Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're going to start shooting at the end of the month . ’ |
| 2 | And then it was only because I knew I was going to have to leave at the crack of dawn on Friday , and I would n't have time to fix anything up . ’ |
| 3 | The $489m loss for 1992 means that another 10,000 to 15,000 more jobs are going to have to go at the company as part of the continuing restructuring plan — its payroll actually rose to 252,000 at the end of 1992 from 240,000 in 1991 . |
| 4 | The first indication of the direction his mind ( or what passed for it ) was moving had come at the beginning of the trial when he called in two other judges to help determine whether the free pardon that Meehan had been granted quashed his conviction . |
| 5 | Fluka is continuing to work to stay at the forefront of knowledge in these areas . |
| 6 | Keener has little technical background , but was always a record nut , having started collecting at the age of five or six . |
| 7 | Observed in uncompromising midsummer light , Clytemnestra looked like something that , having lain neglected at the bottom of an old woman 's knitting basket , has finally been brought out to be mended . |
| 8 | It is unnerving to want to smile at the interviewer only to discover that your face has set and feels too stiff to move . |
| 9 | Everyone is trying to cut spending at the moment , but this decision is ill-advised . |