Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've tried they 've got no , they 're struggling for staff at the moment for external training and the they 've said that er |
| 2 | Booking for events at the Theatre Royal |
| 3 | When booking for events at the Theatre Royal please note the seating guides which appear next to each ticket price . |
| 4 | Gull-like in appearance , with gliding and soaring flight , they feed by settling on the water and bobbing for plankton at the surface . |
| 5 | Jack was a native of Crook in County Durham and played for the local amateur side as a junior before signing for Newcastle at the age of 17 . |
| 6 | Hunt became a national motor racing hero in 1976 when he lifted the world formula one championship driving for McLaren at the age of 28 . |
| 7 | Although Liz 's body is disposing of alcohol at the rate of about one unit a hour , her last drink pushed her over the legal limit for driving of 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood . |
| 8 | Sister Catherine Dunne , a nun of the Sisters of Mercy Order , who was driving towards Armagh at the time , was also killed in the explosion and her passenger , a social worker , was seriously injured . |
| 9 | ‘ As soon as possible , ’ she sighed ecstatically , hardly able to breathe as she felt his strong hands slowly undoing the zip of her dress , shuddering with excitement at the touch of his fingers against her bare skin . |
| 10 | No , there was no hope of her husband exploding with rage at the thought of leaving her and swearing that he would find a way to remain . |
| 11 | He had a lump in his throat and he felt his skin prickling with shame at the thought of his friends and his friends ' mums going in to Pricewell 's and seeing Anna unloading ketchup bottles with ‘ Can I help you ? ’ pinned on her overall . |
| 12 | Vaguely disappointed , the detective sat by the steamed-up window , attracting the occasional glance from the groups of sullen men at the Formica tables , his nose prickling with pleasure at the smell of frying bacon . |
| 13 | Just as Bulletin 74 was being published , a Forestry Commission booklet Air Pollution and Forests stated ‘ there is no sign of the type of damage seen in West Germany , occurring in Britain at the moment ’ . |
| 14 | They were appearing in pantomime at the Bristol Hippodrome at the time . |
| 15 | What is happening in India at the moment is something we were not expecting . |
| 16 | He had been appearing on television at the time . |
| 17 | You do n't go round knocking on doors at the estate agent . |
| 18 | When Mr Steen rang on Friday afternoon to say he was n't certain whether or not he was returning to London at the weekend , she had checked the petrol in the car in case he might want it . |
| 19 | Returning to Moscow at the age of 52 , for the first time since he left to live in London 26 years ago , Ashkenazy said : ‘ In my modest way , I thought I could endorse what 's happening in my country . ’ |
| 20 | Did you say something about Mr Boulez perhaps returning to work at the opera ? |
| 21 | Returning to England at the Restoration , Shaw became one of Clarendon 's chief business advisers , and held such a multiplicity of posts that Sir William Coventry [ q.v. ] described him sarcastically as ‘ a miracle of a man ’ . |
| 22 | Either way , he will be returning to Westminster at the end of May , I am told . |
| 23 | On returning to Vienna at the end of September , Constanze immediately left for Baden , while Mozart put the finishing touches to The Magic Flute . |
| 24 | ‘ He must feel he is walking on water at the moment , but come Christmas when the goals do n't go in , what happens then ? |
| 25 | This generated CO2 which migrated up-dip into the Stinkdolomit and caused leaching of dolomites at the foot of the mud wedge ( Fig. 20 ) . |
| 26 | One was looking through binoculars at the mountain . |
| 27 | A dreadful tragic place — elderly rheumatics dressing for dinner at the hotel ; artists not good enough ; beach-combers not young enough nor well enough off It filled me with pity and terror . |
| 28 | While serving as ambassador at the court of St James Sancy 's brother sold the stone to James I. When James II fled to France he took refuge at St Germain and sold the stone to Louis XIV . |
| 29 | His wife Georgina does the secretarial work and 21year-old daughter Sonia is a ‘ girl Friday , ’ acting as receptionist at the showhouse and each day making sure that all the completed houses are spotless . |
| 30 | Biologists , as we have seen , are accustomed to looking for advantages at the gene level ( or the individual , the group , or the species level according to taste ) . |