Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disembarking at certain points from a leisurely cruise , your guide , Bernie Dunn , arguably the best guide in Amsterdam will take you through Amsterdam 's most enchanting neighbourhoods by foot . |
| 2 | Jetting across the Atlantic , after two years in America , she had looked forward to seeing her home town from the air , to retracing toy-sized , familiar landmarks , to marvelling at new unfamiliar ones . |
| 3 | This translates as ‘ Why are you marvelling at this exceptional house . |
| 4 | Alice stood marvelling at this thought : that only a couple of days ago Mary Williams had seemed to hold her own fate Alice 's — in her hands ; and now Alice had difficulty in even remembering her status . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sure he would be proud of you , ’ Merrill said slowly , still marvelling at this new-found empathy . |
| 6 | Memory and imagination were grappling at each other 's throats , and these people would lose if he lay here much longer . |
| 7 | In October 1927 , the young missionary was steaming at 15–20 knots towards Rangoon . |
| 8 | Fortunately , Evan-Thomas in Barham , steaming at maximum speed with his four battleships , had come within firing range . |
| 9 | EIGHTY years ago tomorrow , on the night of 14/15 April 1912 , the ‘ unsinkable ’ passenger liner Titanic , steaming at high speed on her maiden transatlantic voyage , ran headlong into an iceberg off Newfoundland and plunged to the bottom of the ocean , taking more than 1,500 souls with her . |
| 10 | Some of the many ways in which dolphins make signal gestures to humans are leaping at significant moments , deliberately splashing people on boats after first making close eye contact , vocalising or whistling through the blowhole after people have made communicative calls or whistles , defaecation and touching . |
| 11 | ‘ But , dear David , ’ she said pitifully , ‘ you ca n't want us interfering at such a moment . |
| 12 | The new money will still leave gearing at 60 per cent , but Mr Scott says the company will be happy with that level of debt , given that gearing at other transport groups can be as high as 90 per cent . |
| 13 | The impact on MB Group 's balance sheet of acquiring sizeable goodwill in both ABS and Caradon is mostly offset by the issue of $150m US preferred stock and a handy £80m revaluation of its CMB stake to leave pro forma gearing at 24 per cent . |
| 14 | Taking into account post year end disposal proceeds [ and profits ] already announced , LASMO 's level of gearing at 31 December 1992 on a pro-forma basis would have been 88 per cent . |
| 15 | The new money will still leave gearing at 60 per cent , but Mr Scott says the company will be happy with that level of debt , given that gearing at other transport groups can be as high as 90 per cent . |
| 16 | The group 's finances are strong , with gearing at 40 per cent and group borrowings are being refinanced over 10 years . |
| 17 | Beginning on June 13 the estimated 200,000 troops and 250,000 militiamen belonging to the three guerrilla factions — of which the Khmers Rouges was the largest — and the Vietnamese-backed Phnom Pehn government were due to begin assembling at 95 UN-controlled regroupment areas . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The breakthrough , dubbed a ‘ quantum leap into the future ’ is opening at other cinemas throughout the US over the next few weeks . |
| 20 | On the foreign exchange market , sterling gained against the US dollar , opening at 1.5560 , up from 1.5473 last night . |
| 21 | ‘ Secondly , I believe you will begin to see during the night the cracks opening at last in the moulds that have held British politics in sterile opposition between two major parties for so long . |
| 22 | Opening at 2 pm , the Exhibition contained photographs of the stations , locomotives and rolling stock , copies of documents , some of the surviving artifacts from the line and , giving a modern touch , some computer drawn relief representations of the terrain through which the line ran . |
| 23 | So when staff are literally fuming at each other , and wanting to sue , the simple solution is to install an electrostatic air filter . |
| 24 | Fuming at faulty goods ? |
| 25 | I could n't help laughing at that . |
| 26 | Yes , I 'm laughing at that because I know Kenny Dalglish will laugh when he reads it . |
| 27 | Rufus started laughing at that and said all the doors in his life were strictly never kept closed . |
| 28 | ‘ She said he was laughing at that time and she just wanted to frighten him . ’ |
| 29 | She turned round to sec if he was laughing at one of the postcards but he was laughing at her . |
| 30 | They were all laughing at such ineptitude when Wainfleet telephoned . |