Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [v-ing] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hoddle kicked off by telling Swindon he wanted to leave … he wanted a bigger club … next thing Chelsea are knocking at the door for both Hoddle and John Gorman … they both resigned … |
| 2 | Well the way Chelsea are playing at the moment , you 've got a very good chance of winning . |
| 3 | Sefa-Dedeh is looking at the hydration properties of legumes with the idea of developing a variety that takes less time . |
| 4 | Instead the queues have been forming to secure places on the landscape painting holidays Mr Waldie is running at the Esplanade Hotel , Scarborough . |
| 5 | RICHARD is sitting at a table , poring morosely over his cheque-book stubs . |
| 6 | Nellie was sitting at the bedside . |
| 7 | Nellie was chuckling at the story . |
| 8 | Eleanor was staring at the altar . |
| 9 | ‘ Is something the matter , princess ? ’ he asked , seeing that Meredith was staring at the handkerchief in consternation . |
| 10 | He was also tired and cold , and in between worrying that Prince Richard was lying at the bottom of the lake with a broken neck had been forced to entertain the idea that he himself might be less fit than he should be . |
| 11 | On Friday Madge Grimsilk was sitting at the back of the stalls again . |
| 12 | Hawkins was standing at the top where he 'd climbed from the ladder and was gazing nonplussed at the strange scarecrow on the floor . |
| 13 | Luke Travis was standing at the top of the short flight of stone steps that led down to the garden . |
| 14 | Leni was waiting at the foot of the last flight of stairs , which was partitioned off to give her a flimsy front door of her own . |
| 15 | Geoffrey and Anthony were sitting at the end of Penzance Gardens , where it met Princedale Road . |
| 16 | ( ROBIN HOOD is showing at the Triangle Cinema on Wednesday September 25 ) . |
| 17 | Mr Millan is speaking at a lunch to be held at the SAS Royal Hotel in Brussels to celebrate the new venture , which is the first official joint undertaking of the two law societies [ which represent solicitors in their two jurisdictions ] . |
| 18 | Within three months Eva was champing at the bit . |
| 19 | Vince was standing at the window , looking out . |
| 20 | Landau was speaking at the announcement of Rhône-Poulenc 's 1991 results in Manchester , where he revealed a 3.2 per cent increase in net profits to FFr 2004m ( £1 = FFr 9.5 ) , and a 6.9 per cent rise in turnover to FFr 83817m . |
| 21 | CICS for OS/2 is not the only ‘ middleware ’ that IBM was touting at the end of March ; the company continued the theme by unveiling the first implementations of its Message Queue Interface , dubbed the MQSeries , and said that it will try to promote them as a cross-system standard . |
| 22 | Alexei was staring at the ground . |
| 23 | It is not as if Eurotunnel was working at the leading-edge of technological innovation . |
| 24 | Nell was sitting at a table with a fortyish couple who she later told me owned one of the horses in the box-car , a dark bay called Redi-Hot . |
| 25 | So I drove up to Illinois , where Ray was living at the time , and got him to build me one . |
| 26 | Fergus was staring at the plasterboard expanse above them . |
| 27 | When the flat door opened , Rachaela was sitting at the table . |
| 28 | Lord Hulton was waiting at the entrance and I thought I had better warn him . |
| 29 | Rodney was standing at the cooker . |
| 30 | The UN protection force , Unprofor , and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees had called for an air corridor after reports that refugees in Srebrenica were dying at a rate of 20 a day from exposure and starvation . |