Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 's had a blood leakage into the vitreous humour , ’ Belinda explained unnecessarily , her heart thudding at the sight of him . |
| 2 | Paige said quickly , heart thumping at the very idea . |
| 3 | Also during this year Captain H.M. Williams was selected to command the 1 st Bucks team of sixty men , to compete for a prize offered by Lord Wantage for field firing at the Home Counties Brigade Camp at Churn , and of this team ( which won the competition ) thirty-two were Wolverton men . |
| 4 | In the church where I was converted , the service began with a muffled announcement from the back , followed by a lengthy hymn during which thirty men and women in long blue dresses , white nightshirts and yellowing ruffs walked up and down the various corridors in the building singing at the top of their voices . |
| 5 | Perhaps the Private Eye story hinting at a takeover of Barts by a private concern is not as farfetched as Tony Delamothe suggests . |
| 6 | Later that day , after many interviews with ladies who looked as if they 'd come straight from an enthralling hour knitting at the foot of the guillotine , we found our garret . |
| 7 | He estimates that an executive sous-chef working in a top London restaurant or hotel would be earning between £25,000 and £27,000 , whereas a head chef in contract catering at a director 's dining room , for example , would be doing very well to earn £20,000 . |
| 8 | The ad shows a crook gazing at the busty , mini-skirted girls and asks : ‘ Who 's giving your bag the eye ? ’ |
| 9 | The embroidery , a pattern of golden lily-flowers dotted here and there , each one at a fair distance from the other , would be confined to the shoulder band and to a broad sash fastening at the back in as large a bow as Miss Dallam would tolerate , its ends falling to the hem of her skirt . |
| 10 | His plan was based on the marine lieutenant landing at the Old Quay slipway in the North Harbour and creating a diversion there , while Jones himself landed , undetected it was hoped , on the south foreshore , put the battery there out of action and then , passing round the town , knocked out the North Battery , before joining up with the other party to burn the shipping in both harbours . |
| 11 | That just depicts the same structure in terms of constituents and sub-constituents , so the whole thing is a sentence which in the bracketing notation just has the sentence with its bracket and the other bracket 's way down the other end , and this is mirrored by the label sentence occurring at the top of the tree , it means it covers everything below it roughly . |
| 12 | He was a powerfully built man , over six feet tall with sleek black hair greying at the temples . |
| 13 | He was tall and thin , a leggy lightweight in a dark-grey suit , with a pleasant , long , cleanshaven face , and short hair greying at the temples and receding slightly from a weathered brown forehead . |
| 14 | an Aux(iliary) Input ( also a stereo 3.5 mm socket ) connects a cassette player to the GX-7 , the guitar output is mixed in and can be heard via a pair of Walkman headphones connected to the Out , the guitar appearing at the centre of the stereo image . |
| 15 | She was about to do the same with the contents of another file when something made her pause , hair prickling at the back of her head . |
| 16 | The practitioner travels in all directions , executing various movements , with the final technique ending at the very point where he began . |
| 17 | In 1990 it came of age , in 1991 it carried on where it left off with a superb Easter opening at a cold and windy Donington Park , England … |
| 18 | Theda stepped smartly back , away from her , distress catching at the breath in her throat . |
| 19 | The post office has a very interesting sign in the shape of a black and white pig hanging at the entrance . |
| 20 | It begins with Thom gazing at the object of his fixation , flattering her with couplets like , ‘ You 're just like an angel/Your skin makes me cry . ’ |
| 21 | And her fellow taxpayers did n't find their sovereign queueing at a cubby-hole for her £17.40 first-class ticket . |
| 22 | Allan Ramsay 's engaging portrait of Sir Edward and Lady Turner ( lot 21 , unpublished est. £250,000–350,000 ) , fresh from exhibition at the National Portrait Galleries of Edinburgh and London and sent to auction by the sitters ' descendants , fetched the morning 's top price , as expected , when it sold for £500,000 , an auction record for his work , to an agent bidding at the back of the room on behalf of a private collector against keen competition from David Posnett of Leger , who was the purchaser of a conversation piece by Nathaniel Hone ( lot 26 , est. £40,000–60,000 ) for £36,000 . |
| 23 | ‘ That 's obscene , ’ Ace growled , the hairs on the back of her neck prickling at the thought that a mother could do that . |
| 24 | There 's a stranger knocking at the window again Mrs . |
| 25 | She replaced the receiver and joined Stephen , who was sitting on the terrace looking at the sea . |
| 26 | An agent looking at a student actor makes a reasonable commercial judgement ; he considers whether a decision to take on an actor will be financially justified . |
| 27 | There was the afternoon when he drove out to the Crumbles and they slept for three hours , the wind pushing at the side of the car like a crowd . |
| 28 | There had been a revolt in Alexandria and the Caliph 's army , Mowbray 's group amongst them , had massed outside the city : the air thick with the beat of their kettledrums , the wind snapping at the huge green banners , and the silver crescents on the standards dazzling in the scorching sunlight . |
| 29 | One study looking at the protection provided by the two drugs against histamine induced bronchoconstriction suggested a more than fourfold difference in potency . |
| 30 | And one study looking at the experiences of black teenage mothers found that although they had begun using contraceptives as much as white girls , some had been persuaded by their boyfriends to stop using them . |