Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paige said quickly , heart thumping at the very idea . |
| 2 | The ad shows a crook gazing at the busty , mini-skirted girls and asks : ‘ Who 's giving your bag the eye ? ’ |
| 3 | His plan was based on the marine lieutenant landing at the Old Quay slipway in the North Harbour and creating a diversion there , while Jones himself landed , undetected it was hoped , on the south foreshore , put the battery there out of action and then , passing round the town , knocked out the North Battery , before joining up with the other party to burn the shipping in both harbours . |
| 4 | The practitioner travels in all directions , executing various movements , with the final technique ending at the very point where he began . |
| 5 | There had been a revolt in Alexandria and the Caliph 's army , Mowbray 's group amongst them , had massed outside the city : the air thick with the beat of their kettledrums , the wind snapping at the huge green banners , and the silver crescents on the standards dazzling in the scorching sunlight . |
| 6 | There had been a cancellation so two seats would be available on a Tarom flight five days hence with a Romanian Automobile Club hire car waiting at the other end . |
| 7 | Cambridge were left high and dry for a time this afternoon as Oxford followed in the footsteps of many a champion boxer and left the opposition waiting at the official weigh-in . |
| 8 | Nobody could expect you to think up anything as stupid as a dumb movie actress aiming at the front page . ’ |
| 9 | Then you tell the story of the murder and the subsequent investigation , adroitly working in the fact that there was a red light shining at the vital time and place , using one of the ways of tricking your reader into " noticing and not noticing " this that we looked at in the previous chapter , and you also harp like mad on the impossibility of a person in a black dress or suit having been on hand at the moment the murder was committed . |
| 10 | They 're useful in surgery to keep blood flowing at the right speed and sucking old blood from re-attached parts so new blood flows in quickly . |
| 11 | Chest x ray showed evidence of previous tuberculosis and some pleural thickening at the left base , which was thought likely to be long standing ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 12 | Finally , computed tomography of the chest showed pleural thickening at the left lung base in an area corresponding to that previously noted on a chest x ray ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Then we had a Highway Code-cum-driving practice test and a 30-minute test on everything from dirt roads to motorways , which was partly an economy test driving at the maximum safe speed . |
| 14 | The the Council looking at the whole process of how it spends it money what it does , I think the theatre the start of this evening we were looking quite close about what we do and how we do it what we do n't do and what we should do and I think from what 's been said this evening will be re look closely the questions you 've raised things that you 've raised we 'll report it back to you in the hope of this meeting that we 'll actually moved forward because I think it 's in everybody interest everybody 's interest if the playhouse closes . |
| 15 | Right , what what we 'll do is I mean we can confuse the Chow test looking at the residual sum of squares er from each of these sums as the regressions on sub samples , comparing them with the residual sum of squares on a regressionary of the whole sample and the computer will actually do it for us . |
| 16 | I woke up after an hour or so , and just leaned out of the window looking at the half-empty Main Street . |
| 17 | This protectiveness has been especially strong in Sian , as before we got here there was an ‘ incident ’ in which an Australian girl teaching at the Foreign Language Institute was attacked and injured ( a fractured scull ) by a son of one of the workers who worked in the Institute . |
| 18 | Residents in Saltburn have sent more than 50 letters to Langbaurgh council protesting at the planned closure of the town lavatories . |
| 19 | Revised proposals are expected from the Commission later this year , before they are put back for a second reading at the European Parliament . |
| 20 | A diplomat working at the military attaché 's office in Ankara , the Turkish capital , was seriously injured on Oct. 16 , 1989 , when a bomb exploded in his car . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | She could see her father , foolish in his pride , and the rich gentleman of her mother 's imagination laughing at the poor Durbeyfield family . |
| 23 | We spent most of that first day walking around the town looking at the historical buildings some of which had been there since the mid-sixteenth century . |
| 24 | Frances Collier 's detailed studies show a skilled group living at the advancing edge of technology yet who were largely able to offset the falling piece rates thus entailed by greater output . |
| 25 | Easily Accessible : The village of Raskelf is a rural community lying at the northern end of the Vale of York , a few miles from the Hambleton Hills which form the southern edge of the North York Moors . |
| 26 | Nice , quiet bed , with a cool , cotton pillow for my throbbing brow and a playful breeze puffing at the open window , lifting its frilly skirt like a peeping Tom . |
| 27 | Downwardly sticky wages gives a J shape to the curve , labelled , with the curve beginning at the existing price level . |
| 28 | For instance if If the last number is omitted or there are insufficient characters to the right of the specified position , MID$ returns with the right hand part of the string starting at the specified position . |
| 29 | Reginald remained in the middle of the room staring at the closed door for a moment ; then , his head making small jerks , he turned towards the fire and , leaning his elbow along the mantelshelf , he looked down into the dying embers . |
| 30 | She 'd spent last Wednesday evening drinking at the Royal Legion Club in Swindon Town Centre . |