Example sentences of "[v-ing] at the [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , teachers involved in this scheme would know that the success of their female pupils would be very carefully monitored , and that senior people in the school would be looking at the girls ' test results . |
| 2 | There was brawling at the Republicans ' conference in West Berlin in July 1989 and in mid-October a splinter group calling itself the Democratic Republicans of Germany ( Demokratische Republikaner Deutschlands ) was formed in Hannover . |
| 3 | Dolly would have felt less reassured had she known Melody was staying at the navvies ' camp . |
| 4 | A nineteenth-century drunkard sobbing at the penitents ' bench found no less an ‘ answer ’ in the cross of Christ than the twentieth-century philosopher with his carefully articulated questions . |
| 5 | Outside , there were the usual hospital sounds — ambulant patients moving about the ward in slippers , nurses talking at the nurses ' station , the distant squeaking wheel of a cleaner 's trolley — but in here it was very quiet . |
| 6 | He looked down at their faces — those he could discern in that sea of tall hats and paper , half-lost among the scaffolding : common faces , glowing with common avarice , indulging the common pleasure of gloating at the latecomers ' despair . |