Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | He suggested that the Government were engineering or conniving at a high level of unemployment . |
| 3 | Illegal uses often include shopping trips , collecting spare parts for the garage or calling at a public house along a journey . |
| 4 | Now they are more likely to spend their time sitting in front of the television , watching videos or staring at a computer screen . |
| 5 | If one has poor eyesight or hearing at a younger age , then an appeal against jury service is likely to be upheld . |
| 6 | Going to work for a young musician may mean days spent rehearsing — getting songs down on tape , producing a demo on a front-room recording unit , or playing at a pub gig . |
| 7 | A few years ago , the paedophile , strolling through the shopping mall , or sitting at a quiet table in Salad Binge or Just Desserts , might have coordinated his assignations — his intergenerational trysts — by mobile telephone . |
| 8 | Those people are not exploiting a loophole or grabbing at a large pot of gold . |
| 9 | The associated additional cost arises from either people and equipment standing idle while instructions are awaited , or working at a reduced rate on other activities , therefore increasing durations of these activities . |
| 10 | Rather than establishing at a strategic level housing requirements , so that local plans being formulated can weigh those housing requirements against environmental constraints . |
| 11 | The emergence of Gestalt ‘ wholes ’ ( Bruce and Green , 1985 ) or the application of Gestalt principles , as in David Marr 's work on computer vision ( Marr , 1982 ) , illustrate the kinds of matchings of similar elements which , although operating at a level of pre-awareness , nevertheless result in a conscious recognition of an image 's identity . |
| 12 | ICI , although running at a loss of £384 million , still distributed £393 million to its shareholders , over half its R&D budget . |
| 13 | Therefore it is hypothesized that , rather than evolving at a constant speed in calendar time , futures prices evolve at a constant speed in event time . |
| 14 | But if the profit was earned by the exploitation of property assets as by letting property , lending money or dealing in commodities or securities by buying and reselling at a profit , the profit will have arisen in or derived from the place where the property was let , the money was lent or the contracts of purchase and sale were effected . |
| 15 | Look straight ahead as if gazing at a place on a wall . |
| 16 | Duties are changing and accumulating at a faster rate than they can be successfully discharged . |
| 17 | For laughing and singing at a funeral her husband gave her a reproving tap , and she had to return to her home in the lake . |
| 18 | I drafted a statement for the trade union , detailing the nature of their support for me and hinting at a readiness to take further action were the matter not resolved in days . |
| 19 | But she is excellent in the play-extracts , lending Amanda in Private Lives just the right touch of acid mockery and hinting at a whole world of repressed longing as the suburban wife in Still Life ( the embryonic version of Brief Encounter ) . |
| 20 | THE Princess of Wales arrived smiling and laughing at a Christmas concert last night . |
| 21 | The pattern consisted of repetitive peristaltic contractions in the body of the oesophagus not related to swallowing and occurring at a rhythm of four to eight contractions per minute and lasting for periods of two to eight minutes . |
| 22 | The Reverend Dr James Massey , General Secretary of the Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge , teaches publishing and bookselling at a workshop in Bangladesh . |
| 23 | But where the crossing is controlled the offences such as failing to accord precedence and overtaking at a crossing can not be committed . |
| 24 | If parents do not find time for such training they will spend more time scolding and correcting at a later stage . |
| 25 | The alleged purpose of improving the service and operating at a profit has already been achieved by New Zealand Rail as a state-owned enterprise , as Bernard Hickey points out . |
| 26 | In a chair opposite sat Tom who was drinking tea and looking at a book . |
| 27 | I 've got to get some sleep , ’ the impresario said , eating a spoonful of caviar and looking at a column about grosses in Variety . |
| 28 | For actually glancing down and looking at a clock |
| 29 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 30 | During the holiday , Norma who was already suffering the stresses of life as the wife of a Government Minister awoke one night covered in sweat and clawing at a port hole , trying to get out . |