Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pos pn] [noun] [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Some parents may be encouraging their children to help at home or even take up work instead of going to school . |
2 | Turning my head to gaze at life , |
3 | The was hot water on demand for washing and , believe it or not , a sauna bath available at a moment 's notice , run by a scientist from Estonia who was spending his holidays working at camp and doing a bit of climbing when there was no-one wanting a little birch-twig flagellation . |
4 | Only a few days after watching his countrymen beaten at Twickenham , Bertrand Ventura was at his new desk in Gloucester this week . |
5 | On Saturday I sat there watching his team lose at home to Chelsea and listening to an Australian Evertonian who was back at Goodison for the first time since he emigrated in 1985 . |
6 | You will learn that at the age of nineteen he was practising his public speaking at Hyde Park Corner ; you will learn that he reads the Sun to keep his finger on the public pulse . |