Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [v-ing] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the ornate portal of a mansion-block department store an old man with buttoned overcoat and brown burnished shoes stood talking at the rain . |
| 2 | Days spent staring at the wall . |
| 3 | A spokesman confirmed that they probably come from the Bremen Kunstverein , from which fifty paintings , 1,715 drawings and 3,000 prints went missing at the end of the war , and that experts are still examining them . |
| 4 | If our jobless levels keep rising at the rate they have since the general election , then the north-east of Scotland may start to feel like the north-east of England . |
| 5 | The redshanks go fighting at the change of the wind . |
| 6 | The rapid acceleration of house prices during the late 1980s ( which received added impetus from the rush by house buyers to beat the ending of multiple mortgage tax relief in August 1988 ) meant that highly geared first-time buyers were especially vulnerable when interest rates began rising during 1988 , and their exposure increased when house prices began falling at the end of 1989 . |
| 7 | and then his friends come knocking at the door , you coming out to play football Rhys ? |
| 8 | Well when the Jehovah 's and the other religious cults come knocking at the door with their various pamphlet and trying to persuade you that their religion is better than others |
| 9 | The use of the layby , however , gave concern and councillors suggested looking at the possibility of filling in the laybys along Trinity Hill to prevent further incidents . |
| 10 | As a result the standard of craftsmanship to be found in some and the level of enthusiasm in all of his regular students is extremely high and the range of instruments produced expanding at the time . |
| 11 | But the H S E says the cluster of leukaemia cases is confined mainly to the nearby village of Seascale and to children whose fathers began working at the plant before nineteen sixty five . |
| 12 | And two women pictured chatting at a cottage door ‘ Miss Jewitt and Miss Carter , Mickley 1921 , ’ as Louisa 's typically matter-of-fact caption notes sport fanciful bonnets that ca n't have been part of their everyday dress . |
| 13 | However , once he gets his base plan on paper , probably by September , he 's going to start making the rounds of vendors seeking their cooperation in getting all the plugs from device drives to protocols filled beginning at the desktop level . |
| 14 | Kuwait is preparing to make a US$1,000 million claim for compensation from Iraq to cover the costs of cleaning up after the oil well fires left burning at the end of the Gulf War in 1991 . |