Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [adj] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | First seen alongside Neneh Cherry , singing and standing on her head with the early-Eighties cult dance band Rip Rig And Panic , Andrea Oliver has since sung with a variety of outfits and , in between organising and cooking for a weekly night at West London 's Globe club , has recently joined forces with Malcolm Joseph ( previously with soul band Seventh Heaven ) to form new band , Her . |
| 2 | She hoped that perhaps Faye would speak her misgivings aloud that the dress was really far too sophisticated and daring for a humble nurse at her employer 's Christmas party . |
| 3 | Tammuz had the feeling he must be appearing like a predatory beast at that moment , and wished Zambia was there to put the kid at his ease . |
| 4 | Everyone felt a desire to go out , even if only for a moment , to feel the pleasure of walking in a foreign city at night . |
| 5 | Then there are the Flume Rides ; long , twisty fibreglass tunnels , down which one slid at high speed , ending in a deep pool at the bottom . |
| 6 | My romantic dreams of hot sunny days ending in a well-earned drink at the local hostelry were soon shattered . |
| 7 | Daring skiers used the 60ft ramp to make airborne acrobatic leaps before landing on a giant air-bag at the bottom of the slope . |
| 8 | An unplanned twenty-minute hold prior to the display further reduced his fuel reserves , and the pilot intended to refuel at Denham before returning to a private strip at Pangbourne . |
| 9 | No I 'm not , I 'm not looking for a new penknife at all boy |
| 10 | The fact that the polecat with young was sighted three years ago by a grumpy shepherd looking for a lost lamb at 5.30 a.m. on a March morning , two miles away from post number seven , is irrelevant . |
| 11 | The same applies in the labour market where workers made unemployed do not immediately reduce their asking wage and take up a new job — instead , they spend some ( possibly quite considerable ) time searching for a new job at the old wage . |
| 12 | The outcome was that John moved in with his father , who was now living in a pleasant flat at Houghton Heights , Johannesburg . |
| 13 | Although single-parent families have , on average , fewer children than married couples , clearly a considerable number of children will be living in a one-parent family at any one time . |
| 14 | In 1957 Fortune magazine published a list of America 's richest men , putting at the top the shy , reclusive , almost unknown J. Paul Getty , who turned out to be living in a modest room at the Ritz Hotel , London , conducting his world-wide oil business through the hotel switchboard with the minimum secretarial help . |
| 15 | ‘ We are living in a cultural wilderness at the moment . |
| 16 | Now , after living in a large house at Cape Cod on the east coast of America for 35 years , she has returned to England and settled in a small village in Berkshire . |
| 17 | Young Mr Nilsen is in fact going for a 14-day trial at Sheff Utd right after Norway 's match tomorrow . |
| 18 | So , you did so many miles per hour , we calculated , you would have done so many miles if you 'd been going for a full hour at that speed , so your dis your , your speed , velocity really but we 'll call it speed , right ? |
| 19 | He is going through a dry patch at the moment as he has won only on match in the five tournaments he has played so far this year but I am sure he will work his way back again , he has got it in him . |
| 20 | Eric , who was going through a religious phase at the time which I suppose I was to some extent copying , thought this was a terrible thing to say ; God was n't like that . |
| 21 | She was going through a traumatic divorce at the time and it was obvious she needed someone to talk to and I just happened to be around . |
| 22 | Did she see me pour the Finish 'Em into the punch ? ‘ I know we 're going through a bad patch at the moment . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Middlesbrough were going through a bad patch at the time . |
| 24 | Were they a coincidence or are you going through a purple patch at the moment ? |
| 25 | It is obviously more difficult to set aside time for meal planning if you happen to be going through a heavy time at work . |
| 26 | Nicandra was standing waiting for a second turn at her reflection , her attitude a droop of pure unhappiness . |
| 27 | Chelsea might have won had the ball not kept turning into a Mexican bean at Kerry Dixon 's feet . |
| 28 | Back bent , he twisted this way and that , peering in a short-sighted way at the newcomers wandering around the yard . |
| 29 | They fell silent for a moment , all of them wondering if she was shopping for the son who was lying in a dissecting trench at the Medico-Legal Institute . |
| 30 | They had disturbed alligators in the shallows of the river , listened to unseen deer bark in the riverside thickets , and a herd of wild pigs had fled snuffling and grunting from a stagnant pool at their approach . |