Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [v-ing] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The old English folksong demonstrates that they could often be sinister in their intent , waylaying passers-by and snatching at the wind with skinny , white hands : |
2 | She moved away a little , patting her petticoats and looking at the dog . |
3 | It 's something very close to what I 'm saying erm and erm I 'm saying perhaps one thing in addition , which is that just as when we look into the future , which , as a historian , I 'm asked to do more often , I think , these days than looking at the past , but when we look into the future , we have different versions of what that future will be . |
4 | He died at a friend 's flat in Rock Ferry after going into convulsions and frothing at the mouth . |
5 | I 'd never heard of work till that moment , and there I was thinking of myself dressed in trousers and sitting at a desk with a ledger . |
6 | Both dogs were straining at their chains , Rosie trampling her five pups and drooling at the mouth , Lady pawing the air with her front feet in a begging gesture . |
7 | V6028 plunged through a hail of flak , dodging balloon cables and aiming at the centre of the docks . |
8 | Do do more writing and trying things and reading at the moment . |
9 | Some of the more important include George Blake , who worked for MI6 ( see Chapter 2 ) ; John Cairncross , who betrayed Ultra secrets from the Government Code & Cipher School ( GCCS ) at Bletchley Park during the war to the Russians ; John Vassall , a sad homosexual who gave away naval secrets while working at the Admiralty ; Frank Bossard , who gave the Russians details of British and American guided weapons systems ( which must have amused them greatly as the Russians were far ahead of the West at the time ) ; and William Marshall , who had worked as a cipher clerk at the British Embassy in Moscow . |
10 | As I stood watching him for a few seconds and looking at the damage to his farm buildings and the dead and wounded cattle around the orchard , I thought to myself . |
11 | Now they are more likely to spend their time sitting in front of the television , watching videos or staring at a computer screen . |
12 | Mounted on fine horses and riding at a gallop , two abreast , naked to the breech-clout , their faces covered with white , red and yellow paint in fanciful designs , and decked with plumes and feathers and trinkets fluttering in the sunshine . |
13 | ‘ So so , ’ said Julia , looking up at him from her pillows and smiling at the affection and the anxiety in his face . |
14 | … For the purpose of these proceedings it is to be assumed that the plaintiff 's injuries as subsisting at the time of her birth were caused by the act or omission of the defendant in the driving of his car . |
15 | And if we can pin those down , and as Roger said , we 've also now , over the last few weeks co begun carrying out erm regular testing two or three times a day now on each of the floors and looking at the humidity |
16 | The photographs are arranged on the walls of a tower spanning two floors and narrowing at the top , suggesting a chimney — fittingly , since all 4,000 Jews of Eisziszki were shot by Lithuanian guards in September 1941 , under the watchful eyes of the SS . |
17 | The most awkward of these are the manager 's expenses when travelling at the request and on behalf of the artist . |