Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] a [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The six , among 55 individuals banned by a High Court judge from trespassing on or causing a nuisance at the site , joined 500 others in a peaceful invasion of the construction site ; 27 were arrested . |
| 2 | To adopt too critical or enquiring a position at this stage would be to run the risk of alienation . |
| 3 | If any one should think that the women 's earnings are stated too low in these accounts , he will be convinced that they are not , on considering that these women commonly begin the world with an infant , and are mere nurses for ten or twelve years after marriage , being always either with child , or having a child at the breast ; consequently incapable of doing much other work beside the necessary businesses of their families , such as baking , washing , and the like . |
| 4 | More passive , less constructive activity with little or no end result , will have been the norm , like watching television or having a pint at the local pub . |
| 5 | That is , of course , when I was n't actually casting an eye at the rope and pulley high over the hall or taking a glance at the shotgun . |
| 6 | It claims that operating a reactor at higher temperature , but lower pressure , would strengthen the welds . |
| 7 | Can you see how West could have defended the hand better other than leading a Club at the first trick ? |
| 8 | Put in blunt terms , many wives grumble that having a husband at home during the day means an extra meal to cook and inevitable disruption to their normal routine . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , aim to give the dog a good run every day , rather than undertaking a marathon at the weekend , for example . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been running three or four miles every day for a week , and using a trampoline at home to build up my fitness , and I 've been keeping a close eye on what I eat . |
| 11 | Ealdred was active within his archdiocese , building refectories for the communities at York and Southwell , and completing the refectory and dormitory and building a presbytery at Beverley , where he decorated the church with paintings and gave a bronze , silver , and gold pulpit and crucifix in the German style . |
| 12 | That individual was responsible for using hand skills and producing a result at the end of the day . |
| 13 | Now he suddenly reappeared , clad in nothing but a pair of nankeen trousers , rushing down the stairs and levelling a pistol at my head ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Through the raindrops which were snail-trailing across my visor as I accelerated , I could see a marshal on the start/finish line flapping his yellow flag at me and screwing a finger at his temple . |
| 16 | is this game all-ticket ? what are the chances for getting tickets and getting a seat at the away fans end ? i do not have a membership-card. i guess i could give it a try ( i have other tickets somewhere else ) |
| 17 | ‘ That 's where I saw you ! ’ he exclaimed , sitting up in his chair , and pointing a finger at her like a gun . |
| 18 | In a final statement issued at the close of the talks the group agreed to conduct an " urgent review " of the member countries ' negotiating positions towards finding greater flexibility and facilitating a breakthrough at the deadlocked " Uruguay Round " of global trade talks launched in 1986 under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) [ see pp. 37227-28 for most recent developments in Uruguay Round negotiations ] . |
| 19 | After being discharged and spending a year at home he was again hospitalized because he spent his time listening to the radio rather than studying . |
| 20 | At this stage I noticed that two of them were ‘ pairing off ’ and defending a rock at one end of the tank , their main targets being the other chromides , although no damage was done to the ‘ victims ’ . |
| 21 | Put your hand up , I ca Okay , it may be worth , in that case , having a look at past papers and having a go at writing the essays . |
| 22 | How about coming out to my farm and having a look at that sow I mentioned ? |
| 23 | ‘ I thought of walking down to the beach and having a hamburger at Pepe 's . ’ |
| 24 | unc diameter drift pins , turned to close tolerances to fit snugly into the jig drilled holes and having a head at one end and the other end tapered , for driving . |
| 25 | He preferred the sort of woman who put her foot in it with grammar and things ; that way he could feel superior by correcting her at the time and having a laugh at her expense later with his male colleagues . |
| 26 | And since even a polygonal story should have at least two sides in all international farewell orgies , how about packing it in and having a bash at normal behaviour eh , so as to get bashed again as whipping boy despite my morseled-out attempts to break free or go shiating on , turning the other cheek to sheer cheek as sitting target for the unclear missiles of affreux dizzy acts or as wailing wall of blame beyond the demarcation line or bowstring frontier that will boomerang back and much joy may it give me. ( 102 ) |
| 27 | I charged over rocks and taking a run at sand , found that the wheel would skate for short stretches . |
| 28 | This does not , however , apply to a contract made by someone visiting the Ideal Home Exhibition and making a contract at a trader 's exhibition stand . |
| 29 | On our last night in Vorarlberg , watching nine-month-old Elisabeth crawling round the dining room and finding a welcome at every table , it occurred to me that , right from babyhood , children instinctively know whether they 're welcome . |
| 30 | Her gift for sculpture was first observed when she was nine years old , still uneducated , and watching a stonemason at work in the local churchyard . |