Example sentences of "[det] [v-ing] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was n't much talking at all until Mrs. Favor started after the McLaren girl . |
| 2 | They were all laughing at such ineptitude when Wainfleet telephoned . |
| 3 | The work which our consulting engineers have done in conjunction with engineers from York City Council , show in very broad terms , that the existing radial routes within the Greater York area , were all in the period around about nineteen ninety one , all operating at more or less , design capacity . |
| 4 | This had them all looking at each other . |
| 5 | The most coherent films to emerge from Elstree during this time were both set in the Edwardian era , Losey 's glorious The Go-Between ( 1970 ) and The Railway Children ( 1970 ) , with the latter aiming at that much-lamented but largely-departed family audience . |
| 6 | and they 're all waving at this helicopter and |
| 7 | All centuries , of course , have been centuries of change ; but few would deny that in the nineteenth century change was greatly accelerated ; that much was apparent to the more perceptive of those living at that time . |
| 8 | I might just say one other thing , though , that I think it 's a great mistake to see the I D S , which as I said is a national institute at Sussex , as somehow just a British institution on its own looking at these problems . |
| 9 | Also , the neck is so straight that the frets have needed hardly any dressing at all . |
| 10 | 4 to 5 is relatively easy and if someone starts off at 5 they do n't need any persuading at all ( attempts to persuade them may irritate them so much that they start to move to the left ! ) . |
| 11 | Make the ‘ low flags ’ area a nonstopping zone that is , retain the bus stops on the High Row side but do not allow any stopping at all on the lower side , say , from Woolworths to the Tubwell Row corner . |
| 12 | Now let me see you all get outside quietly — without any talking at all . " |
| 13 | ‘ I would n't have done any speculating at all , ’ she informed him in a trembling voice , ‘ if you could bring yourself to be honest with me ! ’ |
| 14 | We are only just beginning to recognize that if we take this attitude , we are denying to arts and letters , and to the criticism of them , any bearing at all on public life — including , for instance , public education . |
| 15 | Oh I 'm not just a pretty face I do n't remember what dates it has , make up three appropriate dates So they 're both coming at half past twelve , yeah ? |