Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among those noting Xu 's habit of using just one board ( ingredients are so fresh and so quickly prepared that food poisoning is not considered a threat ) is Keith Mitchell , team captain of the British chefs competing at the culinary Olympics in Frankfurt next year , and head chef at the Grand Hotel , Eastbourne , East Sussex . |
| 2 | The different frequencies of light are what the human eye sees as different colors , with the lowest frequencies appearing at the red end of the spectrum and the highest frequencies at the blue end . |
| 3 | Robyn pursed her lips and tilted her chin , eyes flashing at the scathing tone of his voice . |
| 4 | He fingered his jaw thoughtfully , eyes glittering at the scarlet patches in her cheeks . |
| 5 | Bending , he feathered a kiss along her cheek , his cool lips pausing at the delicate curve of her ear . |
| 6 | the stratigraphic units subcropping at the top Carboniferous under a cover of younger sediments , |
| 7 | Luther Reynolds clenched the sides of the chair , his large fists curling and uncurling , and his fiery dark eyes glaring at the determined face of David Miller , the stepson he had come to resent with such bitterness that he could taste it . |
| 8 | Paramilitary border police patrolling the area fired tear gas into the crowds and stones were thrown in return ; some stones were thrown at Jews worshipping at the Western — or " Wailing " — Wall situated at the foot of the Temple Mount . |
| 9 | Flinging it wide , she made to thrust the other woman from the house , only to be brought up short by the sight of two gentlemen standing at the other end of the long covered porch . |
| 10 | But if it 's a world problem , if there are international dimensions to our problems in Britain , or to Kenya 's problems in Kenya , or to Mexico 's Mexican problems in Mexico , then somehow we 've got to have international groups looking at the international aspects of those problems . |
| 11 | This is the fourth in a series of articles looking at the forthcoming changes to community care |
| 12 | This is one of a series of articles looking at the forthcoming changes to community care |
| 13 | This is one of a series of articles looking at the forthcoming changes to community care |
| 14 | This is one of a series of articles looking at the forthcoming changes to community care |
| 15 | This is one of a series of articles looking at the forthcoming changes to community care |
| 16 | He , the laibon , had heard Fahfakhs shouting at the accused man in the cells at Ewaso Narok police post before he was taken to the coast . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , yes , you are , Laura , ’ he drawled softly , her limbs trembling at the hard , flat note of certainty in his voice . |
| 18 | A couple of minutes later , she heard footsteps approaching at the other end of the line . |
| 19 | In court , address all judges from the High Court upwards ( including both circuit judges and recorders when acting as High Court judges , and including also all judges sitting at the Central Criminal Courts ) as ‘ my Lord/Lady . ’ |
| 20 | She snatched at the strings of her apron , fingers fretting at the lumpy knot in the small of her back . |
| 21 | When she arched finally , feeling him convulse with a groan between joy and pain , she was swept by waves of pride at the gift that had been given and received , her fingers pulling at the thick dark hair , pushing possessively over the muscles of his back , sliding down the sweat-soaked hollows of his spine to the tight muscles slackening in the aftermath of love . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The SAM molecules bind to the faces of the repressors , remote from the DNA , with their positively charged sulphur atoms lying at the carboxy termini of the B helices , as in the holorepressor structure . |
| 24 | Symptoms were regarded as mere signposts pointing at the real target . |
| 25 | They claimed to be grass cutters working at the nearby golf course . |
| 26 | Contrary to reports in Paris last week , government investigators working at the central police laboratory here have ruled out the presence of the Czechoslovak-made explosive Semtex , which caused the Lockerbie disaster . |
| 27 | Every year the New York New Music Seminar seems to throw up one track which first flattens the delegates revelling at the local hot-spots , then sends the record companies into chequebook-brandishing overdrive . |
| 28 | Spotting the publisher delegates blanching at the very idea , he added , reassuringly : ‘ In the US the publishers price to cope with the secondhand market , and with discounting too . |
| 29 | CACI are also able to build more advanced studies looking at the specific market sectors that a client may be interested in . |
| 30 | There have been few studies looking at the sexual risk of HIV infection for women who have sex with women and so there are few reported cases of women infected in this way . |