Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small mammal faunas in the fossil record provide one of the principal methods of interpreting the ecology or habitat existing at the time the fossils were preserved . |
| 2 | Seeing Joseph staring at the women , Paul walked over to him and put an arm around his shoulder . |
| 3 | It is most unlikely that a mother or father looking at a new-born child will be saying : — ‘ We have here a potential villain , who could , in a few years time be getting a living by robbery , violence or some other criminal activity . |
| 4 | The small Year Niner usually looks a bit blank — possibly because she has never considered the possibility of either heaven OR hell lying at the foot of the ropes in the sports hall — and responds with a vague , ‘ Uh ? ’ |
| 5 | Valuable experience can be gained in small agencies anywhere because you may have to turn your hand to any job that needs doing at a given moment . |
| 6 | Remembering that impulses arriving at a synapse can be either stimulatory or inhibitory , it is easy to imagine wiring diagrams that would have this effect . |
| 7 | Arafat went on to urge the world to take action to halt " the massacre Israel is currently committing against the Palestinian people in Rafah " ( a town and camp lying at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip ) . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , the remaining males carried on displaying wildly — Fitz and Rousseau remaining at a distance , and only Kendo daring to charge right over the scrum — all to no avail . |
| 9 | She tried to look at the thing calmly and sensibly , tried not to be aware of Deana and Sarah whispering at a table only a few yards distant , but felt too hurt and shocked to be rational . |
| 10 | A point of typographical interest is that the printers of broadside notices and ballads continued to use the old ‘ black letter ’ or Gothic founts of type long after they had been discarded in favour of the Roman letter for printed books ; so that many of them can take us back in spirit and atmosphere to the Gutenberg Bible and Caxton working at the Sign of the Red Pale in Westminster . |
| 11 | But she and Jonathon should be back at school and Victoria starting at the village junior and mixed infants democratically this term . |
| 12 | K-Swiss continue the theme of protection , support and stability with its Grancourt Gstaad tennis shoe , again a shoe for both men and women which is constructed by combining sock lasting in the fore part and board lasting at the heel to support and stabilise the foot . |
| 13 | This service provides delivery by a Post Office messenger for letters and packets arriving at a delivery office on the next working day after posting but too late for normal delivery on that day . |
| 14 | They have started a petition which has already gathered 450 signatures from residents of Ferryhill and drivers calling at the garage . |
| 15 | Not even the British could stomach the sight of the King and Queen arriving at a Coronation in separate carriages . |
| 16 | A journey to the heartland of today 's Ireland , Jiving at the Crossroads cuts to the core of the unresolved struggles that haunt the Irish psyche — between the past and the present , between the urban and the rural — creating a unique insight into the dilemmas faced by a whole generation born since de Valera 's vision of comely lads and lasses dancing at the crossroads . |
| 17 | In the kitchen she found Veronica cooking and Rodney sitting at the table writing a list . |
| 18 | This could result in the blind and pleats falling at an angle to the window . |
| 19 | At the corner of Bowyers Row they stood aside as a huge , wooden wagon rolled by , pulled by four horses , their manes hogged , eyes blinkered and nostrils flaring at the corrupting smell of death . |
| 20 | Whatever they may have told the pollsters , there must have been countless voters who , as they finally confronted their choice , saw in their mind 's eye the image of a beaming Neil and Glenys standing at the door of Number 10 , and thought , dammit — prompting them to switch back to that decent , straightforward , reliable Mr Major . |
| 21 | The same is true in the slow movement — listen to the meltingly beautiful oboe and string playing at the start . |
| 22 | We talked for a while , and then my parents , surprisingly tactfully , murmured things about shopping and left me and Anna sitting at the little round table , under the blue umbrella . |
| 23 | The temperatures in the holds of ships in the tropics can be very high and goods standing at the dockside in tropical ports may be subjected to very high temperatures . |
| 24 | Both driver and staff working at the operating centre need to be fully conversant with effective maintenance procedures . |
| 25 | There were large noses sticking into the lens , and people waving at the camera . |
| 26 | Myra Breckenridge , the sizzling exposure of sex in Hollywood by Gore Vidal had just made its appearance in London , along with Norman Mailer 's The Armies of the Night , about the invasion of the White House the previous October of pacifists and hippies protesting at the war . |
| 27 | During 1845 no less than £45 : 0s. : 0d. was spent on slating and floor flagging at the Forge Cottages , which suggests the ground floors might originally have been earth — common enough . |
| 28 | The families and friends waiting at the airport saw the plane break from a cloud at about 700 feet and make its final descent . |
| 29 | As a songwriter and musician himself , Terry Merrick is always prepared to act as more than just an engineer , where necessary putting his skill at playing and song arranging at the disposal of clients . |
| 30 | At 91 years of age , has just taken up painting water colours and choir singing at a local day centre in his home town of Hull . |