Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Southall , who admitted speeding at an earlier hearing , was fined Pounds 700 and given six penalty points . |
| 2 | Together they started to laugh , the deep chuckle and the dry whispery cackle rolling past the monks , who returned with a start to their praying ; past Bridhe , Elizabeth , Marion , Hector and his young attendants , the women , clan officers , nephews , cousins , clansmen great and common , clustered weeping at the death-bed of the man who had been chief for the whole life-time of most of them . |
| 3 | She stopped struggling at the sound of her name , and his hand dropped from her face . |
| 4 | Junior environment minister found careering at the wheel after midnight during the Tory party conference in Bournemouth . |
| 5 | Reading was difficult for me , especially when it involved looking at the chalkboard , and I soon found myself being classed as ‘ thick ’ . |
| 6 | When I finally stopped growing at the age of 17 I felt relief . |
| 7 | The detour was to Holmstroyd and involved stopping at the jetty . |
| 8 | He began by doing seasonal work which involved working at the maltings during the winter and working in a brickyard during the summer . |
| 9 | Dr Neil avoided looking at a bridling McAllister , particularly when Mrs Darrell went on to say , still in the same shriek , ‘ Hope she 's honest , Neil . |
| 10 | I avoided looking at the headless pigeon in the gutter . |
| 11 | I avoided looking at the thermometer . |
| 12 | I wonder whether the same view would apply if Neil Young or Van Morrison came knocking at the door . ’ |
| 13 | The poor , sick , bereaved , came knocking at the door . |
| 14 | A small opportunity arose when Lizzie came knocking at the door for the ceremonial delivery of two silver-bound shoulder sprays , one , a gardenia , the other an orchid , and a card which said : From Robert . |
| 15 | So cos apparently , while he was on the phone she came knocking at the door then |
| 16 | ‘ I never ate looking at the back of somebody 's head before , ’ Goldie muses . |
| 17 | However , once he gets his base plan on paper , probably by September , he 's going to start making the rounds of vendors seeking their cooperation in getting all the plugs from device drives to protocols filled beginning at the desktop level . |
| 18 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |
| 19 | It can also revive memories of childhood tantrums and distress , locking oneself in the lavatory or bathroom and shutting out the adults who came battering at the door . |
| 20 | The firm organized catering at the Glasgow exhibition , the 1889 Paris exhibition , and then took over the catering at Olympia and the Crystal Palace . |
| 21 | She hated losing at the best of times but this was the worst . |
| 22 | As a result the standard of craftsmanship to be found in some and the level of enthusiasm in all of his regular students is extremely high and the range of instruments produced expanding at the time . |
| 23 | Charlie now found himself in front and began firing at the Germans as their heads popped up from behind the dug-outs . |
| 24 | The first batch of five coolies were flung face downward in the red dirt , and under the direction of the burly figure of Phat , half a dozen of his subordinates began lashing at the exposed soles of their bare feet . |
| 25 | For the sake of appearances , he picked up another brush and began swatting at the sleeves and lapels of his suit . |
| 26 | One night in bed I thought I heard knocking at the cottage door . |
| 27 | Frantically he began tearing at the small buttons that ran from her waist to the collar of her dark blouse . |
| 28 | I picked up a book , but put it down again and began looking at a tiny red spider on the leaf of a geranium , ad lost count of time . |
| 29 | Charged with the setting up of a central UK single professional register of nurses , midwives and health visitors , and mindful of its responsibilities for enhancing professional standards , the UKCC first began looking at the issue of mandatory refreshment for nurses and health visitors while still a shadow body in 1982 . |
| 30 | Only it was so hard to do that , especially when she began looking at the sketches she had made at Kenilworth . |