Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun sg] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen seemed unperturbed , and she felt stupid for allowing the scene at the airport to upset her so much . |
| 2 | This usually involves removing three or four screws and sliding or rotating the lip at the front of the cover away from the retaining slot under the case front . |
| 3 | The Sutherland and Ross-shire county boundary runs down the middle of the loch , touching the coast at the outlet of Kirkaig River , and Fionn collects in waters from hundreds of square miles , gathering them from as far away as Loch Borralan , at Atnacealgach , Urigill , Cama , the ‘ crooked loch ’ , and long , windswept Veyatie , below Cul Mor . |
| 4 | Mr Poole said there was evidence that some ambulance workers in the shires had been breaching the ban at the request of managers . |
| 5 | Stealing from the camp one night with only his rifle and iron rations , wading the river at the border , finding a sympathetic ship 's captain to take him to Sweden , working there for a while and then making his way down through Poland and Germany and the rest of Europe , village by village , shtetl by shtetl , always moving west , America the ultimate goal , until he reached Cork . |
| 6 | When , during the Children 's Address , a rhetorical question is asked as a step towards drawing the moral at the end , there is great danger of a mighty fall . |
| 7 | ‘ They 'd been raiding the school at the end of Dwyer Street . ’ |
| 8 | Without a word the Negro turned and Jess saw the padlock fastening the collar at the nape of his neck . |
| 9 | Cleveland County Council , which is sponsoring the course at the Clairville Road stadium , is also putting one on in the summer . |
| 10 | Friends were manning the telephone at the Manns ' home last night . |
| 11 | She tended to do it of late years by proxy , as it were : she was good — or had been before the advent of the Reverend Hereward Marr — at manning the tea-urn at the church social . |
| 12 | Analysts also worry that only 4,000 people were taken off the payroll in the quarter , bringing the total at the company down to 98,100 — they had been expecting that more would leave the company . |
| 13 | Apply by completing the box at the bottom of the application form . |
| 14 | Apply by completing the box at the bottom of the application form . |
| 15 | After mastering the language at the École des Langues Orientales Vivantes , Paris , he went to Russia where , between 1898 and 1901 , he worked in Moscow , St Petersburg , Kiev , Odessa , and other centres , acquiring the detailed knowledge of the archaeology of the region on which his reputation was to be built . |
| 16 | Not seeing the significance at the time of the two articles , or of the prong ( pitchfork ) and shovel that followed them , the two boys finished their frugal breakfast and set out upon their chores . |
| 17 | in so doing , he is not denying the value at the root of the accusation — namely , that prejudice is wrong . |
| 18 | The win provided a fitting send off to Salt Lake City , Utah , where they are representing the Republic at the World 's Standard Championships in the Mormon University . |
| 19 | Belcher si not a great beer-drinker either , but for Morse and Dexter there 's no better way of ending the day at the pub , one of their favourite haunts is the Kings Arms where you might even get Dexter to admit he might actually share one or two of his creation 's habits . |
| 20 | Opening the paperback at the title page , I glanced up and asked him should I sign it for someone . |
| 21 | Karen watched the steward opening the bottle at the sideboard . |
| 22 | One problem with avalanche transceivers to date has been that their transmission range is only effective for other members of a group surveying the snow at the surface . |
| 23 | The squatters had made four bedrooms out of it , keeping the kitchen at the back , and a pretty basic bathroom tacked on to that , as communal areas . |
| 24 | Il Moro sailed conservatively to win by 1 min 53 sec , a smaller margin that the 3 min 11 sec New Zealand scored easily over France 's Ville de Paris , the Kiwi boat gaining the advantage at the start and looking sharp right round the track . |
| 25 | We had already disconnected the water supply , so the first thing was to empty the cistern by flushing , and then remove the flush pipe from the flush pipe horn by folding back the rubber gasket and unscrewing the joint at the cistern . |
| 26 | So far as the merits of the instant appeal are concerned , I , like my noble and learned friends , Lord Bridge of Harwich and Lord Browne-Wilkinson , was in favour of dismissing the appeal at the conclusion of the first hearing . |
| 27 | Mrs de Crespigny ( ‘ Nora Champion de Crespigny is my full name ’ ) wrote to the effect that she had been passing the lounge at the time , and was a witness , if not to the actual assault , then to Mrs Wilikins 's evident distress . |
| 28 | Between Sutton and Wallington , the route now proposed was to avoid the centre of Carshalton , by following new roads to the south , some of which were not yet constructed ; although this routing was opposed by some frontagers in Sutton , the company was assured the co-operation of the Carshalton Park Estate Company , who were developing the area at the time . |
| 29 | So I was surprised when one morning , while filling the kettle at the tap in the yard , I noticed some of our neighbours looking across at this cottage where a painter was taking the ‘ To Let ’ sign out of the window . |
| 30 | She turned away from his probing eyes , busying herself by filling the kettle at the sink . |