Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Insert split rings along each tape , spacing them at an equal distance apart , at a distance to equal twice the depth of the bottom pelmet starting at lath channel . |
| 2 | He 's amusing himself at a dull time of year , and being here without his womenfolk , but he 's as adroit at calming the storm as he is at raising it . |
| 3 | Ellie cried , as she saw Mike hurling himself at the unprepared Patsy . |
| 4 | ‘ He has no manners , eats like a peasant , talks like he needs salt on his marrow , and is as free with his smile as a tinker cheating you at a fair on a saint 's day . |
| 5 | Accounting for the use of this form in any context will always imply relating the particular meaning actualized in the context to the permanent potential significate postulated for it in tongue , and will consequently involve : ( 1 ) showing that the common denominator of a before/after sequence is present ( the constant element evoked by to ) , and ( 2 ) showing how the speaker has fit the particular experience he is talking about into this potential by intercepting the operation of actualizing it at the appropriate moment ( the variable element expressed by to ) . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're sending it and keeping it at the same time ? ’ |
| 7 | The Eskimos of Alaska were collecting amber and trading it at the late summer fair held at Kotzebue on the north-west coast down to recent times . |
| 8 | In the final stages of the peace-making at Utrecht in 1713 the representatives of the different powers avoided many of the difficulties and delays which had marked earlier such conferences by entering the meeting-place in the town hall pêle-mêle ( i.e. in no particular order ) and then seating themselves at a round table which had no head . |
| 9 | They turned on the newly arrived Marines in surprise , and yet with considerable ferocity , hurling themselves at the armed men , who coolly gunned them down , their machetes being no match for rifles . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh God , ’ I replied , launching myself at the Moroccan fabric , ‘ he has n't blown the gaff on my war wound , has he ? |
| 11 | Both men also received annuities of 1,000 marks , which went some considerable way towards endowing them at a level appropriate to their rank . |
| 12 | Harvey was there in a red-coat uniform , smiling and doing his neat little dances and pretending to drop plates and saving them at the last minute , and the girls were saying ‘ Ooo ’ and slyly studying each other 's hairdos and shoes . |
| 13 | Replacing them at a familial level , the spice-box has taken its place , sometimes simple , sometimes ornate ; a witness to the fragrance of that Sabbath grace that lingers still . |
| 14 | If I forgive you for being male and cruel and unreasonable , you must forgive me for being female and for carrying another man 's child and wanting you at the same time . |
| 15 | All the other times were just a way of reminding myself of the realities and provoking you at the same time . |
| 16 | I love you … ’ she heard herself whispering , one detached part of her intellect aghast at the vulnerable openness of her confession , surprising her at the same time with the shocking truth . |
| 17 | A group of kids are on a roundabout , one foot on and one foot off , they are pushing it at a giddy speed , round and around until their faces form a single banded blur . |
| 18 | informal rejection or acceptance of the planning proposal , without expressing it at a formal level |
| 19 | Dana had not appeared for the promised fitting or for the rehearsal , excusing herself at the last minute because Roman had wanted her for alterations to one of the outfits she was to wear . |
| 20 | It is her ambition to be tried for her life for murdering a small tobacconist with a meat-cleaver , only to be dramatically cleared when her alibi is established by the bishop who was confirming her at the very moment of the crime . |
| 21 | Other examples in the Renaissance include the malcontent who haunts the very power structure which has alienated him , seeking reinscription within it but at the same time demystifying it , operating within and subverting it at the same time ; the revengers whose actions constitute an even more violent bid for reinscription within the very society which has alienated and dispossessed them ; the assertive women , the ‘ women on top ’ described by Natalie Zemon Davis who simultaneously appropriate , exploit , and undermine masculine discourse . |
| 22 | This is achieved by holding down the fire button until the meter below the energy bar reaches maximum , then releasing it at the right moment . |
| 23 | The agendas for the above 3 meetings will be issued in due course , but it is not intended that the reports should be circulated again ; spare copies of the reports are available for members , by telephoning me at the undernoted extension . |
| 24 | Assessments of the permissible level of incidental catch should be based on the desirability of returning dolphin stocks to original levels , not holding them at a depleted level through a continuation of a high level of incidental kill . |
| 25 | I would n't get the opportunity to find out who else was calling me at the same time . |
| 26 | The gulls can see the help and benefit they receive from Iago 's service , but can not see , or conceive , that Iago could be benefiting himself at the same time ; and no one could possibly see that Iago is in fact benefiting himself by destroying them . |
| 27 | One instant he had been in mid-spring , forelegs extended and jaws agape , aiming himself at the crouching man-thing before them , the next , the target had moved with blurring speed , rising swiftly to meet him head-on . |
| 28 | Everybody has them and something must be holding you at a given height above the ground ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Is your sister expecting you at a specific time ? ’ asked Penry when they were on the way to Haverfordwest at last . |
| 30 | Diluting it and mixing in it into slurry lagoons or spreading it at a low rate on grassland was a method used in the past , but even that may not be possible now . |