Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] at the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since first encountering Gavrilov at the Touraine Music Festival in the mid-1970s , I 've thought him a player of infinite potential , with a technique of which legends are made . |
| 2 | Cooling comforts at the Cambridge |
| 3 | Che Guevara , representing Cuba at the OAS conference at punta del Este in Uruguay , instigated a meeting with the US delegate Richard Goodwin , who gave a full account of the conversation in a memo for president Kennedy dated 22 August 1961 ( ( US Declassified , 1978 , 303A ) . |
| 4 | Opening night at the Macintyre gallery brought a full house and the first buyer , the Duchess of York , could n't ; would n't be parted from her favourite picture . |
| 5 | A former Soho waiter and later assistant banqueting manager at the Savoy Hotel , he was interned when the war with Italy broke out , but was later released to join the Pioneer Corps . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , three hundred budding stars of the future will be trading shots at the Gloucester Leisure Centre tomorrow and Sunday in the Cotswold Championships . |
| 7 | Long queues were waiting for opening time at the Regent Street store in London , with the company 's Brighton , Exeter and Cheltenham stores also doing a roaring trade . |
| 8 | Tommy Gorman , acting convener at the Albion plant in Glasgow , added : ‘ I saw a staff manager leaving with a plastic bag and half-an-hour 's notice after 40-odd years of service . |
| 9 | Tommy Gorman , acting convener at the Albion plant , said Government policies were destroying industry in the West of Scotland and destroying the social fibre of the Scottish people in the process . |
| 10 | The union chiefs were urging workers at the Tyne yard to fight to complete work on three frigates being built there . |
| 11 | David MacRae is acting manager at the Gatwick Penta Hotel , following the departure of Norbert Hummel . |
| 12 | Every week , Alastair gets out of his bed at 4am to head for swimming training at the Robinson Centre with his Leander clubmates . |
| 13 | 23 Alcester , looking east at the Birch Abbey area ( Cambridge University Collection , Crown Copyright ) |
| 14 | When officers arrived at the High Row , a large group of anti-fascist campaigners had arrived and were chanting slogans at the BNP . |
| 15 | ‘ The Protons were basically a punk rock band , ’ Lenny explains , as the ‘ Weed luxuriate in the compact and bijou confines of the third support band 's dressing facilities at the London Astoria , ‘ and these two guys were doing a '60s R&B thing . |
| 16 | She has held visiting teaching appointments at several universities , served as a research associate for Early Christian art at the Institute of Fine Arts , and is assisting curators at the Pierpont Morgan Library in preparing an exhibition of Armenian manuscripts . |
| 17 | WITH determined expressions and boundless energy , British Gas Ballet Central gave a programme of great variation delighting audiences at the Minerva Studio Theatre this week . |
| 18 | Subscriptions to the Supporters affords a wide range of benefits including free admission to paying exhibitions at the Tate Gallery Liverpool and the Tate Gallery in London , invitations to exclusive private views , special Supporters events and visits to other galleries . |
| 19 | On Wednesday , when Ladbrokes ceased to call odds on Rovers lifting the long-awaited championship , he was pulling pints at the Blackie 's . |
| 20 | It had been intended to provide turning facilities at the Robin Hood , but no suitable place could be found . |
| 21 | Less popular ( 9% ) was an option to exchange existing loans at a discount of 30% for paper paying interest at the LIBOR interbank rate plus almost 1% . |
| 22 | The boys of Pensby High School will be going French at the Parkgate Hotel , Wirral , the South Wirral High School will be at the Cromwell Hotel , Bromborough , while pupils at St Ambrose Barlow School in Netherton will be working alongside staff at the Blundellsands Hotel in Crosby . |
| 23 | The boys of Pensby High School will be going French at the Parkgate Hotel , Wirral ; the South Wirral High School will be at the Cromwell Hotel , Bromborough ; while pupils at St Ambrose Barlow School in Netherton will be working alongside staff at the Blundellsands Hotel in Crosby . |
| 24 | They spent hours pulling the handles of the fruit machines and appeared unusually lucky in their winnings , which they immediately spent buying souvenirs at the PBX shop . |
| 25 | Jennings and Robson obtained teaching appointments at the LSE in the 1920s and were greatly influenced by Laski . |
| 26 | There were difficulties enforcing regulations at the Colombo slaughterhouse . |
| 27 | Following the Aug. 2 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait , Mubarak on Aug. 12 sent troops ( estimated by Le Monde of Dec. 2 at nearly 20,000 ) to Saudi Arabia , after playing a key role in persuading delegates at the Aug. 10 Arab League summit in Cairo to denounce Iraqi aggression against Kuwait and to call for its immediate withdrawal and the deployment of " Arab forces " to help Saudi Arabia [ see p. 37635 ] . |
| 28 | TOP jockeys Michael Roberts and Richard Quinn both received riding bans at the San Siro racecourse in Milan yesterday . |
| 29 | She was having tea at the Dorchester with him ; she had better go . |
| 30 | Filan , 22 , is having trials at The Dell as manager Ian Branfoot searches for someone to take over from Andrews — granted his request for a transfer this week . |