Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NFU plan aims to offer the farmer a choice between setting land aside and receiving the full , subsidised rate for produce , or producing at maximum capacity without support . |
| 2 | It takes effort on the part of the parent but can sometimes help them see that their child is eating more than they thought or eating at the wrong times of day . |
| 3 | Encourage the patient to do the types of activities recommended for him , and try to prevent him from sitting idly , or gazing at the television . |
| 4 | Continuing on the subject of getting involved , the committee are always delighted to hear from anyone wishing to help in any way ( half an hour once a year on a stall or helping at an open coffee morning would be tremendous ) . |
| 5 | But in poor families , many youngsters spend Saturdays earning money or helping at home , which prevents them attending such classes . |
| 6 | In entertaining , begging , or hawking at stations they were making shift to use the railway as an inadequate substitute . |
| 7 | A series of disasters involving public safety travelling or spectating at sports stadiums have occurred since 1985 . |
| 8 | Dame Edna Everage may make us laugh at prejudice , but are we smiling or laughing at ourselves ? |
| 9 | ‘ And I could n't see , so we could n't do any more the things we used to — just little things , like watching the sunset , or laughing at a holopic when we turned out the lights in bed , or me reading a poem to her . |
| 10 | We have , for example , no quantified evidence of seafood-gathering or livestock-rearing at Mallia . |
| 11 | Fair enough , I plead guilty to telling & laughing at sick jokes too . |
| 12 | Like a baby , playing with plastic beakers on the edge of a volcano , or shuddering at tales of the Big Bad Wolf while monstrous murderers sharpened their knives at the door . |
| 13 | He buried himself in work , while she filled every hour of the day playing tennis or golf at the Royal Club , or discoing at the Key or the Cheminée with a group of friends . |
| 14 | The other element of group violence is of course , if there are a group of people throwing bricks at the police , or chanting or swearing at people wanting to go to work from a picket line , the law , the criminal law is designed to prove guilt against an individual for an individual 's conduct according to the preordained laws , whether they be statute law or common law . |
| 15 | Or leering at her , to be more precise , but in a good-humoured way . |
| 16 | It was just another thing he did — like dealing with wills and conveyancing at Harris , Harris and Overdene , or shouting at Maisie to go to bed . |
| 17 | Many parents manage aggression by hitting or shouting at their child . |
| 18 | All I wish to do here is to suggest that there are other ways of understanding or looking at extremes of penitential life which can suggest in them sources , not of neurotic repression but of freedom and self-ownership . |
| 19 | They never stopped eating or talking or looking at people performing . |
| 20 | Some of their happiest hours together were spent driving , or looking at cars , or simply in the huge garages at St-Cloud , where Grégoire would contentedly remove wheels , and then replace them , and Edouard would contentedly watch him . |
| 21 | Many books deal with women at work , perhaps focusing briefly on their dual role at work and home , or looking at housework , but not exploring the extent to which women work and contribute to the work process . |
| 22 | I I think erm , that it can be looked at to , without H R T or looking at it medically , because lots of the women at Dean Terrace , in fact have |
| 23 | If you are watching some highly developed dance form , or some elaborately staged drama , or listening to highly developed music , or looking at highly developed sculpture or painting , you have at least some given mode of access to each art . |
| 24 | His wife nodded at his side but continued to clean the pans without replying or looking at him . |
| 25 | If anyone starts talking about sex or looking at the Indian women , someone always says , ‘ Riddled with diseases I 'm sure . ’ |
| 26 | Now you can see how easy it is with the numbers to make mistakes especially if you 're multiplying by tens or hundreds or thousands or looking at , trying to just look at a bit of it , oh that 's just , oh hang on is that seven or is that seventeen ? |
| 27 | Extending the curriculum to include a range of applications which more adequately than at present represents the kinds of human endeavour where mathematics is used would be another such change , with fewer examples involving ballistics and war , for instance , and more involving such activities as working with fabrics , designing appliances for the disabled or looking at the school canteen 's queuing problems . |
| 28 | If you can not afford the furniture or floorcovering you want , further trips to shops or markets , or looking at suppliers ' catalogues , should give you more inspiration . |
| 29 | When you are actually sort of writing er , say if you are , when you are doing your project or doing your work it 's not just sufficient to say always T ratio is greater than two , therefore , it 's statistically significant , you must calculate the er correct critical value you use , right , for th for each T ratio and also if you are looking at any diagnostics or looking at the significance of the regression which is an F statistic right you must give the five percent or ten percent whichever you choose . |
| 30 | Look at the implications looking back over it when when Fire and Public Protection had produced their report , but certainly the things are and it 's quite clear that we all know this case in my particular the river has been constricted by some thoroughly bad planning decisions and development control districts and they 're paying them that the owners are paying the penalty for that erm reducing the ditches and er building over them and okay we 've got problems erm so er there are structure plan implications erm which I do n't I think we should miss and if we say that really building on a is a principle well then we should try it right into the structure plan or looking at local plans for approval that we actually look at this a little bit more carefully . |