Example sentences of "of [v-ing] a [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I 'm not thinking of drawing a sketch at the moment , we 've done the sketch on the other page |
| 2 | His memorandum , delivered on 9 January 1939 , repeated previous arguments and drew attention to the weakness of the Labour League of Youth and the difficulty of gaining a majority at the next General Election . |
| 3 | Much more satisfactory is the method of lofting a pulley at the end of the main kiteline and passing a continuous loop of secondary line through the pulley . |
| 4 | With Cyrille Regis and Brian Small dropped , being replaced by Dwight Yorke and Steve Froggatt , Villa again looked a side capable of sustaining a challenge at the top of the table . |
| 5 | By now it was the rush hour and he was squeezed into the corner of a carriage by a family of Swedish tourists who talked loudly and without vowels and continuously trafficked maps and guidebooks across him , so there was no chance of getting a look at the diaries or the few folded sheets of paper that were wedged between them . |
| 6 | Oh well like she said today , there 's no guarantee of getting a job at the end . |
| 7 | Instead of beginning a search at the start of the structure ( i.e. first element of the array ) , the binary search technique begins at a mid point . |
| 8 | It was a line that began with the excavation work at the Heavenite observatory and her first trip in the TARDIS ( how could you forget the TARDIS ? ) , continued with a confused recollection of pointing a gun at the Doctor in a tunnel somewhere , and ended on Sakkrat ( Sakkrat ? |
| 9 | In the case of matching grants the central government agrees to match a certain proportion of the expenditures of the local authority ; for example , central government may pay x per cent of the total cost of providing a service at the local level . |
| 10 | ( The last sentence of transportation to be pronounced by a Mayor of Saltash was in 1877 , upon a ‘ ticket of leave ’ man guilty of stealing a watch at the town 's regatta ) . |
| 11 | Twenty years ago the city 's population never thought of spending a day at the beach . |
| 12 | It started to rain so I went down to Apsley House at the bottom right-hand corner of the park with the intention of having a look at the paintings there . |
| 13 | First , Nicholas had no hope of undertaking a campaign at the opposite end of the continent without the assistance of Austria and Prussia — but Austria and Prussia were reluctant to join him . |
| 14 | She had five whole days to go yet before she might chance to see Vendelin Gajdusek , she mused and , suddenly fired with enthusiasm , and mobile , she toyed with the idea of taking a look at the other spa towns — if they were not too far distant . |
| 15 | The point should also be made that practitioners facing potential limitation problems in claims valued at less than £50,000 can no longer employ the expedient of issuing a writ at the last moment before the limitation period expires . |
| 16 | An accomplice , Marten Imandi , was found guilty of murdering a person at the North-West Orient Airlines office in Copenhagen on July 22 , 1985 , and was given a life sentence . |