Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [noun] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remembered my own boyhood watching cavalrymen sticking tent pegs at the gymkhanas , and tried knights on shining white chargers , complete with shining white bascinets , breastplates , leg armour and gauntlets doing the same thing to my inside , but they never really filled the role . |
| 2 | It is based on a study of flashing light and vibrating pad alarms at the Radcliffe Hospital and Infirmary , Oxford . |
| 3 | ( He has now retired from the Branch but remains active , instructing student investigators at the aircraft accident investigation course at Cranfield Institute of Technology . ) |
| 4 | Sarah Raphael is painting Clive James at the moment , and has no need to rearrange furniture in his Barbican pied à terre . |
| 5 | After graduation he held house appointments at the Royal Victoria Infirmary ( RVI ) , Newcastle upon Tyne , and then worked for a year in pathology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore before becoming house physician at the Hospital for Sick Children , Great Ormond Street , London ( 1939 ) . |
| 6 | Curiously it is manageable only using SNMP protocols at the moment , although a NetView agent is being developed . |
| 7 | The cellulose chains are always simple thread-like molecules and do not branch by forming oxygen linkages at the sides of the sugar rings , as do other , weaker , polysaccharides such as starch . |
| 8 | On the same day that he declared he had no intention of altering Danzig 's status , and after meeting Ambassador Lipski at the Reich Chancellery to make the same assurance , Hitler went to a private meeting with a small group of Nazi leaders . |
| 9 | Replacing Norman Lamont at the Treasury with Kenneth Clarke , drafted in from the Home Office , may improve the government 's image . |
| 10 | In refusing people admission at the airport , Immigration Officers have to obtain the approval of an Inspector in direct contact with the Home Office . |
| 11 | Britain has a particular problem because of dense population and a policy of promoting road use at the expense of public transport . |
| 12 | Government ministers tried to stem the tide of mounting public expenditure : John Nott 's replacing Francis Pym at the Ministry of Defence in January 1981 was thought to be a pointer in this direction . |
| 13 | Field Marshal Sir Nigel Bagnall inspecting officer cadets at the RMA Sandhurst during a Passing-Out Parade . |
| 14 | ‘ I hear you 're seeing Mr Moran at the post office , ’ her mother ventured delicately . |
| 15 | Adam Smith 's famous dictum that we should not subsidise grape production in Scotland , does not extend to subsidising wine imports at the expense of the ‘ wine of the country ’ . |
| 16 | Since no amount of economic reductionism or political explanation alone will expose the roots and distinctive characteristics of the province of Ulster by the late Victorian period , the aim of this investigation is to concentrate specifically on the important contribution made by evangelical religion , from the early penetration by Methodism in the mid eighteenth century to the political crises surrounding Home Rule at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | Martin who was directing pop videos at the time showed me the video just after leaving college . |
| 18 | Seven people have been questioned by police investigating ticket fraud at the Cheltenham National Hunt Festival . |
| 19 | Even so , Mills and White ( 1978 ) have proposed an ‘ effluent fee ’ for motor vehicle emissions calculated by measuring emission levels at the beginning and end of the year multiplied by the distance driven . |
| 20 | In Manchester , police were forced to evacuate the areas surrounding bus stations at the Arndale Centre , Chorlton Street , Piccadilly and Stephenson Square for up to three hours while searches were carried out . |
| 21 | It was unlikely that countries like Brazil , China and India , which would be the largest consumers of energy in the future , would succumb to international treaties or conventions limiting energy use at the cost of economic development . |
| 22 | She supposed she was feeling a bit down in the dumps , apprehensive too about celebrating Christmas Day at the Danbys . |
| 23 | One saw the driver talking to and touching Mrs Wilks at the emergency telephone box , the silver car parked near by . |
| 24 | Nonetheless , the majority ( 70% ) of rear seat car passenger casualties in this age group were not wearing seat belts at the time of the accident . |
| 25 | However , particularly where the interviewee was undergoing withdrawal treatment at the time of interview , a further significant factor was the current treatment itself . |
| 26 | Middle-class Edinburgh lads like myself are discouraged from an early age from being physical unless they 're wearing rugby shorts at the time . |
| 27 | Subjects were 447 couples undergoing IVF treatment at the Foothills Hospital , Calgary , Canada , between March 1984 and March 1989 . |
| 28 | Even so , with at least two American tournaments lacking name sponsors at the time of writing and the LTA 's anxious search for a company willing to take over the men 's autumn indoor event in Birmingham , are we , I wonder , starting to see the icy blow of reality infiltrating a sport which , for so long , has seemed immune from the impact of any recession ? |
| 29 | The FC are also considering installing leaflet dispensers at the start of some of the routes . |
| 30 | He 's undergoing laser treatment at the minute is n't he ? |