Example sentences of "[v-ing] at the [noun pl] ' [noun] " 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 | An enterprising firm of potters anywhere in the Province could supply batches of their wares , so crates of vessels arriving at the quartermasters ' stores could have come from any available source . |
| 7 | ODDEST sight of the week : top Tory ‘ mandarin ’ Allan Clarke giggling at the readers ' tips in Viz : ‘ Taxi drivers , why not pop into your local garage and have your indicators fixed then the rest of us would know where you 're going … |
| 8 | In the middle of the crowd — people arriving , people leaving , lost children , tannoy announcements , people queueing at the cashiers ' grilles , checking the airport shops , lugging their cases into the restaurants … in the middle of all that , Culley looked for someone special . |
| 9 | This lack of exposure in itself must have the effect of limiting motivation : staff nurses are rarely found battering at the tutors ' doors for advice on how to develop their teaching skills , and some way of motivating them and making them see the importance of teaching must be found . |
| 10 | 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 . |