Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] at [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harvey was there in a red-coat uniform , smiling and doing his neat little dances and pretending to drop plates and saving them at the last minute , and the girls were saying ‘ Ooo ’ and slyly studying each other 's hairdos and shoes . |
| 2 | We came very close to doing it at the last election . |
| 3 | We thank Raymond and his bride Koti for not cancelling us at the last minute , and allowing BBC Good Food to share in their excitement . |
| 4 | He touched a lump of rotting offal and , scooping it up , throwing it at the first assassin now tripping towards him . |
| 5 | The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend . |