Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in poor families , many youngsters spend Saturdays earning money or helping at home , which prevents them attending such classes . |
| 2 | Effective teaching & learning at key stage 3 : teacher & pupil perspective |
| 3 | There had been no buying or selling at Seamer for very many years , but in 1987 hundreds of gypsies arrived with the intention of reviving the horse trading which used to take place . |
| 4 | In the event of a second conviction for a like offence , a member is liable , in addition to the penalties already named , to be adjudged to be for ever incapable of holding any public office , and to be incapable for five years of being registered as an elector or voting at an election either of members to serve in Parliament or of members of any public body . |
| 5 | 1807 " The Meeting having revised the Consideration of last year 's resolution respecting the Restriction as to the Liquor … now think that this restriction is not necessary … the Constables shall also be prohibited from Eating or Drinking at the Expence of the Publick . " |
| 6 | She slumped in the far corner of the white Corniche and watched her mother nervously hugging the steering wheel and peering at the road ahead . |
| 7 | Another woman explains how a food co-operative has been set up , buying in bulk and selling at no profit to members . |
| 8 | In addition , a number of distinguished judges have admitted to breaching the exclusionary rule and looking at Hansard in order to seek the intention of Parliament . |
| 9 | In fact , one piece of wood makes up the side of the guitar , all the way from the endpin , round the left-hand side , behind the neck and ending at the point of the cutaway . |
| 10 | But she is excellent in the play-extracts , lending Amanda in Private Lives just the right touch of acid mockery and hinting at a whole world of repressed longing as the suburban wife in Still Life ( the embryonic version of Brief Encounter ) . |
| 11 | In a chair opposite sat Tom who was drinking tea and looking at a book . |
| 12 | Journalists sought to divide universities into ‘ premier league ’ universities which would do research and teaching at a high level , and the others . |
| 13 | Okay well it will be interesting to see what er what other people have , have said about it because I was sort of fishing around a bit in the dark and looking at the stats manual |
| 14 | His itinerary will include a talk and reading at Poetry Live in Middlesbrough , workshops in Berwick and Hexham , readings in Newcastle and Darlington , and talks to pupils in schools at Darlington , Hexham and Bishop Auckland . |
| 15 | On Thursday we drew the whole thing together ending up with team practice and looking at the videos in the evening . |
| 16 | He looked around and saw that the third man was now lying over the roof of the light blue car and firing at them with what he took to be an M1 carbine . |
| 17 | Looking back , he saw that the gang were pounding his fallen friend with lumps of concrete so he decided to help by jumping into his car and driving at full speed towards them . |
| 18 | Sea waybills have reduced some of the above uncertainties by limiting the number of qualified issuers , minimizing the possibilities of fraud and arriving at the port of destination prior to arrival of the goods . |
| 19 | Then he would go to his study and attend to his own writing , characteristically composing straight onto the typewriter and standing at a kind of lectern . |
| 20 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 21 | A much more unusual kind of tonal conflict is occasionally found where composers add one piece of music to another , as in the works of Charles Ives , where the strains of a military band or an organ may be added to the orchestra , in a different key and moving at a different tempo . |
| 22 | Sad Joanna told detectives she dreaded the thought of eating and drinking at parties over the holiday period . |
| 23 | Making hats for a living and looking at them all day long has mellowed her taste somewhat . |
| 24 | All I can do is lie in bed , listening to the howling wind and staring at the grey northern sky . |
| 25 | Or side by side and touching at the hips , |
| 26 | ‘ She could write a little essay on any subject , exactly a slate long , beginning at the left-hand top of one side and ending at the right-hand bottom of the other , and the essay should be strictly according to rule . ’ |
| 27 | A young motorist who crashed into another car while reversing at a fast speed escaped a driving ban at Whitby magistrates yesterday . |
| 28 | It had been derailed at the entrance while approaching at speed with a sleeper service from Penzance ; miraculously there were no serious injuries , though much of the track at the station throat had to be relaid . |
| 29 | There may well be a modest marble tombstone for Mr Dowd somewhere in Saratoga Springs ; but each time the television continuity announcer advertises a forthcoming programme as showing at ‘ 9 pm Eastern , 8 Central and Mountain ’ then one might say of the late Professor , si monumentum requiris , circumspice . |
| 30 | To illustrate the conceptual basis of her thinking when arriving at a public relations platform on which to build a campaign for a consumer client , no better example could be found than her approach to the problem of one international manufacturing giant . |