Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the directors present were opposed to pressing for charters at that stage . |
| 2 | The department may be involved separately in approving particularly large schemes or where projects involve UDCs disposing of land at less than market values . |
| 3 | Nor was she amused by helicopters with flashing lights landing like fireflies at all hours , nor the deafening boom of all-night recording sessions . |
| 4 | The stop can not be moved nearer to the Pleasance junction without interfering with movement at that junction , nor can it be located on the Pleasance because of junctions , bends and the pedestrian crossing . |
| 5 | Then at last he said : ‘ Gentlemen — and ladies , pardon me — I have given much thought to these matters and I wish to say here in confidence to you , that while there remains between myself and many of those present differences of interpretation as to what is really occurring in Europe at this moment , despite this , as to the main points that have been raised in this house , I am convinced , gentlemen , convinced both of their justice and their practicality . ’ |
| 6 | ( There was in truth not much happening in Fontanellato at this time , and although we heard news of the partisans we never knew where they were . ) |
| 7 | And so if we look at what was happening to income at that time , we find that the disposable income , meaning the amount of money we have to spend on other things after we 've bought essentials , that figure rose by only one and a half percent throughout this period . |
| 8 | Returning to education at any time is not easy with small children , little money and few available childcare facilities , but it can be done . |
| 9 | ‘ What I should have done , ’ he said smoothly , as he pressed the glass into her hand , ‘ was tell you that you would not be returning to Milano at all . ’ |
| 10 | Few , indeed , seemed to be listening for sense at all . |
| 11 | " Have n't you a great cheek to go looking for bread-soda at this hour of the day ? |
| 12 | The group which needs donations also gives advice on looking after pets at all ages throughout their lives . |
| 13 | Not to do with looking after people at all . |
| 14 | For I was shrieking with laughter at some of the unintentional one-liners and an alien about as terrifying as E.T . |
| 15 | This might indeed have happened but for the good fortune of it being discovered by Frits and Maaike Luikens , a Dutch couple who were living in Alford at that time . |
| 16 | They might indeed come to believe that they were not really living in Africa at all . |
| 17 | Erm were were your brothers and sisters all living in Llaneilian at that time ? |
| 18 | Erm eventually er , one of my teachers in my school had migrated to this country and he was living in Southall at that time and he was working in a bakery . |
| 19 | Constance thought , looking in surprise at this woman who seemed so radiant with health . |
| 20 | The conflict was an ‘ absolutely senseless ’ one , according to Brezhnev at this time , and the USSR initially took a broadly neutral position , hoping to retain the alliance with Iraq but at the same time not to alienate the new and anti-Western Khomeini government in Iran . |
| 21 | Erbo Graf von Kageneck , the leading pilot of III/JG27. which was briefly operating over Malta at this time . |
| 22 | Uncle Philip stroked his moustache thoughtfully , not looking at Finn at all . |
| 23 | I can remember one I can remember one going up Lane at half past two in the morning . |
| 24 | The three boys set out , but they walked so slowly that Oliver thought they were not going to work at all . |
| 25 | I 've been going to bed at half past one and I was doing the T M A for two nights , then I 've been doing his V A T for two nights so I 've got to bed really really late and I just and , the thing is , the T M A were all on about my then I just start to relax I had to resort to herbal knockout drops . |
| 26 | Most men and women would be better off for not going to prison at all . |
| 27 | A king could forbid a bishop to attend a council called by his metropolitan , as happened when Sigibert III ( 632 — c. 656 ) prevented Desiderius of Cahors from going to Bourges at some date between 647 and 653 . |
| 28 | Mothers tend to be less indulgent and more demanding with daughters at this age than with sons , and fathers to be similarly favourably inclined towards their daughters . |
| 29 | She saw again John lighting the red candles on the Christmas tree , with wide-eyed two-year-old Jeremy gazing with wonder at each new flame . |
| 30 | The inner waiting-room recreated the central space of the baths of Caracalla with grand staircases on all four sides , rising through colonnades at each end under immense arches framed by Corinthian columns . |