Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a moment that is likely to reshape the strategic thinking of traditional , print-on-paper publishers , perhaps encouraging them at last to re-define their activities and participate more extensively in information media of all kinds . |
| 2 | She unfolded the page of blue paper and focused on the letter instead , hardly understanding it at first reading . |
| 3 | Her father pressed a kiss to her forehead , and smiled , releasing her at last . |
| 4 | Releasing her at last , he stepped back . |
| 5 | Every time she saw him again after an absence she stood aside humbly , expecting him at last to have reached the age when she was an embarrassment , expecting him to shuffle his feet and colour and do no more than extend a cool hand , and she would have held none of this against him . |
| 6 | He was just over three hours late to meet his guide , locating him at last on the edge of a ruck of Army drivers , forlorn in Air Force blue . |
| 7 | He 's costing me a fortune in tights — I wondered who 'd been taking them at first . |
| 8 | ‘ Ah , Thiercelin , ’ said Epitot , spotting him at last . |