Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [noun sg] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sat outside at a table overlooking the bay , with the twinkling lights of the harbour beyond , the big yachts and the smaller boats bobbing at anchor in the moonlight . |
| 2 | In one of the novels of Albert Camus an unfortunate man is walking at night on the banks of the Seine when a suicide , having cast himself upon the waters , cries for help . |
| 3 | The action of the film was eclipsed by some of motor racing enthusiast McQueen 's off-screen dramas , setting his Savoy Hotel room alight while trying to prepare himself a hamburger , driving at speed into the hotel 's small forecourt and screeching into a U-turn — by hitting a large puddle on the way and drenching other guests — and overturning his car while racing , against the film studio 's orders , resulting in a cut lip , which mean rescheduling some scenes . |
| 4 | The pension from his post also went to Jean , who was then living at home on the rue de Harlay and no doubt working with Martin in the instrument business ( document 5 ) . |
| 5 | Jean Baptiste , living at home on the rue de Seine , married Louise Marquin , daughter of Elizabeth Carré and the deceased Sieur Jean Marquin , ‘ Intendant de maison et affaires de Seine , who was also living on the rue de Seine . |
| 6 | Both tables show control sample clients doing better in home care : spending less time altogether in an institution , and being more likely to be living at home at the end of the two time periods . |
| 7 | Community psychiatric nurses provide a vital service to the elderly mentally infirm enabling them to carry on living at home through the provision of medication and support . |
| 8 | In general , users were treated on an out-patient basis , living at home in the community and visiting the clinic at intervals . |
| 9 | But anyway , the whole problem we face now is how to do more samples because we 're only looking at intercourse in the cores of , say , a thousand or two thousand year spacing , we 've got to get down to a few hundred year spacing to really see some of the changes in climate that we know have gone on . |
| 10 | But we have once again slipped back into looking at life from the point of view of the individual organism rather than its genes . |
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| 12 | Here I intend to extend and develop the analysis by looking at differentiation as the product of a process of under development in the sense in which that word is used by Cleaver ( 1977 ) . |
| 13 | As the waiter cleared away the debris of their meal , Luke Hunter was looking at Folly across the table with an expression in his eyes that she found hard to classify . |
| 14 | However , when looking at speech at the level of the tone-unit we are not usually interested in this ; a much more important difference here is that between tonic stress ( marked by underlining the tonic syllable and placing before it one of the five tone-marks ) and non-tonic stressed syllables ( marked or in the head or in the tail ) . |
| 15 | N B N B when you see the moon you are looking at light from the sun reflected from the moon circles . |
| 16 | In talking about USE and CHOICE in Chapter 1 we were implicitly looking at language from the author 's point of view . |
| 17 | In this chapter we have , through our time travelling , been outside of our own world for some time now , so perhaps we are now looking at modernity with the eyes of a stranger coming home . |
| 18 | Donna Haber , from ASTMS who is also a member of an OECD expert group looking at safety in the biotechnology industry , says that the key to safety in biotechnology is planning in advance . |
| 19 | She pointed to the sleek white pleasure yacht which I had seen lying at anchor at the foot of the small hill , and chaffed Baker , ‘ I always have the feeling he 'd rather be on the water than on dry land . |
| 20 | Yes , on a Wednesday , this is the day when mummy goes teaching at school in the afternoon |
| 21 | Well , no one was going to call them cheapskates even if it meant staying at home for the rest of the decade . |
| 22 | Christine 's live-in lover had confirmed the holiday dates she had given : they had travelled abroad around the date-of the murder , and he had vouched for her staying at home in the days leading up to the death . |
| 23 | What was a young , unmarried girl doing at night on the Prince 's dayabeeyah , we wonder ? |
| 24 | Starting at sunrise on the eve of Ascension Day , they were to cut a prescribed number of ‘ stakes , stout-stowers and yedders ’ from Strayhead Wood with ‘ a knife of a penny price ’ , and carry them on their backs to the town of Whitby . |
| 25 | Many framework knitters were said in 1778 to work from 5 a.m to 10 p.m. in summer , but this was considered a departure from the more usual start at 6 a.m and finishing at dusk in the winter . |
| 26 | Each department of the shop , millinery , haberdashery , coats , children 's clothes , and so on , had its own assistant behind the counter , and above his head was the contraption consisting of springs and wires by means of which , by pulling down a handle , he could send money and the bill in a cylindrical metal container hurtling at speed towards the cashier . |
| 27 | Standing at Reception at the Rossiya , asking if there had been any messages because the Ministry might.have telephoned to give timings for his meeting . |
| 28 | Her favourite was listening to jazz , either live at one of her regular haunts , Ali 's Alley or the Village Vanguard , or sitting at home with the headphones on , listening to the likes of David Sanborn or the Yellowjackets . |
| 29 | ‘ The whole time since I heard that Walter would be released unconditionally I have been wondering how things will work with him being allowed out at night and to talk to whoever he wishes and me sitting at home in the evenings , gagged . ’ |
| 30 | Meanwhile , canny Munroists who paid attention to satellite technology , which indicated a depression deeper than Christmas in Barlinnie , were sitting at home by the fire eating cheese on toast . |