Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The police say the best they could do with the car travelling at such high speeds was to keep track of it . |
| 5 | At its most extreme limits of informality the interview could be carried out with the interviewer taking no notes or tape recording at all . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There 's that one of the man and the woman in the boat smiling at each other . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I remember we sat there all afternoon looking at that wonderful picture and planning our poem in our heads . |
| 11 | You know there was there was no other work going at that time . |
| 12 | The 1947 Press Commission had already pointed it out — but the proportion sharing at that time was only one-fifth . |
| 13 | What stance is the opponent using at any time ? |
| 14 | The noise in the taproom stilled for a moment , even the farmers in the corner drunkenly arguing about the price of wheat ; two harridans from the town shrieking at each other over an upturned barrel ; and a group of young bloods , garishly dressed in costly silks , noisily roistering before a night out on the town . |
| 15 | With inadequate communications between UN units , rudimentary command and control structures , governments interpreting the UN resolution in different ways , relief supplies being administered through a totally separate UN agency , and the Vance-Owen initiative developing at another level altogether , it is hardly surprising that the international effort can appear confused . |
| 16 | Right then we , we 'll leave some of the physics and stuff that we 've been doing behind now and just spend one lecture looking at some chemistry which I know will be equally popular . |
| 17 | This is , I 've got my from school , it says , I was shopping in town looking at some clothes when , suddenly I got pulled back from one of the , the changing room . |
| 18 | ‘ Further , as the minister of state , Lord Fraser , said recently , we currently have a major interdepartmental working group looking at all aspects of criminal justice legislation besides some eight other working groups looking at particular aspects of the system . |
| 19 | For example , with the white population growing at less than I per cent per year between 1980 and 1986 , many white schools have suffered dramatic falls in enrolments . |
| 20 | He did n't even try to kiss her , which was very noticeable , as they spent most of the evening staring at each other , feeling electricity crackle between them every time they accidentally touched , and , by the time Rachel left , her stomach was clenched in a knot of intolerable excitement . |
| 21 | He recollects vividly the outstanding singles performances of Bill Thompson and Diane Underwood and with the final match standing at 2-all his team went on to dominate the doubles and lift the trophy . |
| 22 | There 's no point discussing at this stage the pros and cons — better to learn to stay on your feet and make sure you keep the ball available for use in ruck and maul ’ . |
| 23 | three quarters of those are fee earning at any one time . |
| 24 | You 're not Welsh speaking at all , are you ? |
| 25 | It was a delight to have Bedu teaching at this year 's Easter Course at Aston Clinton . |
| 26 | Wedged neatly between his route flying at this period was a rescue operation to collect Gen Sikorski 's staff who were making their way to the South of France , hotly pursued by the Germans . |
| 27 | The problem with trying to make any general evaluation of support teaching at this stage , however , is that no generally agreed definition of support teaching actually exists . |
| 28 | The level of premium paid to insure against an event depends obviously upon the likelihood or risk of the event occurring at all and the level of compensation or benefit to be paid when it does . |
| 29 | Symptoms are changes from the normal state of a person occurring at any level of his being and would range from changes of mood or behaviour to physical things like pains , temperature reactions , colour changes , sweats etc . |
| 30 | James is a good teacher and we have great fun laughing at each other 's mistakes . |