Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [v-ing] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taken aback , he mentioned the football match to be fought on New Year 's Day between the Repertory company and the pantomime cast of Treasure Island appearing at the Empire . |
| 2 | That the Rev. C. G. Hamilton having at the suggestion of the Governors agreed to retire from the Headmastership on a pension , the Governors beg respectfully to suggest £150 per annum as such pension , and ask the advice of the Charity Commissioners on the subject . " |
| 3 | Interferon is of course not a new discovery — it was first reported in 1957 by Alick Isaacs and Jean Lindenmann working at the National Institute for Medical Research in London . |
| 4 | However , when I heard Mr. Gorbachev speaking at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg in 1989 , about a common European home , I could perceive an image of Europe that made me feel far more European than I had ever done before . |
| 5 | Mr Justice Jowitt commenting at the trial of Ernest Coveley , accused of carrying out a series of robberies with a cucumber The escargot laying season is between June and September . |
| 6 | When I 'd left the horse in the yard and gone in for breakfast I found both Mackie and Sam Yaeger sitting at the table with Tremayne , all of them discussing that day 's racing at Nottingham . |
| 7 | Hearing the tramp of marching feet , he looked up to see Captain Warre riding at the head of his company . |
| 8 | NEWCASTLE did not rush to reinstate experienced Brian Kilcline recently — and no wonder with young Steve Howey blossoming at the back . |
| 9 | Lord Attenborough arriving at the newly-restored Magdalen bridge in Oxford . |
| 10 | Paddy was sitting with his back to the Land Rover looking at the map . |
| 11 | A WHIFF of competition sent shares in United States chip maker Intel tumbling at the end of March , wiping more than a fifth off the value of what is arguably Silicon Valley 's most important firm . |
| 12 | ODDEST sight of the week : top Tory ‘ mandarin ’ Allan Clarke giggling at the readers ' tips in Viz : ‘ Taxi drivers , why not pop into your local garage and have your indicators fixed then the rest of us would know where you 're going … |
| 13 | ‘ With George Courtney retiring at the end of the season , we 're hopeful that somebody from the North-East will get on the Football League list , and with luck , it could be me . ’ |
| 14 | Claire Samways blasted the ball off Alison Vance , the Portadown keeper , but it fell to Jeanette Turner loitering at the post and she spun on the ball firing it in from an acute angle . |
| 15 | In August 1939 , Don Bennett inaugurated two-way regular Atlantic services , aided by Alan Cobham 's Flight Refuelling Company — yet another first , with Capt Jack Kelly Rogers starting at the New York end of the route . |
| 16 | Lady Dedlock staying at the Hotel Bristol , Place Vendôme , is ‘ bored to death ’ there ( a Parisian Sunday described : people ‘ playing with children among the clipped trees and the statues in the [ Tuileries ] Palace Garden ; walking , a score abreast , in the Elysian Fields , made more Elysian by performing dogs and wooden houses ; between whiles filtering ( a few ) through the gloomy Cathedral of our Lady , to say a word or two at the base of a pillar , within flare of a rusty little gridiron full of gusty little tapers ’ ) , BH 12 . |
| 17 | He turned to see Nurse Lambert smiling at the door . |
| 18 | DeVreer typified the kind of Los Angeles thinking at the time among the youngsters who listened to his vitriolic demolition of the Californian life . |
| 19 | He also wrote to Prime Minister John Major protesting at the recent Durham County Council decision to close eight of its homes . |
| 20 | In reality , it was a thinly disguised plug for the world 's most attractive rock weekly , and featured such vital footage as Peter Walsh photographing Stuart Maconie pissing in the Dry Bar toilets and James Brown looking at the ceiling . |
| 21 | The ultimate obsessional tragedy , of course , was John Lennon dying at the hands of superfan Mark Chapman outside his New York apartment building . |