Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] at the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | An enterprising firm of potters anywhere in the Province could supply batches of their wares , so crates of vessels arriving at the quartermasters ' stores could have come from any available source . |
| 2 | In the middle of the crowd — people arriving , people leaving , lost children , tannoy announcements , people queueing at the cashiers ' grilles , checking the airport shops , lugging their cases into the restaurants … in the middle of all that , Culley looked for someone special . |
| 3 | ODDEST sight of the week : top Tory ‘ mandarin ’ Allan Clarke giggling at the readers ' tips in Viz : ‘ Taxi drivers , why not pop into your local garage and have your indicators fixed then the rest of us would know where you 're going … |
| 4 | Outside , there were the usual hospital sounds — ambulant patients moving about the ward in slippers , nurses talking at the nurses ' station , the distant squeaking wheel of a cleaner 's trolley — but in here it was very quiet . |
| 5 | A nineteenth-century drunkard sobbing at the penitents ' bench found no less an ‘ answer ’ in the cross of Christ than the twentieth-century philosopher with his carefully articulated questions . |