Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adv] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except for the steady drum of drops , the wind in the trees and the waves slapping angrily at rock , there was silence . |
| 2 | She says that there 's quite a lot of crime in the village , with cars driving through at night , break-in 's , etc . |
| 3 | The days passed with the jeeps carrying the dead and wounded from the forward areas stopping briefly at Brigade H.Q on their way to the beaches . |
| 4 | Death becomes the way out of deep hurts , the unexpressed griefs and resentments eating away at self over the years . |
| 5 | They lost most of their pilots flying solo at night . |
| 6 | In Darwin 's version pangenesis could not be squared with these cytological generalizations ; for , if each of the two masses of gemmules coming together at fertilization is taken to be one cell , then it has not arisen in the division of one cell in that parent ; while , if each is taken to be a myriad of cells , then far too many are coming together at fertilization . |
| 7 | The 1908 Select Committee did not , however , include a discussion of these workers in its report on homework , classifying families working together at home under the category of domestic workshops . |
| 8 | BREATHLESS PHONE calls first thing in the morning ; indecipherable typescripts bristling with spidery illustrations ; wild-eyed magnetic levitationists turning up at reception — New Scientist has dealt with the British inventor in his most extreme forms . |
| 9 | When benefits in kind are considered , the balance of the redistribution is in fact significantly in favour of the most prosperous households that typically enjoy more take-up of education through children staying on at school and more benefits with regard to health care . |
| 10 | In another context Mao Qing and Mar Molinero ( 1986 ) argue that for school pupils staying on at school after the minimal school leaving age the mid-1970s were the last time that external factors such as high youth unemployment did not influence demand . |
| 11 | In the British study , pupils staying on at school until the age of 18 achieved much higher scores on political knowledge than did those leaving school at 16 . |
| 12 | Of the two ‘ new risks ’ which Beveridge saw women taking on at marriage , only one — widowhood — was beyond the control of the insured couple . |