Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dutch police have the power to confiscate a vehicle found speeding at 70 kilometres per hour more than the legal level . |
| 2 | So if you were caught speeding at 90 miles an hour along the M4 in Wiltshire your fine would calculate something like this |
| 3 | But once one starts looking at such headings , questions arise . |
| 4 | Like most young people Sarah Jacobs loves looking at fashionable clothes . |
| 5 | I said , ‘ 'Course I can , ’ an' then 'e starts lookin' at these papers as though I was n't there . |
| 6 | CHART star Carl Cox stopped performing at illegal raves after discovering that police had tapped his phone . |
| 7 | During the afternoon ‘ B ’ Flight of 261 Squadron was ordered to scramble after three Ju88s reported approaching at 20,000 feet . |
| 8 | Housing associations attempt to provide housing at fair rents either for community needs or for special groups such as retired rural workers , the elderly or the handicapped , both through building and through acquisition of existing properties ( Clark 1981 ) . |
| 9 | " Look , stop looking at those females and pay attention ; you are following all this , are n't you ? " |
| 10 | Do you like looking at those pictures ? |
| 11 | A guide price of $8,000 is being quoted for the router , which can support one or two local network connections and up to four SDLC links running at T1/E1 speeds . |
| 12 | Will donors be prepared to provide the extra funds needed for reconstruction or even to continue funding at current levels ? |
| 13 | The Hydrogeology Group has been doing such work on behalf of the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) : repeat drilling at five sites in the Chalk of East Anglia reveals decreased nitrate concentrations in the upper part of the unsaturated zone . |
| 14 | He was walking with his mum in Chicago when two men in a car began firing at three others . |
| 15 | Another exodus began at 6.30 a.m. on 1 September 1939 , when Glasgow children began assembling at 57 schools , 70,000 weans scrubbed and labelled for a bewildering adventure . |
| 16 | The group was given the go-ahead and began looking at all options . |
| 17 | Partly too , because I just like looking at beautiful books . |
| 18 | Under McLaren 's tutelage , the Pistols began playing at private parties and the occasional pub , then regularly at the 100 Club in Oxford Street , building up an excitable following and a reputation for contrived mayhem . |
| 19 | He hoped that I could undertake something in that line , especially in relation to Italy : for I had been giving him my impressions of the visit to Rome , which included encountering at close quarters , Mussolini , Count Ciano , and Edda his wife , and the by comparison rather puny Neville Chamberlain . |
| 20 | A mechanism which was proposed in Chapter 2 for explaining the inverted-U relationship was that of attention focusing occurring at higher levels of arousal in line with Easterbrook 's hypothesis . |
| 21 | I suppose well my children would say my answer to everything is to say to them breathe , you know , and erm you know just do very simple relaxation if nothing else , and then that allows you maybe to start looking at other things , but to get to the state where you can begin to look at things without the fears and emotions getting in the way . |
| 22 | At Glenmore the snow-gates were shut , indicating drifting at higher levels . |
| 23 | So he and Mr Skinner started pointing at Tory MPs , appearing to be arguing about precisely how many of them had fallen asleep during the Health Secretary 's speech . |
| 24 | . ’ To the non-musician , the name Mozart means the archetypal prodigy , the boy who started composing at four years old , and as a child touring the courts of Europe astounded monarchs with his amazing aptitude for keyboard playing ; who at 14 copied out from memory a complex choral piece heard once in the Sistine Chapel ; who died in mysterious circumstances and was given a pauper 's funeral in an unmarked grave . |
| 25 | The research aims to examine the potential for maritime arms control measures beyond the draft Strategic Arms 1990s , there are likely to be significant political and international developments ( from budgetary problems in the US to pressure on overseas bases ) which will affect the West 's ability to continue deploying at current levels of naval levels of naval superiority . |
| 26 | ‘ The fact that these tapes and stories keep reappearing at regular intervals suggests that someone is behind this attempt to hurt him . |
| 27 | Try reading at different speeds . |
| 28 | Waxing is a very laborious process and the wood will require re-waxing at regular intervals . |
| 29 | Nigel liked looking at glossy magazines . |
| 30 | Although the gliders were left facing at right angles to the wind and were weighted down with tyres in the approved manner , when the first strong thermal went off nearby the wind would become gusty and change direction completely . |