Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not alone — the Philips team had been kept waiting many hours on several days — though I was beginning to despair of hanging around at the theatre during a five-hour ‘ patching ’ session , being granted only 15 distracted minutes in a break , when we finally resumed our conversation towards midnight . |
| 2 | Finally , I propose to call no person more than once to accept that the movers will have the opportunity of winding up at the end and I would please ask you to wait until you have been called . |
| 3 | The governing body therefore announced further changes in legislation in 1986 which have meant the phasing out of turbocharging completely at the end of the 1988 season . |
| 4 | They dismiss US claims that the war is ‘ going to plan ’ , noting only that the multi-national force is four weeks into a war which shows no likelihood of ending soon at the time of writing . |
| 5 | Steps built out in front of retaining walls may look better if they 're ‘ returned ’ : the sides are built out on each step , to form rectangular , curved or rounded ends , filling in all or part of the space up to the retaining wall , so that each step continues round instead of ending abruptly at the side . |
| 6 | The mystery deepened when , instead of going seaward at the foot of the hill , they turned up the right bank of the Touques as if making for Deauville . |
| 7 | It is understood he initially thought of going there at the weekend but was advised against it by the police . |
| 8 | Avoid complicated thoughts of pulling down at the start of the downswing unless all else fails . |
| 9 | ‘ Any chance of getting in at the end of that scheme ? ’ |
| 10 | Perhaps they feel it is a way of getting back at the system that keeps them in the poverty gap . |
| 11 | Substitute Dean Gordon gave Comrades a tonic when he scored within a minute of coming on at the start of the second half , but David Montgomery got Carrick 's third two minutes from the end , with Wesley Hanna being sent off for protesting just a little too vociferously . |
| 12 | Substitute Dean Gordon gave Comrades a tonic when he scored within a minute of coming on at the start of the second half , but David Montgomery got Carrick 's third two minutes from the end , with Wesley Hanna sent off for protesting . |
| 13 | This acute retention of urine constitutes one of medicine 's most uncomfortable emergencies , with its habit of coming on at the end of and evening 's drinking ( usually beer ) adding a bloated urgency to the situation . |
| 14 | Yeah I mean I 'm not , I 'm not saying you 're a bad influence on her now , I think she 's just sort of jumping in at the chance for someone to victimize personally . |
| 15 | The scene of scrabbling around at the top of the stairwell and the subsequent scene of ED 209 's lashing about furiously at the foot of the stairs , unable to regain its footing , were then animated , the latter mostly using back projection and maximum blurs — almost literally hands-on , with the animator waggling the legs with wires during the one- or two-frame takes . |