Example sentences of "[adv prt] [v-ing] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack recently told us the plot of a 1951 Jane Wyman movie called The Blue Veil and we both broke down sobbing at the same point of the story and sobbed for minutes . |
| 2 | Appearing on the tape proved too much of a millstone for most bands and The Wedding Present were the only ones that carried on developing at a reasonable pace . |
| 3 | If Dreadnought went on sinking at the present rate , in ten minutes the hole would n't be above the waterline , but below . |
| 4 | A girl who is very tall for her age may fear that she will go on growing at the same rate indefinitely , while a boy who is shorter than his mates of the same age may be afraid that he will be permanently undersized . |
| 5 | In that case , shopkeepers and manufacturers might be prepared to drop their profit margins , absorb the tax and go on selling at the same price . |
| 6 | It made him feel grown up sitting at the same table as real university students ; engineers and agricultural science students , law or medicine , they had all sat and studied around the Hegarty dining table while young Frank was working for his Intermediate and his Leaving Certificate . |
| 7 | Uma Thurman stars as a hitch-hiker who ends up working at a pansexual beauty ranch , where she joins fellow workers in rebelling against the owners and their male-servicing feminine hygiene products . |
| 8 | I do n't suppose old Pope Leo the Tenth sat around gazing at the latest thing he 'd just commissioned from Michelangelo , for instance . |
| 9 | Town made all the running … but they kept on falling at the final hurdle in front of goal … |
| 10 | did you carry on working at the same place ? |