Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [v-ing] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat for hours staring at the sea . |
| 2 | As his appointment preceded the 1932 Adult Education Regulations , Lee was not an Article 11 tutor but represented the new regional policy for provision developing at the Cambridge Board , which included the 1930 appointment of Harold Shearman as its tutor in Bedfordshire , and W. P. Baker in Cambridgeshire the following year . |
| 3 | Most current schemes of assessment for lower-attainers existing at the time the report was written , concentrated on computational skills . |
| 4 | Also during this year Captain H.M. Williams was selected to command the 1 st Bucks team of sixty men , to compete for a prize offered by Lord Wantage for field firing at the Home Counties Brigade Camp at Churn , and of this team ( which won the competition ) thirty-two were Wolverton men . |
| 5 | Through Easter coaching at The oval during the 1930s , at the hands of Alan Peach , and winter attendance at the Sandham-Gover indoor school , he improved his game , and first played for Surrey II when 20 . |
| 6 | Police have said there was evidence of drug taking at the £17-a-head event , including discarded packets of white powder and some cannabis resin , but there were no arrests for drugs . |
| 7 | Some early maps of this type show , albeit crudely , the kinds of houses existing at the time of drafting , and it is possible to appreciate the difference between the houses of , say , the more well-to-do freeholder and the lowlier tenant . |
| 8 | I was recently filming there with the BBC 's Country File and we spoke to some local farmers who said there were often queues of cyclists waiting at the start of the route for 5pm to come . |
| 9 | Within a few hours I noticed a large number of fry appearing at the water surface . |
| 10 | An enterprising firm of potters anywhere in the Province could supply batches of their wares , so crates of vessels arriving at the quartermasters ' stores could have come from any available source . |
| 11 | Claudia lay sleepless , visions of Dana jiving at the head of the bridal procession , dressed in shorts and a veil instead of the lovely dress Claudia had spent so much time designing , going through her head . |
| 12 | That 's the verdict of a European wide panel of judges looking at the entries to a special competition commemorating European Tourism Year . |
| 13 | 1.3 ‘ Net receipts ’ means payments due and actually paid and received by the Publisher arising from the sale or exploitation of the Video and converted into sterling at the current rate of exchange existing at the date of receipt in the United Kingdom |
| 14 | 1.3 ‘ Net receipts ’ means payments due and actually paid and received by the Publisher arising from the sale or exploitation of the Video and converted into sterling at the current rate of exchange existing at the date of receipt in the United Kingdom |
| 15 | , Robert ( 1639–1720 ) , mason and architect , was baptized in June 1639 at Raunds , Northamptonshire , the son of Edward and Mary Grumbold , and was a member of a family of masons originating at the quarry villages of Raunds and Weldon which was active in the Northamptonshire area over several generations . |
| 16 | Shigeru Tokinoya , who was in charge of textbook screening at the time Professor Ienaga 's book was banned , said : ‘ All of our corrections should have been upheld … |
| 17 | It would be misleading to imply that there were only three strata of funeral existing at the end of the sixteenth century — monarchial , noble and guild ; what one had depended entirely on one 's status . |
| 18 | Not a bad experience , because there was an Englishman with Erlich 's name on a sheet of cardboard waiting at the entrance to Immigration . |
| 19 | In Cardiff a team from the Department of Town Planning at the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology under the direction of Professors Michael Batty and Neil Wrigley will work together with colleagues from the statistics group at the University of Bath and the South West Universities Computer Centre to develop demonstration projects for Wales and South West England . |
| 20 | Although BL did attempt to operate a modified and simplified system of group working at the Metro plant , they did not , despite the visit to Trollhatten , either use the line-out system or make extensive use of carousels . |
| 21 | There was a lot of evidence accumulating at the time about lateralization of function in bird brains — for instance , it appears that chicks respond behaviourally in different ways when they view things with left and right eyes , while in song birds like canaries and zebra finches , the ‘ song centre ’ is located in a left-hemisphere region , rather close to our IMHV . |
| 22 | The requirement to take ‘ all practicable measures ’ involves more than taking reasonable care : it means doing what is feasible in the light of the state of knowledge existing at the time of the alleged breach of duty , thus knowledge as to the availability of abatement methods and the likelihood of the dust or fumes to cause injury or offence is relevant.l |
| 23 | For those judgements , the reader must consult either the entries in the exhibition catalogue written by Sarah Whitfield and discussing nearly 170 works of art showing at the Hayward Gallery and the participating museums in the United States , or David Sylvester 's monograph , the result of many years of rumination on his subject . |
| 24 | It is also recorded that in the early 18th century ‘ Edwin Calvert , gentleman , apparently died of alcohol poisoning at the age of 17 ’ . |
| 25 | In the US the Carnegie Foundation has established a Centre for the Study of Societal Ageing at the University of Michigan . |
| 26 | The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year . |
| 27 | The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year . |
| 28 | She walked into the kitchen , humming tunelessly under her breath , only to stop in her tracks at the sight of Dane standing at the cooker . |
| 29 | This project aims to carry out a study of policy thinking at the elite level in Britain and America . |
| 30 | At the door of the Registrar 's office was a long line of people ending at the desk where the Officer 's clerk sat drinking tea and lording it over the supplicants . |