Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun prp] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | ( 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 . ) |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They might indeed come to believe that they were not really living in Africa at all . |
| 6 | Erm were were your brothers and sisters all living in Llaneilian at that time ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Erbo Graf von Kageneck , the leading pilot of III/JG27. which was briefly operating over Malta at this time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Minsmere gives a chance of one of the most varied day 's birdwatching in Britain at any time of the year , with many exciting birds at very close range . |
| 12 | Until recently , it had been assumed that the greatest of the medieval pope — lawyers was a pupil of the renowned Master Huguccio of Pisa , teaching in Bologna at this time , whose Summa on the Decretum of Gratian was well-known and whose teaching , linking theology with canonistics , the science of the Church 's law , attracted students . |
| 13 | But why are you asking about Meryl at all ? |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't know what ? ’ she cried , angry with him for not sympathising with Steve at this awful time of his life . |
| 15 | The American ambassador sent his CIA station chief to ask Walters what he was really doing in Morocco at this of all time Walters insisted that his visit had nothing to do with the Shah . |
| 16 | Maybe I 'm a bit young to remember but I do n't recall those two playing for Leeds at any time ! |
| 17 | I felt she had n't been thinking about Charlie at all — except as an inspiration — but that , like me , she 'd been dwelling on what she might do in the world . |
| 18 | But we also , I think , all took the view , because that was what all the signs were showing at the time , that the crunch would come later than it did , and I think that was the perceived view of anybody working in Whitehall at that stage . |