Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transport facilities in Ayrshire were almost non-existent and many passengers disembarking at Ardrossan had to walk to their destinations . |
| 2 | The next plane was smaller still , which gave her a qualm or two , but the journey was correspondingly shorter , and in next to no time she was disembarking at Grand Cayman 's airport . |
| 3 | Our friend the Reverend G. M. Musgrave , disembarking at Boulogne a dozen years earlier , was much impressed by the French system : ‘ The contrivances for receiving , weighing , marking and paying for luggage were simple and excellent . |
| 4 | The state does not spare even essential services ; it is disconcerting for the Western traveller disembarking at Otopeni international airport to see technicians servicing a Tupolev by torchlight . |
| 5 | Also in April 1990 , six Sri Lankan Tamils were prevented by Egyptair staff from disembarking at Heathrow : in August 1990 , four Eritreans were prevented from leaving a Czechoslovak Airlines plane . |
| 6 | FOLLOWERS of Clive Brittain are once again marvelling at bookmakers ' largesse over their assessment of tomorrow 's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe . |
| 7 | They could often be seen leaning on farm-yard gates , chewing on straws and marvelling at Noddy 's turn of speed as he roared by in the slipstream of anything from a milk marketing board tanker to a Maserati ! |
| 8 | Helen , marvelling at Joyce 's capacity for self-protection , often wondered at her choice of career . |
| 9 | Harriet walked home wondering why she had not organised something of this sort before and marvelling at Mrs Rafferty 's complete acceptance of her own role in the community , one in which she obviously took it for granted that she herself had no need or right to ‘ a bit of a break ’ . |
| 10 | I look back at the old woman , marvelling at Enid and Philip for finding her interesting enough to talk about . |
| 11 | As tournament organisers were getting out their calculators , spectators were still marvelling at Ivanisevic 's superb performance . |
| 12 | Farrar s sentimentality may be excessive but we may envy his freedom to recognize and express childhood affection as well as childhood aggression ( ‘ I 'll kill you for that , ’ said Barker , leaping at Eric , and seizing him by the hair' ( ibid . |
| 13 | The dog ended the quarrel by leaping at Clare Evans , ripping open her face and neck . |
| 14 | In 1896 while sculling at Putney , an oarsman had been sunk by a stone-throwing youth , and in the following year there was a complaint that a yacht 's skylight had been broken at Lambeth Bridge and then ‘ a shower of horse dung greeted us at Chelsea ’ . |
| 15 | Gearing at 65% is too high , says chairman Sir Antony Pilkington . |
| 16 | Gearing at 3% , demonstrates astute husbandry of resources . |
| 17 | After assembling at Waddington , Sugar was flown to Bovington in Hertfordshire on February 10 to visit the US 8th Air Force Headquarters at High Wycombe , where the crew were warmly received , and then started its tour of the bases . |
| 18 | He had been drawn away to Newcastle by a false report but was now , unknown to the Jacobites , hurrying back towards them , while Carpenter 's subordinate , General Sir Charles Wills , another successful career soldier , spent 11 November assembling at Wigan , 15 miles [ 24 km ] away , the troops previously distributed all over Lancashire . |
| 19 | By taking the little branch line which had been built in the park of the palace of Saint Cloud , the imperial train could go around Paris and then rejoin the main line to the eastern frontier , where the army was assembling at Metz . |
| 20 | Peter Chapple-Hyam 's colt was virtually unopposed in the market , shortening up to 4–6 favourite after opening at evens . |
| 21 | Intel Corp shares were down sharply prior to the New York opening as investors reacted to the news : opening at $99 , they carried on down to $95.75 , off $14.25 from the $110 at the close on Friday . |
| 22 | Intel Corp shares were down sharply prior to the New York opening as investors reacted to the news : opening at $99 , they carried on down to $95.75 , off $14.25 from the $110 at the close on Friday . |
| 23 | Shakespeare Fever continues to grip the entire region , with King Lear at the Unity ; Measure For Measure opening at Chester Gateway this Friday ; Twelfth Night at the Playhouse from November 17 , and a presentation of the Sonnets at the Unity on November 17 and 18 . |
| 24 | Bagging experiments in Panama on Luehea seemanii ( Tiliaceae ) , which has ! lowers opening at night , suggestive of a nocturnal pollination syndrome , showed that diurnal visits by bees were responsible for higher numbers of fruits and seeds set . |
| 25 | Lepidoptera are frequent understorey pollinators as we have seen , butterflies by day and moths at night , e.g. within the family Chrysobalanaceae in Amazonia , butterflies visit Hirtella spp. ( flowers opening in the day , many with a showy appearance , usually pink or purple , stamens few ) whereas the related Couepia spp. are moth-pollinated ( flowers opening at night , few at a time , white , stamens numerous and more copious nectar ) . |
| 26 | THE Hooray Henleys regatta gift shop was robbed of its £2,000 stock two days after opening at Henley , Oxon . |
| 27 | I can answer that by telling you what happened to me during the Tencel plant opening at Mobile in December . |
| 28 | Comet opening at Festival Park ! |
| 29 | Comet are opening at Festival Park . |
| 30 | Most of the senior people in advertising today came through the media , through door banging at agencies to get a job in the traffic department , through the graphics department of the Belfast Art College , simply because there was no other education available . |