Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1976 Dave was supposed to be caddying for Fernandez at the French Open , but Vicente had broken his finger , so he was without a bag — until Manuel Ballesteros asked him if he would like to carry for his brother Seve . |
| 2 | I 've tried they 've got no , they 're struggling for staff at the moment for external training and the they 've said that er |
| 3 | Booking for events at the Theatre Royal |
| 4 | When booking for events at the Theatre Royal please note the seating guides which appear next to each ticket price . |
| 5 | Gull-like in appearance , with gliding and soaring flight , they feed by settling on the water and bobbing for plankton at the surface . |
| 6 | Jack was a native of Crook in County Durham and played for the local amateur side as a junior before signing for Newcastle at the age of 17 . |
| 7 | Hunt became a national motor racing hero in 1976 when he lifted the world formula one championship driving for McLaren at the age of 28 . |
| 8 | There were also high drop-out rates from postgraduate study , with disillusioned academics applying for employment at the foreign hotels as waiters , porters and chambermaids . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's going to be a wonderful evening , ’ said Camille , ‘ with her drooling over the waiter , and me nearly dying of fright at the slightest sound , and you sitting there thinking . ’ |
| 10 | Although Liz 's body is disposing of alcohol at the rate of about one unit a hour , her last drink pushed her over the legal limit for driving of 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood . |
| 11 | Sister Catherine Dunne , a nun of the Sisters of Mercy Order , who was driving towards Armagh at the time , was also killed in the explosion and her passenger , a social worker , was seriously injured . |
| 12 | Work a few centimetres/inches on a fairly wide sample of stitches , ending with carriage at the right ready for the next row . |
| 13 | ‘ As soon as possible , ’ she sighed ecstatically , hardly able to breathe as she felt his strong hands slowly undoing the zip of her dress , shuddering with excitement at the touch of his fingers against her bare skin . |
| 14 | No , there was no hope of her husband exploding with rage at the thought of leaving her and swearing that he would find a way to remain . |
| 15 | He had a lump in his throat and he felt his skin prickling with shame at the thought of his friends and his friends ' mums going in to Pricewell 's and seeing Anna unloading ketchup bottles with ‘ Can I help you ? ’ pinned on her overall . |
| 16 | Vaguely disappointed , the detective sat by the steamed-up window , attracting the occasional glance from the groups of sullen men at the Formica tables , his nose prickling with pleasure at the smell of frying bacon . |
| 17 | Time and again we stopped , hearts beating , the hair on our necks prickling with fear at the eerie , creaking sounds which seemed to match our every move . |
| 18 | Just as Bulletin 74 was being published , a Forestry Commission booklet Air Pollution and Forests stated ‘ there is no sign of the type of damage seen in West Germany , occurring in Britain at the moment ’ . |
| 19 | In a television interview given after appearing in Adelaide at the annual meeting of his parent company , News Corporation , he confessed to having ‘ considerable sympathy ’ for the way Bob was handling the economy . |
| 20 | They were appearing in pantomime at the Bristol Hippodrome at the time . |
| 21 | What is happening in India at the moment is something we were not expecting . |
| 22 | ‘ Bruno against Lennox means something in London but it means nothing in America and I just ca n't see it happening until October at the earliest . |
| 23 | He had been appearing on television at the time . |
| 24 | You do n't go round knocking on doors at the estate agent . |
| 25 | When Mr Steen rang on Friday afternoon to say he was n't certain whether or not he was returning to London at the weekend , she had checked the petrol in the car in case he might want it . |
| 26 | Returning to Moscow at the age of 52 , for the first time since he left to live in London 26 years ago , Ashkenazy said : ‘ In my modest way , I thought I could endorse what 's happening in my country . ’ |
| 27 | Did you say something about Mr Boulez perhaps returning to work at the opera ? |
| 28 | Returning to England at the Restoration , Shaw became one of Clarendon 's chief business advisers , and held such a multiplicity of posts that Sir William Coventry [ q.v. ] described him sarcastically as ‘ a miracle of a man ’ . |
| 29 | Either way , he will be returning to Westminster at the end of May , I am told . |
| 30 | On returning to Vienna at the end of September , Constanze immediately left for Baden , while Mozart put the finishing touches to The Magic Flute . |