Example sentences of "[v-ing] [vb pp] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These oolites were probably deposited as part of the coastal sand-barrier complex as it prograded basinwards , before becoming stabilised at the edge of the platform . |
| 2 | Subsidence during this mature passive margin stage is driven by both thermal subsidence arising from the cooling of the margin as it moves away from the region of mantle upwelling located at the site of rifting , and by the isostatic loading caused by the growing wedge of sediment accumulating offshore . |
| 3 | Yeah you 're getting you 're you 're getting saturated at the moment you 've |
| 4 | For example , when we complained about our laundry not getting done at the hotel , and about our rooms not being done , it was Sun who went to the hotel and sorted things out . |
| 5 | Two hours later , the body has drifted far downstream , finally getting wedged at the top of the weir in Parson 's Pleasure — the place where the careless Howard Brown had earlier left his yellow programme — and his continental seven … |
| 6 | A recent photograph in an Armagh newspaper showed a cow that had died during calving dumped at the side of the road with its leg tied to a gatepost ( presumably to help pull it out of the trailer ) . |
| 7 | Posh Porky seemed to be torn between going along with her old man to the synagogue and staying put at the shop , where she 'd sit by the window and start scoffing cream buns the moment he was out of sight . |
| 8 | I mean Jason and Kylie getting married at the age of seventeen or something and then like two months later getting and one of them moving to Tasmania . |
| 9 | But we 've got no intentions of getting married at the moment . |
| 10 | Having registered at the reception desk they went to their room and found a notice which purported to exempt the hotel for liability for the loss or theft of property from the rooms . |
| 11 | Having looked at a number of hypothetical fossil records varying in degree of completeness , they state that ‘ Sometimes fossils can be used in phytogenetic reconstruction without reference to stratigraphy : sometimes they can be used in combination with stratigraphy : sometimes they can not be used at all ; and sometimes phylogeny is in principle not reconstructible . ’ |
| 12 | So having looked at the relationship between business and the voluntary sector today , let's take a brief look at the future . |
| 13 | Well I do n't think that one will fit in your bedroom in any case , having looked at the size of the wardrobes and the site of the gap that you 've got . |
| 14 | Having looked at the equipment and principles involved in setting up the tank , we now approach the art ( and science ) of aquarium decor . |
| 15 | Having looked at the evidence we concluded that wherever public power has been separated from private power , women have been excluded from it . |
| 16 | Having looked at the development and decline of settlements , let us now look at why the settlements are where they are and the patterns they make in the landscape . |
| 17 | Having looked at the studio from the outside he was prepared for squalor , but a basic orderliness surprised him . |
| 18 | Having looked at the draft Memorandum to the Presidency I can only say it seems to cover most of the key points . |
| 19 | If , having looked at the display , the performance of the system is not satisfactory , the display will suggest how it can be improved . |
| 20 | I am no longer the chairman of ICI , having retired at the beginning of April 1987 . |
| 21 | The van having arrived at the weighbridge , she got out , but was instructed to get back in as she was ‘ part of the load ’ . |
| 22 | He continued : ‘ Having arrived at the party we do n't want to be seen to be griping . |
| 23 | The other proviso of course , is our commitment to ninety , nineteen ninety four , and nineteen ninety five , not having arrived at the end of the financial year yet , we 're still in the position of having to forecast what those commitments will be . |
| 24 | That suggests they are staying with friends or acquaintances Svend has in the city , and that is the premise I 'm having investigated at the moment . ’ |
| 25 | Having worked at a bakery during his university vacations , Ditton had no difficulty in being taken on again . |
| 26 | As beautiful as Crotone 's Helen ! ’ the old men nodded in the summers , when his youngest sister would pass by the terrace of the circolo , the club , on her way to fetch something Nunzia was having cooked at the baker 's oven . |
| 27 | Reversing its gains of Thursday , the FT-SE slipped back 28.9 to 2697.5 as profit taking dominated at the end of the account . |
| 28 | Marie , still in her pyjamas , was sitting slumped at the table that took up most of the floor space : you had to squeeze round it to move about at all in the tiny kitchen , and Marie 's legs had permanent bruises from its sharp comers . |