Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pers pn] [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm really excited about seeing them live at Wembley . ’ |
| 2 | An electric blanket is also useful for keeping you warm at night |
| 3 | An electric blanket is also useful for keeping you warm at night , but remember that for reasons of safety nearly all electric blankets ( with the exception of some modern overblankets ) need to be switched off before you go to bed . |
| 4 | Instead of buying them aftershave at Christmas , their eyes lit up at enormous , giftwrapped , tubs of Swarfega . |
| 5 | And if Angel did not want to become a priest , what was the use of sending him to study at Cambridge ? |
| 6 | ‘ The Sunderland lads have the consolation of knowing they played at Wembley . |
| 7 | The infant retrieves , or witnesses the retrieval of an object from behind A ( say ) three times , after which he watches as the experimenter moves it to place B. On seeing it vanish at B he will go straight back to A. Although the back-to-A error is more likely to be made the longer the delay between hiding at B and allowing search , this is not a memory problem in any simple sense because the infant will return to A even if the object remains visible at B. We find a particularly clear demonstration of this kind of ‘ perseveration ’ in an experiment by Paul Harris in which there were two transparent , lockable boxes as the A and the B location . |
| 8 | ‘ When I think , ’ he said happily , ‘ that I , Pumblechook , was able to help in my small way , by taking you to play at Miss — ’ |