Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At night , while John 's impatient body sleeps , I listen to the waves loosely slapping at the side of the stilled ship . |
| 2 | ‘ State Department officials were unavailable for comment , ’ the New York Times reported , thereby hinting at the source of the leak , but if the story had been aired as a trial balloon , it failed to lift off . |
| 3 | Pots will be attractive to add instant colour and a path sweeps away under the pergola towards the rockery where it turns through a right angle in front of the rose bed , eventually ending at the vegetable plot that is neatly screened by the hedge . |
| 4 | Letters regularly occur in certain combinations and positions with , for example , the letter Q always being followed by U , and a number of letters rarely appearing at the end of a word ( e.g. , J V ) . |
| 5 | He now receded from the City , rarely appearing at the exchanges , even the Baltic , the scene of his most memorable deals in Russian tallow . |
| 6 | And perhaps in the minds of many , the memories of their tragic stay in Oxford were slowly softening at the edges . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , however , the book 's value as a work of reference is somewhat undermined by errors , some apparently hinting at a lack of background knowledge , while other statements are contradicted by the sources cited : e.g. John Graham , Lord Kilpont becomes John Stewart , Lord Kinpont — a gentleman otherwise unknown to history ; Balcarre 's and Barclay 's regiments of horse are confused ; Sir James Scott of Rossie becomes Sir James Scott of Rosyth ; and variant spellings of proper names abound . |
| 8 | Few things were more demoralising than to stand uselessly by while other men demonstrated their professional competence ; Kerrison , that connoisseur of death , literally sniffing at the body ; the photographers , taciturn , preoccupied with lighting and angles ; Inspector Doyle , in charge of a murder case at last , impresario of death , tense with the suppressed excitement of a child at Christmas gloating over a new toy . |
| 9 | Yet neither club commands very great support and even a Second Division Hartlepool or Darlington perhaps struggling at the foot of the division would be unlikely to attract more than 56,000 per game . |
| 10 | A loud banging at the front door stopped both of them in their tracks . |
| 11 | He was cut short by a loud knocking at the front door . |
| 12 | Athelstan sat looking at her in wonderment , constantly marvelling at the difference in women , contrasting this hag to the beauty of Lady Isabella . |
| 13 | We can not tell which it was by merely looking at the facts ; we have to ask what his purpose actually was . |
| 14 | While it has made no formal application to offer video-on-demand to customers — the official line is that it is merely looking at the technology 's potential — it is already clear that it faces a tough task convincing regulatory bodies that it has the right to do so . |
| 15 | Merely looking at the final stage of supply can obscure the full range of options open to a particular firm in its choice of serving foreign markets . |
| 16 | Er and therefore it looks at erm the indirect impact of development erm and it 's it 's more sophisticated one might say than merely looking at the quality of the land . |
| 17 | It should be a condition , for anyone thinking about development to resist trying to infer how a structure develops by only looking at the final result . |
| 18 | No have a look , you 're only looking at the beginning of it here try again |
| 19 | John Heminges said they were dark , cruel plays , and that Will was only looking at the black side of people . |
| 20 | One of the most important areas of credit management is risk assessment , not only looking at the individual customer companies concerned , but also at the current financial background in which they operate . |
| 21 | On an acquisition level , it means only looking at the assets , market valuation and cash-flow rather than at the nature of the business . |
| 22 | He 's only looking at the pictures , he ca n't read really Eh what did you think of the dancing concert ? |
| 23 | The book is also universally regarded as McGahern 's masterpiece , a view probably best expressed by playwright Tom Kilroy who described ‘ Amongst Women ’ as ‘ one of the most significant achievements in Irish fiction ’ and suggested that McGahern ‘ is obviously writing at the fullness of his power . ’ |
| 24 | Erm right so looking at the details of those , right what we 've , what we 're actually saying then is that if erm you , you would want to provide that income or want to make sure that that , that income was available should you die tomorrow ? |
| 25 | Tt and we 're obviously looking at a process of land reform which has , has undergone a number of changes and I think we , we 've begun to see some of the influences on those changes and particularly over the , the last week or so the this has . |
| 26 | Therefore , they were left with the option of investing millions of pounds or closing them , and perhaps looking at the building of a new reactor . |
| 27 | he continued , suddenly grinning at the tall old man as they walked between the levels of stoves and cookers and fires , Scullions ran about the place , carrying brooms and buckets and baskets full of hidden ingredients . |
| 28 | Unix System Labs is apparently looking at the Tiny 386BSD boot disk ( the one that 's been circulating in the academia , which derives from Bill Jolitz 's work and is not from Berkeley System Design Inc ) checking that it does n't infringe their property rights . |
| 29 | There was one vehicle there , a car with two figures sitting in the front seats and apparently looking at the road ahead of them . |
| 30 | One lady crouched under the leathery flanks of a water buffalo , gently pulling at the beast 's udders , shooting warm jets of frothy milk into a battered tin pail . |