Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I had left him for Bath , he had said , sadly , seeing me off at Salamanca station : ‘ I should have come with you when your father died . |
| 2 | To generate a biological molecule like haemoglobin , the red pigment in blood , by simple sieving would be equivalent to taking all the amino-acid building blocks of haemoglobin , jumbling them up at random , and hoping that the haemoglobin molecule would reconstitute itself by sheer luck . |
| 3 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 4 | It is clear that the derivation of the high number of word paths from mid-classes and the problem of filtering them out at the lexical access stage means that syntactic/semantic information must be brought to bear as soon as words are accessed . |
| 5 | Mike said , ‘ TCT are doing a sequel and a prequel to ‘ T is ’ and bringing them out at the same time . ’ |
| 6 | She had a way of shaping them into round balls , raising her arms in a wide , swinging movement and hurling them straight at Elizabeth . |
| 7 | You know it , it was good and that 's , you know , and that 's not knocking you apart at all |
| 8 | In spite of his explanations they 'd insisted on signing him out at the little cabin , and he 'd snatched the case out of his car and run back , wondering why it always rained . |
| 9 | Dozens of journalists blocked his path , almost knocking him over at one stage , and firing non-stop questions at him . |
| 10 | Once it was dry , Louise styled Kukkay 's hair by twisting it up at the back to create fullness on top while still leaving it curly and ‘ free ’ . |
| 11 | Only an organisation of this kind was capable of doing justice to the cause of the deaf and dumb and of representing it properly at national level . |
| 12 | tossing us out at the wall . |
| 13 | ‘ She was picking them up at random and saying things like , ‘ This boy 's in a wheelchair but that does n't stop him giving me the eye , ’ or , ‘ This is the college stud but he cuts no ice with me . ’ ’ |
| 14 | Mind you , the accountant , C.J. Broderick , soon saw what was happening , but it took the best part of a year to re-arrange matters so that the newspaper could save money by hiring me back at $28 per week . |
| 15 | Like copepods , these 3–4mm brownish worms thrive in overfed aquaria , and can only be eradicated by syphoning them out at every opportunity , which may take months . |
| 16 | Start filling them in at least a week before you embark on the diet , so that you have a ‘ base-line ’ from which to judge the effect of the diet . |
| 17 | A car is picking me up at 1.30 to take me to Thames T.V. to be made up as a Chinese coolie . |
| 18 | Glen 's picking me up at half six , yeah |
| 19 | We got a same day driver picking me up at five fo , five thirty outside the hotel . |
| 20 | He 's fitting you in at the end of all his appointments . ’ |
| 21 | No he 's picking you up at night |
| 22 | Images flickered across the disordered screen of her mind — Rune provocatively , dominantly angry at their first meeting ; Rune , eyes shuttered , playing ‘ her ’ song ; Rune , mouth tender , eyes laughing as he had watched the children playing at the funfair in Tivoli ; Rune , seeking her out at her hotel , deliberately drawing her into his life ; Rune , his blond head bent , handling her damaged foot with such tenderness ; Rune … |
| 23 | The bell for Compline rang , the time she had set herself for hounding him out at the wicket , into a world he was , perhaps , already beginning to regret surrendering , but which he might have found none too hospitable to a runaway Benedictine novice . |
| 24 | Everyone would know he 'd become Rosa 's suitor , now that he 'd been to the house and paid a call after meeting her secretly at night . |
| 25 | He remembered surprising her once at work . |
| 26 | ‘ I see he bred a good hater , ’ said Isambard , looking him over at leisure as he held him , and smiling at what he found . |
| 27 | She was confused , one of her friends was picking her up at the studios that afternoon , not M. Apéritif , but a doe-eyed Persian who was — he said — training to be an engineer . |
| 28 | She could never ignore them as she passed them on the street , and they , as if they sensed it , turned to her , picking her out at once from a throng of a hundred other pedestrians as the one who saw and heard them . |
| 29 | But Chapman accepted that the short , stocky James was one of football 's great characters , an outstanding individualist who liked to do things his own way , like living it up at West End night clubs until the early hours . |
| 30 | Turn on the radio and on every station The Eagles are ‘ Living it up at de Hotel California ’ . |