Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [noun prp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walker Hall was bought long ago by Daddy 's mother , Grandma Hauxwell , when she and Grandad were living at Hury in a place called Yew Tree . |
| 2 | In this way many kept an account going at Gieves over a period of years for a modest monthly sum of two or three pounds . |
| 3 | On May 7th , German troops massing at Thiaumont for an attack were suddenly blanketed by accurate air-directed artillery fire , and noted bitterly that , virtually for the first time , their fighters were unable to drive away the French observation planes . |
| 4 | be talking at Scarborough in a non-structured |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd like something little and gay , ’ said the woman , smiling at Melanie from a mouth painted the very palest possible orange . |
| 6 | The Canto as a whole , whatever its incidental obscurities , is plainly concerned with the phenomenon of ‘ the living dead ’ , focussed in part , as Ronald Bush has invaluably pointed out , on the old men , Clemenceau , Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson , legislating at Versailles for a future they had no part in . |