Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] at the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( It might be useful to remind the reader at this point that the Speech and Drama movement , although fading at the school level , had become firmly entrenched in teacher colleges where many well qualified Speech and Drama people had gained appointments , colleges such as Trent Park and Goldsmiths ' , where teacher-training in the arts was not unlike theatre-training . ) |
| 2 | The other poem which Coleridge wrote during his retreat , and the circumstances of its composition , have entered the mythology of English literary history : while staying at the Culbone farmhouse he took three grains of opium to relieve what he variously described as ‘ a dysentery ’ or ‘ a slight indisposition ’ , and in the deep reverie which followed composed two or three hundred lines of poetry ‘ without any sensation of consciousness of effort ’ . |
| 3 | Later , while sitting at the kitchen table making a special list of people to help with Easter flowers , and a subsidiary list of those who might be approached to donate Easter lilies , Anna and her conscience had a little tussle . |
| 4 | David Greetham , 28 , of Wales Street , Aberdeen , is accused of embezzling £5,135.08 while working at the Dalmahoy Hotel , Golf and Country Club at Kirknewton , near Edinburgh , between 1 February and 8 November , 1991 . |
| 5 | Lawrie , 34 , of Broughton Road , Edinburgh , admitted stealing the cash while working at the Thistle Foundation 's offices in Niddrie Mains Road between June and November 1991 . |
| 6 | Mr Litherland , Labour MP for Manchester Central , said he had drawn attention to the security flaw after a building worker told him of his concern while working at the court building . |
| 7 | An important step in establishing this was taken by Einstein in 1905 ( that amazing year in which , while working at the patent office in Berne , he also invented special relativity and explained Brownian motion ) . |
| 8 | Peter Jones , 44 , from Childwall , Liverpool , was struck by the disease of the nervous system last Christmas while working at the North-East Nissan car plant . |
| 9 | While practising at the Chancery bar , he kept up an interest in Liverpool through Dr James Currie [ q.v. ] , whose circle included many local liberals like William Roscoe [ q.v. ] , as well as rising Whig politicians such as ( Sir ) Samuel Romilly [ q.v. ] and James Scarlett ( later first Baron Abinger , q.v . ) . |
| 10 | A word can be misspelled , mis-recognised or mis-written , but all three cases appear the same when looking at the pattern recogniser output . |
| 11 | Such data are relevant when looking at the impact trade unions may be able to have on the national political process . |
| 12 | Working with a graduate student , Andrew Himes , Dr Simpson decided he had overestimated the number of fat neutrinos , but that he still saw them , both when repeating his work on tritium and when looking at the beta decays of sulphur . |
| 13 | Reg Akehurst 's charge was a firm favourite for that contest and gave his backers not the slightest hint of a scare when leading at the furlong pole to score by a length-and-a-half. way off the pace makes an accurate assessment of his progress very difficult for the handicapper , but this observer is convinced there is significant improvement still to come . |
| 14 | Its high register gives brilliance and point when doubling at the octave phrases allotted to other wind instruments or to the violins . |
| 15 | When sitting at the breakfast table you may not actually measure the distance between your hand and the coffee cup , but you seldom miss . |