Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst resolving to stay at independent as possible , I contacted ACET who I knew provided practical care at home . |
| 2 | Billy Crystal has a perfect wife and beautiful daughter but feels rattrapped trying to support them , Daniel Stern is having an affair with a teenage supermarket assistant and has been reduced to pretending to sleep at social gatherings in order to avoid his nagging wife , and womanising Bruno Kirby has finally tied the knot with a glamorous bimbo half his age ( ‘ soon he 'll be dating sperm ’ , observes Crystal ) and agonises over whether he can stay faithful to her . |
| 3 | Next we are going to look at nutritional deficiencies . |
| 4 | Tonight , and during the next two Tuesday programmes , we are going to look at cultural links and influences . |
| 5 | This month we 're going to look at minor scales and their application . |
| 6 | The tone was worthy , but the programmes represented TV 's first weekly series attempting to look at gay people . |
| 7 | This was reflected in the difficulty which a number of local law societies clearly experienced in attempting to arrive at agreed conclusions on the questions posed . |
| 8 | They are going to travel at great speeds a lot faster than we think is safe . |
| 9 | In these autobiographical investigations , he seems to follow an aim he had noticed in L'Intelligence des Fleurs where , at times , Maeterlinck ‘ seems to be striving to look at scientific facts in a poetical manner … . |
| 10 | The Pontiac crouched for a whole foot lower than it did before , and General Motors shareholders were beginning to complain at annual meetings of bumping their heads or not being able to wear a hat in a Buick . |
| 11 | She works in Bank of Ireland , 85 James ' Street , Dublin , having joined at Clearing Department , Cabinteely in October 1978 and subsequently worked in St. Stephen 's Green branch and in Batch Centre , 34 College Green until her transfer to James ' Street in November 1987 . |
| 12 | And having looked at identified needs for affordable housing , within again various statements made by the local authorities and compared those with the commitments that are left , in other words the places where they they could reasonably be found , we get some fairly large percentages of affordable housing requirement le on on on the remaining land . |
| 13 | The women 's champion , Paula Newby-Fraser , from Zimbabwe , who set a course record of 9hr 1min 1sec last year , is in good shape , having won at Nice in May . |
| 14 | having wondered at slender disappearing shafts , |
| 15 | With City struggling to defend at set pieces , Strachan again planted a free kick into the penalty area where David Wetherall released Gary Speed whose left foot shot gave Tony Coton no chance . |
| 16 | You ca n't , take your point which we 've been trying to tackle at national account level |
| 17 | CD 's reference to his succeeding the experimental philosophical pig who had died from ‘ taking a bath at too high a temperature ’ , and thus falling a victim ‘ to his thirst for knowledge ’ is a jocose allusion to Pliny 's death during the eruption of Vesuvius , which he was trying to study at close quarters . |
| 18 | Er , we keep meaning look at certain things report a eight hour week , including overtime , have a record period of four months and then the filing industry take it away , the work is seasonal . |
| 19 | Thus , while depression may lead to dieting aimed at increasing self-esteem , starvation prompts further deterioration in mood . |