Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basically it 's no different from staying at the hotel . ’ |
| 2 | If , on the other hand , there are readers who are more interested in laughing at the past than in understanding it ; if they find disease and human suffering good for a giggle as well ; if they think that a sort of free association of ideas is a good substitute for historical explanation ; and if they are unperturbed by gross defects of style and grammar , then they will enjoy Andrew Nikiforuk 's The Fourth Horseman : A Short History of Epidemics , Plagues and Other Scourges . |
| 3 | 3 x Festuca glauca The blue fescue makes neat hummocks of steely , grey-blue grass , and is ideal for planting at the front of borders . |
| 4 | Do you think that was an attitude to that was erm unique to nursing at the time or do you think erm that possibly girls in other walks of life had the same kind of experience of discipline and demands on them ? |
| 5 | ‘ In the past , ’ he said as he returned to Robbie 's side , ‘ she 's been accustomed to sleeping at the foot of my bed . |
| 6 | There was also a form of opposition to perestroika that stemmed from outdated patterns of thinking and the self-interest of those who had become used to living at the expense of others . |
| 7 | In fact , the chemistry on the earth is rather special — it 's the sort of chemistry we 're used to doing at the temperature on the earth in the conditions that occur on the earth , but interspatial space the conditions are quite different and so , in fact , it turns out the chemistry is different , and so also we find that there are molecules that we do n't expect . |
| 8 | But can I just answer that because hopefully we do we do try to listen and we try to give you what information you 're capable of taking at the time . |
| 9 | The left-sided winger provided the width and penetration normally supplied by Eoin Jess and Scott Booth , but Aberdeen are far from convincing at the moment . |
| 10 | Such excursions spelled glamour and excitement for Fergie , something that the duke seemed incapable of providing at the time . |
| 11 | A driver on cIte Nullarbor for 38 years , Coad was squint-eyed from staring at the track . |
| 12 | But Galtung concludes that the main problem is that the target of loyalty , which is the family , is ill-adapted to operating at the level on which new institutions will emerge . |
| 13 | Nor would he accept that he should work out the sum due by looking at the cost of providing a type of car which Mr Shove ‘ might reasonably be expected to acquire in his present circumstances ’ . |
| 14 | Lord Taylor said Richens had explained he was carrying the sheath knife , used in the killing , to reassure Sabrina , who had been frightened about staying at the flat since Choi raped her . |
| 15 | Researchers within the tradition of accommodation theory have been most active in looking at the detail of " monolingual " interactions in an attempt to see exactly what it is that speakers are doing . |