Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even more significant , perhaps , was an intensification of the philosophy which promoted wealth generating activities at the expense of social programmes . |
| 2 | Why did n't we do the foul deed there , rather than risk facing a rugby team of accusing fingers at the inquest ? |
| 3 | When he returned to Danzig Greisser was treated as a conquering hero , and was greeted by cheering crowds at the railway station . |
| 4 | Possibly the first Inn was the Five Bells , which was probably the ale house mentioned in 1586 , when William Cokar of Halling was sent to gaol for keeping an ale house and allowing gambling i.e. maintaining play at the dice of his own authority as a result of which he was bound , over to the next Sessions . |
| 5 | It came to me as a gift , a little black-faced lamb sent to me by the Batesons who were farming Briscoe at the time . |
| 6 | Doctors ' desires to advance specialisms that they find intellectually exciting , university lecturers pursuing research at the expense of their teaching commitments , engineers wishing to develop technologically advanced products such as Concorde , are just a few examples of the kind of professional aspirations that lead to the misallocation of resources from the clients ' or taxpayers ' point of view . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For Ashcroft Noble had never forbidden his study to children , and Helen later recalled seeing Edward at the end of a visit still standing by a bookcase and reluctant to leave . |
| 9 | When his trial opened on May 26 he had been charged with complicity in genocide , and the presiding judge had only substituted the lesser charge of instigating murder at the moment of reaching a verdict . |
| 10 | Civil engineers were checking damage at the site yesterday . |
| 11 | The commander had reminded him only the day before of the need to use manpower more efficiently : the government was no longer inclined to keep tossing money at the police force without seeing results . |
| 12 | Cooling comforts at the Cambridge |
| 13 | Lorry wheels had dug furrows in it , uncovering rock at the bottom . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | But trail rides also mean facing long climbs , often dismounting and walking , aching limbs at the end of a long day , and in the case of Argyllshire sufficient jumping ability to take your horse over the occasional stone wall . |
| 16 | Exactly 3.7 nanoseconds after play commences , I 'm usually hurling abuse at the game , the C64 , my fellow ZZAP ! reviewers and anything that moves within a ten-yard radius . |
| 17 | ‘ If they ever have a cowards ’ trade union , I 'll be the man representing England at the World Congress . ’ |
| 18 | I did no work that I can remember — I know I was considered hopeless by my teachers and I was quite ready to believe I was hopeless — I can quite well remember keeping mice at the back of the classroom and I can remember the smell . |
| 19 | Miss Fran Bennett , the group 's director , said the report showed the ‘ scale of deprivation among claimants ’ and challenged the main political parties to put tackling poverty at the top of their agendas . |
| 20 | Compton has also concluded that decentralization has continued despite the energy crisis , the south is still gaining population at the expense of the north ; East Anglia , the South West and the East Midlands continue to be the fastest growing regions ; and that Wales is about to join them . |
| 21 | Welcomed by women of almost all ages as comfortable and a declaration of female sexuality , the short skirt suit with power dressing shoulder-padded jacket was simply the best for oozing confidence at the office . |
| 22 | Welcomed by women of almost all ages as comfortable and a declaration of female sexuality , the short skirt suit with power dressing shoulder-padded jacket was simply the best for oozing confidence at the office . |
| 23 | Every so often the sound of a dropped pencil or pen would break the solitude , but apart from that the only sound was that of the wind outside , whipping around the building , hurling rain at the windows so hard it sounded as if thousands of tiny pebbles were being bounced off the glass . |
| 24 | Just as the introduction of spinning and weaving machines at the time of the Industrial Revolution in Britain destroyed craft jobs and created fragmented tasks which were performed by unskilled workers , will the new technology also be used to de-skill work ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Trading profits at the hotels halved to £75m and at the restaurants profits fell 15 p.c. to £63m . |
| 27 | Well I told you that man was trimming trees at the bottom , the other day . |
| 28 | Make yer mind up time : Laughing Hyenas at the Marquee or Mark Eitzel at the bleedin' Knitting Factory again ? |
| 29 | Earlier this year the Mean Fiddler 's Vince Power and the Pendleton organisation failed to reach agreement on negotiating a new three-year contract and Paul McAvoy , booking manager at the Marquee , got the nod instead . |
| 30 | Three months before defeating Callaghan at the polls she announced publicly her intention of running a ‘ conviction Cabinet ’ . |