Example sentences of "[v-ing] their [noun pl] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they started keeping their clothes at the pit . |
| 2 | However , Fleischmann and Pons were announcing their results at the press conference before they had told any of their scientific colleagues . |
| 3 | The two rabbits went up to the board at a hopping run and crouched in a patch of nettles on the far side , wrinkling their noses at the smell of a dead cigarette-end somewhere in the grass . |
| 4 | From today , people parking their cars at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford will have to pay and display . |
| 5 | Helped by Essex County Council , 14 Essex companies will be exhibiting and selling their goods at the Britain in Town show in Antwerp . |
| 6 | Bazille was killed a few months before his twenty-ninth birthday in the Franco-Prussian war , and since then scholars have been wringing their hands at the loss of a potential ‘ great Impressionist ’ , discounting the possibility that he could equally have evolved into a third-rate artist like Sisley or Morisot . |
| 7 | I wonder if on some distant planet there are creatures who are holding their sides at the prospect of us hurling plates at each other . ’ |
| 8 | They looked at the passports and then started to walk down the aisle , pointing their guns at the passengers . |
| 9 | On the contrary , they were risking their lives at the forefront of discovery in a new branch of science . |
| 10 | Some of the crew puffing after only half an hour or so , which is n't surprising as the only exercise they take in the normal run of things is putting their legs under a table and aiming their snouts at the trough . |
| 11 | There are already two vacancies on the Glenavon board with the former chairman and long-serving George Fleming losing their seats at the shareholders AGM last week . |
| 12 | ‘ The way retailers are running their businesses at the moment means that they are never overstaffed . |
| 13 | Mr Grierson explained : ‘ You get the real fans stopping their cars at the top of the hill and then playing Dire Strait 's Going Home — the theme from the film — as they drive down the brae . |
| 14 | On the closed-circuit monitors , he saw the technicians taking their places at the instrument banks . |
| 15 | Andy did some earlier work for Palm and Palm were showing their products at the ISPO exhibition . |
| 16 | Michael Fallon ( Con ) and Peter Bergg ( Lib Dem ) yesterday met the young men who will be arguing their policies at the school hustings . |
| 17 | There are many incidents recorded in the registers of Haymo whilst here at Hailing , carrying out many ordinations and there are many instances recorded of monks receiving their tonsures at the Chapel at Halling . |
| 18 | It is only when one has haunted the markets of France and the food shops in the country towns and villages , watched the housewives doing their shopping , listened to them discussing their purchases at the pâtisseries and the charcuteries that one realizes how much less they are tied to their kitchens than we had always been led to suppose . |
| 19 | they were dangling their toes at the end of this thing . |