Example sentences of "[v-ing] at the [adj] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | With their central register filed in address order , information about any person living at the relevant address is passed regardless of their name . |
| 2 | It looks like it 's going to be difficult to shrug this one off , picking at the racist scab was never going to do anyone any good , quiffy boy . |
| 3 | It should have spent a little more time looking at the serious work being carried out by the Health Education Authority and less time on carping criticisms of the authority 's work . |
| 4 | He helped her out when her father 's meeting at the Black Friar was raised . |
| 5 | The Commission helps to create around five thousand new jobs a year.And all the small firms exhibiting at the Three Counties are hoping the orders will keep flowing in . |
| 6 | Those not teaching at the present time are welcome to attend on a daily basis at £2 per session . |
| 7 | Jumping at the same event was the famous ski jumper Eddie ‘ The Eagle ’ Edwards . |
| 8 | So if I saw the mountain , outlined by the rising sun at dawn , I could say to myself that though it was Saturday morning here what I was witnessing at the same moment was dawn on Friday , the day before . |
| 9 | The surprise for well-fed French bureaucrats heading for a busy day paper shuffling at the European Commission was lightened only by the inclusion of croissants as a side course . |
| 10 | Communications arriving at the orderly room were largely turgid documents in ‘ Whitehallese ’ from the War Office . |
| 11 | The film playing at the local kinema was Chances , a war-time romance also starring Anthony Bushell and Rose Hobart . |
| 12 | ‘ Wayne suggests playing at the top level is what matters . |
| 13 | Experience with 761 had shown that loading and unloading at the same door was too slow on the Promenade . |
| 14 | I mean … people who only succeed through their family connections depress me , ’ she went on frantically , her head spinning at the glittering lures being dangled before her eyes . |
| 15 | She was working at the old people 's home , just up the road — ’ |
| 16 | But she said Lilian had been working at the old people 's home just down the road . |