Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [v-ing] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A suspicion kept niggling at the back of her mind , but she kept pushing it away as more than she could deal with . |
| 2 | MOURNERS ran for their lives as a funeral car hurtled towards them after the driver slumped dying at the wheel . |
| 3 | Furthermore , the graph on page 44 shows that homelessness has become an ever-increasing feature of the Tory years , Homelessness began to hit home in a big way when the property-owning democracy started suffering at the hands of the repo-man . |
| 4 | The firm organized catering at the Glasgow exhibition , the 1889 Paris exhibition , and then took over the catering at Olympia and the Crystal Palace . |
| 5 | Now the big man finished gnawing at the bone and tossed it into the grass , smiling ruefully . |
| 6 | The creative ferment set going at the beginning of the decade had petered out , as directors like Reisz and Richardson lost their sense of direction . |
| 7 | Junior environment minister found careering at the wheel after midnight during the Tory party conference in Bournemouth . |
| 8 | Standard started looking at the possibilities of EAP back in 1990 when the financial industry was going through a period of great change . |
| 9 | Dad stood looking at the flat in disgust . |
| 10 | That is the equivalent of a clock set running at the time of the dinosaurs having gained or lost less than a second by today . |
| 11 | His mother followed screaming at the boy to stop , but he was too incensed to hear her . |