Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The syntactic component could look at all the word-pairs for each tag ending at some vertex in the graph and discard all but the highest scoring , based on the acoustic scores and the pair-wise probabilities , since , given this parsing method , no later information is relevant to the decision . |
| 2 | Luke claims that Caesar Augustus ordered a census to be taken but there is no record of a census happening at that time . |
| 3 | A taxi driver told Gloucester Crown Court that he saw two drivers laughing at each other as they roared past him nose-to-tail just before the crash . |
| 4 | She turned away , shutting her eyes to adjust them to the darkness , and then with no further hesitation she was going down the rope hand over hand , her feet and knees checking at each knot . |
| 5 | Andy the gardener was standing around on the lower terrace looking at some white geraniums he had set out in an urn by the pool house , and although she shrank from returning to the scene of yesterday 's shame , she decided to go and rap with him . |
| 6 | There were three poor brothers living at that time who owned nothing in the world but one pear tree . |
| 7 | This principle states that transformations apply cyclically , and that later transformations , in tinkering with the transforms already produced , deal with them as completed units undergoing at most peripheral changes in this later re-arrangement . |
| 8 | The police say the best they could do with the car travelling at such high speeds was to keep track of it . |
| 9 | The female still lay there , watery eyes staring at some remote distance from which she waited to be recalled . |
| 10 | At its most extreme limits of informality the interview could be carried out with the interviewer taking no notes or tape recording at all . |
| 11 | " Well , Indonesia chickens fly — look ! " he said , accelerating towards a group of hens pecking at some minor accident on the road ahead . |
| 12 | There was iron too in the Spencer soul and numerous hospital corridors rang to the sound of the redoubtable Countess and the fiery Lady Sarah Spencer hissing at each other like a pair of angry geese . |
| 13 | These are examples of synchronic analysis : slicing through the relationships obtaining at any one time in the social-cultural formation . |
| 14 | Smooth the lining out flat again , then turn in the sides of the lining and pin it to the curtains , leaving a 2.5cm ( 1in ) margin of curtain fabric showing at each side . |
| 15 | It is obvious that our conclusion is limited by cell cultures only and is not equivalent to the general conclusion that there is no cell aging at all . |
| 16 | There 's that one of the man and the woman in the boat smiling at each other . |
| 17 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
| 18 | That the project 's objectives took the form they did was partly due to the particular interests of those involved and partly to a knowledge of other experimental projects operating at that time . |
| 19 | I remember we sat there all afternoon looking at that wonderful picture and planning our poem in our heads . |
| 20 | Thankful to hear the change in his tone , I responded with a less playful punch , and soon we were on our feet slapping at each other with a wild hilarity , a contest in which inevitably I was the loser . |
| 21 | He thought he might as well look over his skiing equipment , instead of listening to his parents snapping at each other . |
| 22 | You know there was there was no other work going at that time . |
| 23 | The 1947 Press Commission had already pointed it out — but the proportion sharing at that time was only one-fifth . |
| 24 | ’ … frightened when I arrived in London today , ’ he heard Tessa saying at some stage . |
| 25 | Reports from the clergy in some of the affected dioceses show that they were perplexed by the variety and number of the movements emerging at this time . |
| 26 | Now the Berlin wall is coming down , and with the two Germanies uniting at this very point , the big question is — what to do with the bunker ? |
| 27 | Parents working at all levels in businesses can begin to establish empathy with the school work of their children and contribute to it in the workplace , or the school or at home . |
| 28 | Lorries will be observing three different limits and coaches going at another different speed . |
| 29 | What stance is the opponent using at any time ? |
| 30 | To understand why Jews should be bothered by Catholics praying at this site it is necessary to go back to the role played by the Catholic Church in fomenting antisemitism , the passivity of the Pope during the war while the exterminations were underway and even the suspicions caused by the reception of Austrian President Kurt Waldheim , with his dubious war record , by the present Pope , John Paul II ( from Poland ) . |