Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] at [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andy the gardener was standing around on the lower terrace looking at some white geraniums he had set out in an urn by the pool house , and although she shrank from returning to the scene of yesterday 's shame , she decided to go and rap with him . |
| 2 | This principle states that transformations apply cyclically , and that later transformations , in tinkering with the transforms already produced , deal with them as completed units undergoing at most peripheral changes in this later re-arrangement . |
| 3 | The police say the best they could do with the car travelling at such high speeds was to keep track of it . |
| 4 | The female still lay there , watery eyes staring at some remote distance from which she waited to be recalled . |
| 5 | " Well , Indonesia chickens fly — look ! " he said , accelerating towards a group of hens pecking at some minor accident on the road ahead . |
| 6 | These are examples of synchronic analysis : slicing through the relationships obtaining at any one time in the social-cultural formation . |
| 7 | I remember we sat there all afternoon looking at that wonderful picture and planning our poem in our heads . |
| 8 | Now the Berlin wall is coming down , and with the two Germanies uniting at this very point , the big question is — what to do with the bunker ? |
| 9 | Lorries will be observing three different limits and coaches going at another different speed . |
| 10 | three quarters of those are fee earning at any one time . |
| 11 | Constance watched Ludo and Gioella laughing at some private joke , and hated them both . |
| 12 | There must then and there be in existence a legal person having a legal right and another legal person having at that very time a corresponding legal duty . |
| 13 | You get gobble-eyed looking at all those dockets . |
| 14 | The micro-instructions provided for writing interpreters manipulate a number of general-purpose processor registers and function boxes ( which produce various functions of two input arguments , such as the binary sum , or the logical disjunction ) , and access variable-length operands in main store starting at any desired bit address . |
| 15 | Up to 114 trains running at any one time — Intercity , modern diesels , freight trains , overhead electrics and occasionally , the Orient Express and Royal Train . |
| 16 | While most people worry about paying the mortgage in the event of unemployment , a serious accident or illness prevents more than 2. million people working at any one time , contributing to around million days of work lost per year . |
| 17 | By the time of the Thera eruption in 1470 BC , most of the burials were in small tombs holding at most four members of a family . |
| 18 | McAllister , happily unaware of who made up the party , watched these inhabitants of the world in which she had lived since she was eight years old stare and chatter as they made their way through the doorway , Mr Sands bowing and scraping at them as befitted a poor relation to whom they were doing a favour , the rest of the bazaar 's patrons staring at these strange beings , male and female , as though they were visitors from another planet , perhaps one described by Mr H. G. Wells . |
| 19 | Imagine firstly that we have a demand for bank lending at some level set by the rate of interest charged on that lending , other conditions for the moment being given . |
| 20 | Maggie taunted , the devil getting into her , a peculiar excitement rising at this subtle duel . |
| 21 | Virginia blinked into space , her brain reeling at this unexpected line of information . |
| 22 | Something crossed very bad time looking at that brief picture , who would n't you invite to a group training session on skill six ? |