Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [noun] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DOPE grower Ronald Jenkins was fined yesterday for cultivating cannabis at the age of 71 . |
| 2 | Welcomed by women of almost all ages as comfortable and a declaration of female sexuality , the short skirt suit with power dressing shoulder-padded jacket was simply the best for oozing confidence at the office . |
| 3 | Welcomed by women of almost all ages as comfortable and a declaration of female sexuality , the short skirt suit with power dressing shoulder-padded jacket was simply the best for oozing confidence at the office . |
| 4 | Her intervention — after dismissing reports at the weekend that she would be standing for the deputy leadership — will be seen as an attempt to block Mr Gould 's bid for the post . |
| 5 | She was last seen alive on Tuesday evening after calling time at the pub she managed for Warrington-based Walker 's Brewery , |
| 6 | Bingo player Bob Gladstone is hoping to start his own business after scooping £3,279 at the game . |
| 7 | Mr Brown was arrested by Saudi religious police two weeks after beginning work at the hospital in February . |
| 8 | He built up Dixons , with sales last year of over £1.7 billion , after starting work at the age of 16 with his father 's portrait photography business . |
| 9 | WILD rockers Skid Row were banned from a club in Peterborough , Canada , after throwing condoms at the crowd . |
| 10 | It was 5 a.m. when I hit the M1 after leaving Lee at the flat and dropping Max off at his pub , and was quite tired when I reached the cottage at around 7.30 this morning . |
| 11 | Two days after leaving Angel at the Foundling Hospital Sarah returned to work at the house in Newcastle Place . |
| 12 | I was sightseeing after leaving Cobalt at the café . |
| 13 | In such models the problematic taxa are further and separate derivatives , useful for documenting the range of metazoan morphospace but irrelevant for establishing relationships at the base of metazoan evolution . |
| 14 | — For valuing stocks at the end of the accounting period . |
| 15 | The video would show activities undertaken during a typical school day , including lunch times and break times , the routines for meeting children at the end of the day , introduce the staff and the chair of governors and the chair of the parents ' association . |
| 16 | There is widespread suspicion that the two firms , along with the rest of the nuclear industry , were appalled by the revelations about operating methods at the power station that had already been given in testimony . |
| 17 | Why did n't we do the foul deed there , rather than risk facing a rugby team of accusing fingers at the inquest ? |
| 18 | When his trial opened on May 26 he had been charged with complicity in genocide , and the presiding judge had only substituted the lesser charge of instigating murder at the moment of reaching a verdict . |
| 19 | The lover 's eventual notion of seeking death at the hand of his lady ( movement 9 : E minor ) is dispelled by a few bars for ‘ Violons ’ and continuo , reminiscent of the quiet opening movements , but in a slower tempo . |
| 20 | Kendall , who confirmed that Sunderland had made an inquiry for Tony Cottee , was delighted that his side 's performance spared Everton the potential embarrassment of replacing Forest at the foot of the Premier League table . |
| 21 | Plants , real or plastic , if used , should be planted towards the back of the aquascape , leaving plenty of swimming space at the front for the more active fish . |
| 22 | While the actual form of SATs is liable to change , the process of testing pupils at the age of 11 is unlikely to do so . |
| 23 | He is not getting the best of scoring service at the moment … he s being used as the target . |
| 24 | Try to break the habit of adding salt at the table , if necessary using a low sodium salt substitute . |
| 25 | As minister , he issued instructions to vignerons on the advantages of adding sugar at the time of pressing and it was the vignerons of the more northerly winemaking regions , like Champagne , who benefited the most . |
| 26 | Fears were expressed by puritan divines that to thirst after natural knowledge was to run the risk of elevating reason at the expense of faith . |
| 27 | These entries related to royal debts assigned to Elijah by way of compensation for debts pardoned by the Crown in favour of the abbey of Stratford , and the alterations allegedly had the effect of enriching Elijah at the Crown 's expense . |
| 28 | Profits and earnings per share were down ( the former by 16% at pretax level , and the latter by 22% ) — primarily because of restructuring costs at the oil services business , which just broke even , and because of falling profits from fine china and investment banking . |
| 29 | And the council also faces spending limitations because of the cost of renewing masonry at the Dolphin Centre . |
| 30 | The motion followed a debate on the conduct of the Yugoslav delegation at the London conference , during which nationalist and ex-communist deputies had accused Panic 's delegation of betraying Serbia at the conference . |