architects , patrons and critics , among them Peter Palumbo , chairman of the Arts Council , and Mies van der Rohe buff . |
| 30 | And he employs a zig-zag training sprint which involves a series of passes before the player finishes off by flinging himself at a rugby tackle bag ! |