Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] [adv prt] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women may have problems keeping weight down at the time of the menopause and after , and men and businesswomen have their own difficulties if their work involves a good deal of sitting at a desk or car wheel , and giving or receiving hospitality lunches . |
| 2 | Well if I mind right , I think my mother used to speak about man , , that had this fish curing station over at the hens |
| 3 | Profits are made by lending money out at a higher rate of interest than that paid to depositors . |
| 4 | Fully flexible or ‘ soft ’ , it has excellent lifting power , taking air in at the leading edge to assume a wing section which is retained by multiple shroud lines . |
| 5 | Putting science next to godliness goes hand in hand with rolling back the Copernican revolution and putting Man back at the centre of the universe , a reactionary project that makes the New Right look like tinkerers . |
| 6 | To get her into a routine , I started leaving food out at the same time and place every day , always whistling the same tune , so that she would associate it with being fed . |
| 7 | What matters is the difference between the time taken by cumulative selection , and the time which the same computer , working flat out at the same rate , would take to reach the target phrase if it were forced to use the other procedure of single-step selection : about a million million million million million years . |