Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [noun] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jesus , he 's sucking in air at the back and wuffing it out at the front . |
| 2 | If possible avoid filling in forms at the time of the interview as you will not do your best while nervous , nor will you be able to correct mistakes easily or make changes . |
| 3 | Filling in forms at the interview |
| 4 | At 9.20 , PC Foster was filling in reports at the Police Station , Windsor . |
| 5 | Norway 's most eloquent campaigner against the Community is Anne Enger Lahnstein , leader of the Centre Party , which , like the anti-EC Socialist Left Party , is picking up support at the expense of Labour , which forms the minority government . |
| 6 | More recently , they have been supplemented by the galium arsenide laser instrument with opto-electrical linkage for picking up conversation at a distance from the vibrations in window panes . |
| 7 | A dissident intellectual passing out leaflets at a factory gate reminds him of a nervous child offering a sugar lump to a large horse . |
| 8 | Wilcock had developed another interest too , one that had burgeoned on the Voice , a fascination with Andy Warhol 's factory , then turning out movies at the Factory by the dozen , and sucking in voyeurs , drifters , hopers , and no-hopers . |
| 9 | So to find out how much you pay for , how much actual energy has been used up , you think it , again going back to the water , if we have a big tank full of water and we 're using it up , this time in terms of power , erm if we have something that 's using up water at the rate of say six gallons a minute and someone 's going to charge you for your water . |
| 10 | Sticking up toads at the top of my gran 's cellar steps |
| 11 | Right , yes , I can , problems and queries , paperwork , customer are sending out paperwork at the end of the day , and like faxing the appointments , contracts , fill out the appointments forms , etcetera , so you 've got all these bits done . |
| 12 | In line with the Group of Eight 's decision in December 1988 to offer fair treatment to Latin American debtors , Brazil in January 1990 proposed that debtor countries with payments imbalances or shortages of hard currency ( such as Bolivia , Ecuador and Peru ) should convert their debt into local currency to pay for Brazilian imports and to finance cross-border ventures , and also offered them the possibility of buying back debt at a discount . |
| 13 | CARNMONEY will be coming up roses at the weekend as the local Presbyterian Church hosts one of the biggest events in its social calendar . |
| 14 | There 's a theatre marketing which is closing it , well , sort of shutting up shop at the end of the month , maybe |
| 15 | We 're not giving out mortgages at the moment |
| 16 | It 's a perpetual patching up job at the moment |
| 17 | A health tribunal 's been hearing how residents at a home for the mentally handicapped were fed bread and water as a punishment . |
| 18 | We had , not love affairs , but intrigues ; giggling over trysts at the skating-rink , kisses in taxis . |
| 19 | Shocked granny Vera said last night : ‘ I was washing up cups at the time and he told me he did n't agree with what I was doing . |
| 20 | It is , of course , open to the occupier to regulate the right to possession of lost property by contract with the entrant ; it remains to be seen whether merely putting up notices at the entrance declaring that lost property is to vest in the occupier will be an effective manifestation of the intent to control required by Parker 's case . |
| 21 | He had laid newspaper in front of the range and was putting up blackouts at the windows so that , but for the glow of embers in the fire , there was almost total darkness . |
| 22 | It is lightly built and agile , with light hindquarters , heavier shoulders and long horns curving up — in fact it is very similar to the fighting bulls of Spain and Portugal , and just as alert and aggressive , but much lighter in build , with the bulls weighing only 400–475kg and the cows 325–350kg , and standing about 130cm at the withers . |
| 23 | Addressing Liverpool Crown Court , Miss Coltman : ‘ He said he was carrying out operations at the hospital . |
| 24 | She served as demonstrator in chemistry at Newnham College from 1903 to 1906 , while also carrying out research at the Davy–Faraday research laboratory of the Royal Institution . |
| 25 | Would it , he was thinking , be like the ending of Forster 's as yet unpublished Maurice , a somewhat tame homo novel of which he was to say , commenting on the male lovers setting up house at the end , ‘ I give it three weeks ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not feeling particularly kind at the moment , ’ Mrs Doran snapped . |