Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [verb] at the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Objectors and supporters wanting to speak at the inquiry were asked to complete forms listing the witnesses they intended calling and roughly how long each piece of evidence would take . |
| 2 | In his Sonnets Shakespeare achieved the rather remarkable feat of turning to new and individual ends a genre that had flourished throughout Europe for several centuries and was in effect beginning to die at the time when he wrote , in the mid 1590s . |
| 3 | I mean Jason and Kylie getting married at the age of seventeen or something and then like two months later getting and one of them moving to Tasmania . |
| 4 | Dig in when you can feel flower heads starting to form at the base . |
| 5 | I like it when when wh it floods in town and you can go down and watch foreigners standing looking at the roofs of their cars floating down the Ouse and you think Yeah ! . |
| 6 | A vehicle volunteering to stop at the zebra crossing can only stop one of the two lanes , with no control over the other . |
| 7 | I went to London two weeks running to look at the Tower ! ’ |
| 8 | With almost half the present team threatening to retire at the end of the season — and who can blame them if it means that they go out on a high note — this was excellent news . |
| 9 | Subsidence during this mature passive margin stage is driven by both thermal subsidence arising from the cooling of the margin as it moves away from the region of mantle upwelling located at the site of rifting , and by the isostatic loading caused by the growing wedge of sediment accumulating offshore . |
| 10 | There have been a number of studies attempting to look at the vexed question of the effect of healing of oesophagitis on oesophageal function . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's no one of any consequence in London at the moment , ’ she told him , ‘ but you wo n't be able to move for the millions of nobodies going to look at the Tower . ’ |
| 12 | Which is why you s when you set it up , you 've got to say , Well what are people going to do at the end of the workshop , that demonstrates that they 've learnt something from it ? |
| 13 | No longer does he have to hover over the rod trying to strike at the slightest movement . |
| 14 | Earlier Kevin McNamara , Labour 's shadow Northern Ireland Secretary , described his own meeting on Ulster policy as ‘ overshadowed by a man coming to gloat at the scene of one the gravest blows to democracy carried out in these islands : the bombing of the Conservative Party conference ’ . |
| 15 | It rolled along the road coming to rest at the edge of the headlight beam . |
| 16 | Reversing its gains of Thursday , the FT-SE slipped back 28.9 to 2697.5 as profit taking dominated at the end of the account . |
| 17 | ( Abrams was a young , bright , sharp lawyer , always well-tailored , and with an air of fierce aceticism ; he will reappear often in this story as a man trying to keep at the edge of it , and usually succeeding . |
| 18 | Lindsey was still breathing hard as she strode through hospital reception , with an effort managing to smile at the small group of people sitting there before going through to the consulting-room and flinging her jacket on to the nearest chair . |
| 19 | He was lying in the space between the two large central examination tables , face downwards , his left hand seeming to claw at the floor , his right arm hunched beneath him His legs were straight . |
| 20 | a game played by holding in the closed hand one or two items , the other player having to guess at the number . |
| 21 | The van having arrived at the weighbridge , she got out , but was instructed to get back in as she was ‘ part of the load ’ . |