Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An hour later I was fastening my safety-belt at LAX . |
| 2 | She then picks up a stone in her jaws and , vibrating her head at high speed , bangs down the soil . |
| 3 | ( She told a gathering of women in a Mayfair hairdressers that Andrew loved fooling around — with her feet — and insisted on painting her toenails at all times . |
| 4 | And she had to go out , but no Bernard now you forgot this bit here , she was , er house , the decorators were painting her house at three o'clock in the morning ! |
| 5 | They were painting her house at three o'clock in the morning right , and Margot |
| 6 | City were competing well in mid-field and keeping their opponents at full stretch , but after twenty four minutes , Shenley pulled level as Paul Armitage crossed into goalkeeper Steve Roberts , but he lost possession as he collided with Andy King and allowed Rob Blackmore to get a touch and send it over the line . |
| 7 | When the weather is very cold they can not fly at all , but can warm themselves by deflecting their wings at right angles to the Sun ( as do , for example , locusts ) . |
| 8 | It was hot and clammy , accentuated by the constant pain of keeping his body at critical pitch , ready for instant action . |
| 9 | Cumming had a fascination with most forms of transport , driving his Rolls at high speed around the streets of London . |
| 10 | I was just silently congratulating myself on tumbling her secret at last when I realized who the man in the photograph was . |
| 11 | She was out cruising for a bruising from morning till night , and when she was apprehended soliciting for trade up the high street and gated for the evening , she spent it flat up against the back room window , flashing her underparts at any passing Harry , Dick or certainly Tom , and making the most loud and ear-curdling noises by way of enticement . |
| 12 | Rose Williams , eating her dinner at some little distance from them , turned away pointedly , curling her lip . |
| 13 | they just accept us for what we are , they know that we 're not gon na upset their lifestyle , we 're not gon na start raiding their place at six in the morning . |
| 14 | By seeing their work at first hand , they 're hoping he 'll be convinced of the need for more officers . |
| 15 | He conducted detailed negotiations with a consortium of the four clearing banks and , enlisting my assistance at occasional meetings , contrived an arrangement with them that made the economics a possibility , while , I have to confess , retaining some attraction for the banks . |
| 16 | AI has written to President Ben Ali expressing its regret at this resumption of executions . |
| 17 | it will attempt to establish that there is one human history , with one truth and one intelligibility — not by considering the material content of this history , but by demonstrating that a practical multiplicity , whatever it may be , must unceasingly totalise itself through interiorizing its multiplicity at all levels . |
| 18 | This atomistic view of time was associated with a drastically contingent and acausal concept of the world , its existence at one instant not implying its existence at any subsequent instant . |
| 19 | Morse looked at his watch : just after half-past six — and Downes would be meeting his wife at seven o'clock . |
| 20 | Dada was overcome by natural embarrassment on meeting his daughter at that moment . |
| 21 | I join the hon. Gentleman in expressing our sorrow at that tragic loss . |
| 22 | Dogs Today will be there in force , and look forward to meeting our readers at this prestigious event , which promises to be a fascinating day out for all . |
| 23 | Things seemed to be going my way at last . |
| 24 | Stimulation involves feeding a signal into some part of a circuit and measuring its consequences at some other point . |
| 25 | If foreign bankers thought that the UK was not serious about balancing its books at some future time , they would be reluctant to lend their money at low interest . |
| 26 | You see in British Steel we we have seventy thousand deferred pensioners and er it is a group of people that I feel extremely sorry for , because er in nineteen eighty-six British Steel introduced into their pension scheme while it was still in the public sector , retirement at sixty where with a pension credit spaced on length of service , so if you had thirty-five years service in , you could retire at sixty as if you were sixty-five and there was nothing done at all for deferred pensioners and in certainly our submission to British Steel for seeking improvements , we we asked that they er they look at deferred pensioner with a view to paying their pensions at sixty , recognising that it was a very high-class plane that might have to be er achieved in stages . |
| 27 | But if they were always selling their stock at genuine bargain prices , they would never make any money . |
| 28 | Interest cover , for example , would not be so appropriate — the shareholder would be more interested in dividends and may need to look at alternative investment opportunities as well as the possibility of selling their shares at this stage given the results of Belper . |
| 29 | I 'm here to do a job of work and if dressing conservatively and ignoring his attempts at seductive banter are what it takes to remind him of the fact , so be it . ’ |
| 30 | Again , you should ignore the dog , changing shoes without looking at it , by turning your back at this stage . |