Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several older NCT children have started school this year so we sha n't be seeing them at Open Houses now … |
| 2 | Martin 's phoning me at eight o'clock . |
| 3 | It is a moment that is likely to reshape the strategic thinking of traditional , print-on-paper publishers , perhaps encouraging them at last to re-define their activities and participate more extensively in information media of all kinds . |
| 4 | Looking back on the decision a few years later , he interpreted it in these terms : " What I wanted was some counterweight to my changeable and restless inclinations , a science that could be pursued with cool impartiality , with cold logic , with regular work , without its results touching me at all deeply . " |
| 5 | Now you know the rules , set a good example to other drivers by using them at all times ; who knows , they may even copy your driving style and do it right too ! |
| 6 | Fear of side effects prevent a further 25 to 33 per cent using them at all . |
| 7 | ‘ You should n't be eating them at all . |
| 8 | These agents are toxic when given systemically , and so producing them at high concentration within the tumour is an attractive goal . |
| 9 | Even if someone believes the most secure and pernicious lies , he will not be able to help himself from doubting them at some time . |
| 10 | It 's this terrible pseudo-rational nagging by just carrying on normally , as if she were n't nagging me at all . |
| 11 | Toothed whales usually travel in pods and hunt fish and quid by pursuing them at high speed . |
| 12 | And Fleischmann received a fax from Harwell and learned that they were seeing nothing at all . |
| 13 | Similarly , we could postulate some alien being capable of seeing nothing at all in the range of wavelengths we call ‘ light ’ but able to see a whole range of colours in the ultraviolet or infrared . |
| 14 | Wooing first John and then Richard , Philip succeeded in keeping them at each other 's throats , or at Henry 's coat-tails , for several more years . |
| 15 | Technologically and economically it requires more explaining than is now possible , not least because of the loss or destruction or records , to say nothing of not keeping them at all . |
| 16 | Or do you not see any point in keeping them at all ? is the number to dial . |
| 17 | The Directive 's provisions are also so flexible , because of the difficulty in reaching a consensus among the member states and commentators , that there are grave doubts about whether there is any point in adopting them at all . |
| 18 | ‘ as if he only happens to be with us by accident and could just as easily be amusing himself at some other job elsewhere . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It 's nice to be here , ’ he replied with a composed smile , seating himself at last in one of the armchairs , as the woman arranged the tea things on a small table in front of them . |
| 20 | If your next-door neighbours insist on blasting you at all hours with Wagner 's Gottedammerung " , be thankful : it might have been Heavy Metal . |
| 21 | Faye had started painting her at eleven and was supposed to have had a blood glucose test at noon . |
| 22 | She unfolded the page of blue paper and focused on the letter instead , hardly understanding it at first reading . |
| 23 | Not only does the battered town seem to have been on the receiving end of a good deal of good , honest , no-nonsense coppering , but it gives the impression that a higher authority , God , must have passed over it in the Fifties , blasting it at close range with His celestial hair-drier , to judge from the universally blistered and leprous paintwork on all the buildings . |
| 24 | Second , the welfare state works as a kind of ‘ savings bank ’ , taking money at some points in each person 's life and returning it at another . |
| 25 | If you 're basing yourself at one campsite place an old groundsheet or plastic sheet under the tent . |
| 26 | You need to be far more dynamic at the front , launching yourself at all sorts of angles . |
| 27 | Er , very wary of those , really , and we 're not recommending them at all . |
| 28 | This was the last day of these services , and there is talk of reviving them at some time in the future but using modern Sprinter units . |
| 29 | A brand-new Tavern , redolent of fresh mortar and size , and fronting nothing at all , had taken for its sign The Rail way Arms ; but that might be rash enterprise — and then it hoped to sell drink to the workmen . |
| 30 | not hunting them at all ? |