Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [v-ing] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1807 " The Meeting having revised the Consideration of last year 's resolution respecting the Restriction as to the Liquor … now think that this restriction is not necessary … the Constables shall also be prohibited from Eating or Drinking at the Expence of the Publick . " |
| 2 | She slumped in the far corner of the white Corniche and watched her mother nervously hugging the steering wheel and peering at the road ahead . |
| 3 | In fact , one piece of wood makes up the side of the guitar , all the way from the endpin , round the left-hand side , behind the neck and ending at the point of the cutaway . |
| 4 | Okay well it will be interesting to see what er what other people have , have said about it because I was sort of fishing around a bit in the dark and looking at the stats manual |
| 5 | On Thursday we drew the whole thing together ending up with team practice and looking at the videos in the evening . |
| 6 | Sea waybills have reduced some of the above uncertainties by limiting the number of qualified issuers , minimizing the possibilities of fraud and arriving at the port of destination prior to arrival of the goods . |
| 7 | All I can do is lie in bed , listening to the howling wind and staring at the grey northern sky . |
| 8 | Or side by side and touching at the hips , |
| 9 | ‘ She could write a little essay on any subject , exactly a slate long , beginning at the left-hand top of one side and ending at the right-hand bottom of the other , and the essay should be strictly according to rule . ’ |
| 10 | These might now be labelled ‘ fundamental principles ’ and it is important to bear them in mind when looking at the limitations of the legal aid scheme ( Pollock , 1975 ) : |
| 11 | Some of them have spent more terms in schools than others — which must be borne in mind when looking at the position of an individual pupil — but all those factors even out in the local authorities . |
| 12 | I see its loss as lying at the root of many current social problems . ’ |
| 13 | Chrissie leaned down , placing the school lunches on Linda 's lap and wiping at the girl 's eyes with a handkerchief . |
| 14 | But before she could settle to it , there was a sudden scrambling and slithering at the bottom of the slope . |
| 15 | And he started thumping the sand and wailing at the seagulls — real Play for Today stuff — and an elderly couple who were listening to a radio behind a wind-break looked quite alarmed . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's the only castle I 've ever seen that I can imagine living in , ’ she said , standing in the upper gallery and gazing at the magnificent views from the windows . |
| 17 | Kildare and return and booking at the moment is reported to be brisk . |
| 18 | ‘ Do I give that impression ? ’ she asked , switching off the ignition and wondering at the stupidity of people . |
| 19 | Gold EIA went ahead to commission the Centre for Environmental Management and Planning at the University of Aberdeen to undertake the first phase of the EIA , its scoping . |
| 20 | you make your sound and you carry on and on and on , I 'm gon na keep on taping different people 's make their sound and then we 're gon na see what it feels like you 're in hospital , okay , now it does n't matter if somebody 's got the same sound as somebody else , it 's no big deal , alright , because eventually they 'll all blend into each other , but as soon as I 've tapped you , make your sound , alright patients , come on where 's the machines ? okay , stop , now when did it start becoming out of hand ? , at one stage we did n't really know where we were to , once , once I say ten people , okay , and that was also due to the fact that we had perhaps too many erm patients moaning , alright , it was good in one respect because why , it made obvious that we were in a , a hospital well something like , but erm when you 're in smaller groups and you 're making your sound machines , obviously it 's much easier to control and to make the overall sound more realistic , do n't you think ? , so , mm , what we 're going to do is we 're going to get into different groups , into groups of four , five , no big deal , you 're welcome to only if you want to , and , you 're going to , each group is going to choose er a profession , okay , you can be brick layers , you can be er musicians , er you can be er gardener , I mean absolutely you can be factory workers , you can be absolutely anything , and what you 're going to do is you 're going to choose , each person will choose a sound which is represented of that particular person , er profession , okay , and you 'll going to make your sounds simultaneously so that as for the audience who are simply listening to you can just close our eyes cos we wo n't , you wo n't be acting you 'll be making these sounds and using , we 'll close our eyes and we 'll know exactly where we are , okay , and then after that once we 've done that just , before you choose your profession to know what this is going to lead onto , after that we 're going to put movements to that profession , so when , if you were in a factory going er putting bottles on , on top top of bottles , you would have the movements going and you would have the sound going and I want you to build up , up , the sound machine which becomes the movement machine as well , so you 're almost robotic so you , shh , shh , or whatever , however your sound , and each person does their thing in the factory or where ever they are and we will be able to see from listening and looking at the movements and obviously remember just because you 're not an example it does n't mean you ca n't talk , there might be for instance there would be a doctor going stand back , stand back , you know , er , in , in the you can use voices , but also obviously very , very effective to have sound voices , shh , shh , to create that part of it , have instruments , but this is how they actually started lay down sound tracks for movies , people specialize |
| 21 | But her mother 's letter introduced into her head again that debilitating pressure she had felt in hospital — the feeling which was the opposite of sitting in her watch-tower and gazing at the sky . |
| 22 | In a sense Mao is , is adopting very much the position that he seems to have taken erm in nineteen forty five when he 's , he 's looking forward to land return but saying at the moment our policy of rent reduction , interest rate reduction will continue and at some stage we will then be able to move on into , to that reform . |
| 23 | She knew she did not want to be an employee or to set up on her own and accepted a position as Recorder on the South-East Circuit while looking at the appointments pages in the newspapers . |
| 24 | McEwan and Sylvester ( 1984 ) describe the work as beginning at the point where words fail by creating ‘ … evocations of mood and sensation more than visual records ’ ( p. 10 ) . |
| 25 | There can be no logical distinction between that case and looking at the draft Bill to see that the statute as enacted reproduced , often in the same words , the provision in the Law Commissions 's draft . |
| 26 | TWO men have appeared in court in connection with a gang fight and shooting at the Market Trader pub in Kirkby . |
| 27 | TWO men have appeared in court on charges following a gang fight and shooting at the Market Trader pub , Kirkby . |
| 28 | ‘ What on earth has happened to you ? ’ gasped Ethel , untying the gag and pulling at the knots in the sash and rope . |
| 29 | And , perhaps going back a bit and looking at the history of the last ten years , it is important to realize that we have developed small centres as well as large ones . |
| 30 | Now , one man was examining the steel tubes and struts of the scaffolding , dusting the surfaces with aluminium powder and squinting at the result through a lens ; another was on his knees scrutinising the staging planks in case some fibres from the killer 's clothing had become caught in the rough grain of the wood . |