Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adv prt] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I had left him for Bath , he had said , sadly , seeing me off at Salamanca station : ‘ I should have come with you when your father died . |
| 2 | Mind you , the accountant , C.J. Broderick , soon saw what was happening , but it took the best part of a year to re-arrange matters so that the newspaper could save money by hiring me back at $28 per week . |
| 3 | No he 's picking you up at night |
| 4 | ‘ I see he bred a good hater , ’ said Isambard , looking him over at leisure as he held him , and smiling at what he found . |
| 5 | But Chapman accepted that the short , stocky James was one of football 's great characters , an outstanding individualist who liked to do things his own way , like living it up at West End night clubs until the early hours . |
| 6 | Turn on the radio and on every station The Eagles are ‘ Living it up at de Hotel California ’ . |
| 7 | Emma is always asking when we will go back , and our only worry now is that in a few years she will probably be waking us up at dawn on icy mornings , saying : ‘ Shall we go down the black run first ? ’ |
| 8 | PC required for C Stapleton , funded by ODA — possibility of us buying it back at end of contract , allowing for depreciation . |
| 9 | ‘ That will take us four hours , getting us in at midnight . |
| 10 | I think that was quite interesting having it on at midnight exactly . |
| 11 | Compared with a survey carried out in 1985 , Inform found that many companies had switched their emphasis from cleaning up polluting waste to cutting it out at source . |
| 12 | When by Monday lunchtime there was still no word from him , however , she tried phoning him up at MacKay Contracting — only to be told that he was unavailable . |
| 13 | WILEY Arfur Daley reckons he 's found a new way to score against the police — by taking them on at soccer . |
| 14 | Oracle Corp says it is already working on VMS and OSF/1 ports of its relational database management system technology for DEC 's Alpha RISC and says it 'll be showing them off at DECWorld in Boston at the end of this month . |
| 15 | But they often make the mistake of putting them up at crusades when they are only likely to be preaching their simple message to the converted . |
| 16 | This permits you to design the copper track layout on paper at leisure , changing it around at will before finally committing it to etching . |
| 17 | He is currently slugging it out at Tarbes in the company of Stellenbosh back row player Dries Van Heerden . |
| 18 | Telling me off at work , I ai n't got a dozen yet . |
| 19 | Noel 's Garden Party will be packing them in at Haydock Park for two days over the August Bank Holiday . |
| 20 | He had never liked Queen Yolande with her haughty airs and fastidious manner , locking herself up at Kinghorn Manor and keeping away from the King . |
| 21 | People take malicious pleasure in cutting in on them and burning them off at traffic lights . |
| 22 | It was obviously a very clever song but it was n't until we were recording it and filming it down at Greenwich Studios , that we realised its potential because . |
| 23 | Linford Christie and Desert Orchid look set to be battling it out at Cheltenham in November . |