Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [verb] at " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In his Sonnets Shakespeare achieved the rather remarkable feat of turning to new and individual ends a genre that had flourished throughout Europe for several centuries and was in effect beginning to die at the time when he wrote , in the mid 1590s . |
| 2 | By Wednesday the 208 had been reduced by 100 after four rounds , the cut having come at four over par . |
| 3 | By Wednesday the 208 had been reduced by 100 after four rounds , the cut having come at four over par . |
| 4 | At eighty five bid standing standing at eighty five against you all seated now , at ninety pounds , standing at the back and I 'll sell at ninety pounds , are you all done , ninety pounds ninety five just in time one hundred one ten one twenty one thirty one thirty still on the left at the back at one thirty , any more now at a hundred and thirty pounds ? |
| 5 | The most recent , and it 's quite exciting , is to use magnetic resonance imaging to look at erm nuclei in the body and to see what they 're doing and where they are , and that 's going to be very exciting but it involves having a very very large magnet in which one puts a whole patient all at once . |
| 6 | There seemed little point in er a wife and a child sitting looking at their husband/father er with no clothes on . |
| 7 | A vehicle volunteering to stop at the zebra crossing can only stop one of the two lanes , with no control over the other . |
| 8 | Hatton , Monk and Folan denied a similar charge relating to land at Brownlow Hill , Liverpool between July 1987 and January 1988 . |
| 9 | A mechanism which was proposed in Chapter 2 for explaining the inverted-U relationship was that of attention focusing occurring at higher levels of arousal in line with Easterbrook 's hypothesis . |
| 10 | With almost half the present team threatening to retire at the end of the season — and who can blame them if it means that they go out on a high note — this was excellent news . |
| 11 | As children mature they may be prepared to share one ball between two , or play with an adult in a small group taking turns at catching or rolling a ball . |
| 12 | Subsidence during this mature passive margin stage is driven by both thermal subsidence arising from the cooling of the margin as it moves away from the region of mantle upwelling located at the site of rifting , and by the isostatic loading caused by the growing wedge of sediment accumulating offshore . |
| 13 | ‘ MANY as are the virtues of the Moon under Water I think that the garden is the best feature , because it allows whole families to go there instead of Mum having to stay at home and mind baby while Dad goes out alone . |
| 14 | It was intended that the Commission 's proposals should be agreed by the Council of Ministers in October 1990 and be implemented by January 1992 ; but the employee participation element in particular is controversial , and animated discussions have taken place , with various Committees of the European Parliament having commented at length and suggested a plethora of amendments . |
| 15 | Willy Russell 's story of a hair-dresser seeking to learn at any price via her reluctant and sozzled tutor continues to stand the test of time . |
| 16 | No longer does he have to hover over the rod trying to strike at the slightest movement . |
| 17 | Stockier build than Common Gull ( p. 153 ) with white wing-tips , heavy red bill appearing to droop at tip , and longer red legs , while winter and immature birds usually have dark smudge through eye . |
| 18 | Earlier Kevin McNamara , Labour 's shadow Northern Ireland Secretary , described his own meeting on Ulster policy as ‘ overshadowed by a man coming to gloat at the scene of one the gravest blows to democracy carried out in these islands : the bombing of the Conservative Party conference ’ . |
| 19 | But her ear plugs were not impregnable and — the music having stopped at last — she did hear a tap on the door . |
| 20 | It rolled along the road coming to rest at the edge of the headlight beam . |
| 21 | After returning to Bombay early in 1858 he was appointed the East India Company 's agent in Zanzibar and British consul , the previous consul having died at his post thirteen months previously . |
| 22 | MCI CAPITAL SPENDING TO PEAK AT $1,6000M |
| 23 | Reversing its gains of Thursday , the FT-SE slipped back 28.9 to 2697.5 as profit taking dominated at the end of the account . |
| 24 | ( Abrams was a young , bright , sharp lawyer , always well-tailored , and with an air of fierce aceticism ; he will reappear often in this story as a man trying to keep at the edge of it , and usually succeeding . |
| 25 | Look at this owl sitting looking at us . |
| 26 | With City struggling to defend at set pieces , Strachan again planted a free kick into the penalty area where David Wetherall released Gary Speed whose left foot shot gave Tony Coton no chance . |
| 27 | Now how is a pensions regulator going to look at those thirty transactions , therefore are you not effectively saying that the pensions regulator may work in areas where pensions regulation actually works now . |
| 28 | Lindsey was still breathing hard as she strode through hospital reception , with an effort managing to smile at the small group of people sitting there before going through to the consulting-room and flinging her jacket on to the nearest chair . |
| 29 | He was lying in the space between the two large central examination tables , face downwards , his left hand seeming to claw at the floor , his right arm hunched beneath him His legs were straight . |
| 30 | Once a huge golden eagle circled above a wreck and I intercepted a couple hiking to call at a Crofter 's cottage for assistance because I was loathe to leave the area to the eagle . |