Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fire crews have been tackling a blaze at a company in the Old Station Yard at Bicester . |
| 2 | FIREMEN last night spent several hours tackling a fire at Mordon Southside Farm near Mordon , Sedgefield . |
| 3 | It must be a trapped bird , he thought , noticing a door at the front where there was a partitioned-off section . |
| 4 | Soldiers put their shoulders to the wheels of a trolley representing a bobsleigh at Thorpe Park , Surrey , |
| 5 | Soldiers put their shoulders to the wheels of a trolley representing a bobsleigh at Thorpe Park , Surrey , yesterday . |
| 6 | After working as a structural engineering designer he was a draughtsman with aircraft firms before becoming a lecturer at the University of Glasgow in civil engineering and aeronautics ( 1922–39 ) . |
| 7 | There is a radioactive process — beta decay — which enables one of the protons to shed its charge , in effect becoming a neutron at the instant of fusing ( the electrical charge being carried off by a positively charged form of the electron , known as a positron ) , the proton and neutron fusing to make a deuteron and liberating energy . |
| 8 | The ‘ wicked step-mother , who was very beautiful ’ apparently expiated her crime by eventually becoming a nun at Wherwell . |
| 9 | Eadberht abdicated of his own accord in 758 , handing the kingdom over to his son , Oswulf , and becoming a cleric at York ( where he died in 768 ) , but Oswulf was killed within the year by his own household in 759 near the unidentified settlement of Methel Wongtun and replaced by Aethelwald Moll , who is likely to have been associated with those who were responsible for Oswulf 's murder ; nor did Eadberht 's descendants recover royal power for twenty years . |
| 10 | After becoming a professor at Königsberg in 1892 he obtained the chair at Göttingen in 1895 , a position held until his retirement in 1930 . |
| 11 | She dreamed of becoming a chef at school , but her domestic science teacher hated her and told her that she would never be a cook . |
| 12 | Julia Roberts ' beauty did n't stop Pretty Woman becoming a smash at the box office . |
| 13 | Some cottage ! she thought , quickly repressing a giggle at her own mistaken ideas as Ross and Ben Meadows entered the room . |
| 14 | Influencing a short , predictable , product-oriented transaction ( say purchasing a hamburger at a fast food restaurant ) would lend itself to prescriptive training techniques supported by highly specified procedures and standards . |
| 15 | He and Miss Harrison 's adopted mother Sheila Hutchinson were keeping a vigil at Middlesbrough General Hospital yesterday . |
| 16 | The Blakelocks were keeping a vigil at Jason 's bedside last night while his schoolfriend Tanya Dennis , of Chayter Terrace , Fishburn , waited for news . |
| 17 | And while Mr Stevens 's bride was keeping a round-the-clock at his hospital bedside , burglars ransacked their home . |
| 18 | Laughing a lot at life can help you to live longer . |
| 19 | By wrecking a motion at the time , rightly or wrongly placed and once again I see this afternoon we 've got a similar motion on the table . |
| 20 | But it has been further seen that strong justification is needed for adopting a system at variance with prevailing medical views . |
| 21 | Opening a brewery at a time when Britain 's drinkers are supping less beer than they used to might not seem like a good idea . |
| 22 | THE Tennent 's Irish Senior Cup semi-final draw has thrown up a repeat of last season 's final between Holywood and Lisnagarvey , with Instonians getting Avoca … but hopes of staging a double-header at Olympia Leisure have been scuppered . |
| 23 | Ghost hunters are staging a vigil at what 's claimed to be one of the most haunted houses in the country . |
| 24 | Employees from Shorts and Harland and Wolff shipyard will also show their overwhelming support by staging a demonstration at Dee Street roundabout . |
| 25 | POP group The Stranglers are staging a concert at Dartmoor prison on Friday , using a £10,000 sound system won by a warder . |
| 26 | RIBA has even proposed staging a debate at its headquarters in London 's Portland Place on the motion that ‘ volume housebuilders give insufficient thought to design , leaving innovation to the designers of individual homes ’ . |
| 27 | He was darting up to each of the dogs in turn , ears pricked , eyes blazing with devilment , dabbing a paw at them then streaking away . |
| 28 | Reid has had a memorable season and as the big autumn events loom up he must be relishing a crack at races like the Prix de l'arc de Triomphe and the Champion Stakes . |
| 29 | There was the famous occasion when he picked at a wall behind a bus stop while waiting for a bus and found a rare specimen fossil ; and the occasion when he cut his leg while climbing a rockface at Craigleith Quarry and failed to notice it until his Wellington boot was full of blood , whereupon he drove to the nearest hospital for stitches and a transfusion . |
| 30 | You might try driving a car at a brick wall at a 100 miles an hour on the off chance of coming to no harm at all , but please make sure you have renewed your NI subscription first . |