Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we make the ( unrealistic ) assumption that , in driving some variables to integer values , the other variable values do not change much , we can estimate the optimal objective function value of the integer down-problem created by branching on at node k to be where z k is the optimal objective function value of LPk . |
| 2 | The big western lakes , Conn , Corrib and Mask , are producing little at present and the Galway Weir produced only five salmon for the week in spite of excellent conditions for fly fishing . |
| 3 | Before his last throw of the dice he had been hanging on at Etten in hopes of a visit from Mauve , who had half promised to come and initiate him into ‘ the mysteries of the palette ’ . |
| 4 | He 's struggling along at present with fifty or so sheep , growing a bit of food for himself along with his winter feed for the beasts . |
| 5 | He rose , flashing down at Harry the easy , sidelong smile of a born conspirator . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , a close relationship was sustained , each Sunday evening saw the three brothers and their wives and children gathering together at Rachel Cohen 's home in highly convivial mood , Leonard 's grandmother being especially delighted in her firstborn 's firstborn . |
| 7 | Chances are , a Boeing jetliner is touching down at New York right now . |
| 8 | After touching down at Antigua 's V C Bird airport , the party boarded a Carib Air airplane to the nearby island of Nevis , where the party will stay at the ‘ spartan ’ 16-room Montpelier Plantation Inn . |
| 9 | Giant Hercules transport aircraft were touching down at Aldergrove Airport every few minutes . |
| 10 | ‘ And when I see him hobbling in at night , I am very proud of him . ’ |
| 11 | If you want her , you can fight for her and win her fair and square , and no more sneaking in at doors before honest men are out of their beds . |
| 12 | Wade John Frankum , 33 , hacked a 15 year-old girl to death with a machete before rampaging through the shopping complex firing randomly at bystanders . |
| 13 | You do not have to be a Marxist to see that the official statistics of unemployment include only those who are signing on at Job Centres and are eligible for benefit . |
| 14 | Mildred closed her eyes again , hoping that perhaps it was only a nightmare , but when she sneaked another look , the apparition was still there , and now it began patting gently at Mildred with its gigantic paws . |
| 15 | They used to go off painting together at week-ends , often in Burger 's boat , and they spent quite long holidays abroad . |
| 16 | And she knows that the secret of laughter is shared experience — laughing together at disasters and embarrassments that can happen to us all . |
| 17 | It was n't until her mother had issued those ridiculous and unnecessary warnings over driving alone at night that the idiocy of her own attitude had dawned on her . |
| 18 | HUNDREDS of people were checking in at New York 's JFK airport , but one face stood out from the crowd . |
| 19 | Dr Groome fiddled with the slab and Ella Raines came up , walking alone at night along a deserted railroad platform . |
| 20 | TWO dozen people are grunting , straining and tearing away at heads and arms — watched by another member of the Judo Club . |
| 21 | ‘ Is this where I make the noble suggestion of keeping away at weekends to leave you free to sail as much as you want ? ’ he demanded . |
| 22 | The sound from next door had risen to a mechanical drumbeat , like a pneumatic drill hammering away , it was him , banging and banging away at Jenny , she could almost hear the girl 's screams . |
| 23 | She says that there 's quite a lot of crime in the village , with cars driving through at night , break-in 's , etc . |
| 24 | Sloping off at croup . |
| 25 | A twenty-three year old woman has been accused of causing the death of another woman by driving dangerously at speeds of up to 90 miles an hour with her one-year-old daughter on her lap . |
| 26 | In its drive stood a Japanese four-wheel-drive vehicle and as Meredith looked across the laburnum hedge at it , a woman of about her own age came out of the house , slamming the door crossly , got into the vehicle and reversed out into the road , driving off at speed . |
| 27 | My ides of real rape is , say , a woman walking home at night and dragged into an entry and forcefully raped . |
| 28 | The couple were walking home at midnight in February when Watson struck . |
| 29 | Instead , he was living in a north London flat and working weekdays in a City bank , returning home at night to a difficult marriage . |
| 30 | An LGB circular of 1871 proclaimed that out-door relief should not be given to single women unless they proved their inability to find other employment by performing a daily labour task , officially termed a ‘ labour test ’ , such as cleaning , in the workhouse , returning home at night . |