Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least , out here , I have — I admit this with shame — I have delivered an extended breech with the nurse giving chloroform at one end and praying and me delivering at the other end and swearing , and the baby lived , the mother lived , and everything was all right . |
| 2 | I am not suggesting that he arrives at the meaning of Truth as the result of philosophical or metaphysical speculation in a vacuum . |
| 3 | Younger first time buyers would find such a scheme an unnecessary burden since , presuming that they retired at the standard age , they would have to continue paying their mortgage for 30 or 40 years before the pension plan matured to pay it off . |
| 4 | There is a particularly fine example in the last pas de deux of La Fille Mal Gardée where Lise and Colas weave themselves into an embrace which is so tender , gentle and loving that it arrives at the end of a phrase as the most natural thing in the world . |
| 5 | She had to find her own way to the bathroom and was pleased with herself for so quickly remembering that it lay at the end of the passage . |
| 6 | At the simplest level this means deciding that someone wearing , say , a skirt in our society is female and acting on the basis of this decision , or deciding that someone shouting at the top of his or her voice is excited or angry and acting accordingly . |
| 7 | At least she would n't either bully or patronise him , his usual lot amongst the cathedral clergy , ranking as he did at the very bottom of the cathedral hierarchy . |
| 8 | An ambiguously worded provision , patently lacking adequate means of enforcement , may be too slender a ground on which to anticipate that the courts would sanction a derogation from the ownership rights of the shareholders , lying as they do at the foundation of the legal model of the company . |
| 9 | Lying as it does at the northern limit of the global thermohaline ‘ conveyor belt ’ , changes in this region may ultimately have global consequences . |
| 10 | After we went through the second door , Buff stood without moving and he looked at the trees and did n't say anything . |
| 11 | He stopped speaking as someone knocked at the door . |
| 12 | Sir James Reckitt did some amateur excavating when he lived at the manor and some stones , which could have formed church windows , can still be seen in the gardens of houses since built on the site . |
| 13 | In a letter to Hopkins on the Southampton situation dated 10 August 1911 , he wrote " all the reforms the Southampton people are asking for we discussed at the Executive Meeting before the strike took place and we were all agreed that certain alterations had to take place , but when women and children are starving in one port and there is money locked up in Southampton I think it is one of the most cruel tragedies imaginable " . |
| 14 | Although it is a means of asserting authority , coming as it does at the start of the shift , parade is very relaxed and , from the point of view of the ordinary constables , serves as a way of casually reorientating themselves to the demands of work . |
| 15 | He stopped crying when they arrived at the house . |
| 16 | All the women exclaimed at the sight of the red , pink and white azaleas massed on the steps , but each thought privately that only she could appreciate the true beauty and significance of the flowers — Sophia feeling that here was the essence of the Italy she knew and loved , Penelope experiencing a lift of the heart as if the flowers held a promise of future romantic adventures , Ianthe knowing as she looked at the flower what she had only suspected before — that she was in love with John . |
| 17 | All voiced sounds are likely to lose a certain amount of voicing when they occur at the end of a word or at the beginning . |
| 18 | The Methodist chapel is also in a vulnerable spot , standing as it does at the crossroads . |
| 19 | The current form in which pop reproduces itself , the music video , is the perfect post-modern form , standing as it does at the vector of the leisure industries ' new situation . |