Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He continued to hunt and race till he was well over 83 , dying in 1826 at the age of 86 . |
| 2 | We 're meeting between 2–2.30 at the little chef on the intersection of A34 and Oxford Ring Road . |
| 3 | The shots of the older child are termed cutaways , and they serve the very useful purpose of bridging time-gaps and of hiding jumps in the action , for instance the jump between the mother looking in one direction at the end of one shot and looking in another at the beginning of the next . |
| 4 | No , he had never ‘ flouted ’ it ; on the contrary , he had repeatedly counselled meeting in forty-nines at the most . |
| 5 | That proposal would have more generally introduced the system of the wage-allowance scheme to the able-bodied , most famously ( or perhaps infamously ) associated with the decision taken by Berkshire 's justices meeting in 1795 at the Pelican Inn in the Berkshire village of Speenhamland . |
| 6 | According to those at the vigil , the police only checked on the hose twice before the massacre occurred at 4am . |
| 7 | " Very powerful bow , " Hasan muttered , pulling in vain at the shaft . |
| 8 | In 1892 he moved to London and graduated in mining in 1896 at the Royal School of Mines . |
| 9 | Traditionally , we have perceived leadership as belonging to those at the top of organisations and have described others within the organisation as followers , subordinates or the led . |
| 10 | there is a lot of , there are a lot of things that are pointing to this at the moment . |
| 11 | The jacket was very fitted and single-breasted , cutting in sharp at the waist — which made the trousers balloon right out . |
| 12 | A computer word holds a fixed number of bits , in a range from about 12 to 64 , and we number these bit positions consecutively , starting at zero at the right-hand or least-significant end . |
| 13 | Gall bladder volumes were calculated from the measured parameters with the software of the ultrasound unit , assuming that the shape of the gall bladder approximated a solid with elliptical sections , the excentricity depending on that at the level of the greatest transverse section . |
| 14 | Wilkinson said : ‘ Grimsby have been playing with five at the back and gave Ipswich a tough last match . |
| 15 | Maggie 's temper and training did n't seem to be helping at all at the moment . |
| 16 | Keith has to get up for school in the morning , but he 's not thinking about that at the minute . |
| 17 | Normally London left Stormont to get on with these policies , only intervening in 1969 at the time of the civil rights movement when there was a clear danger of a collapse of law and order due to disputes between Catholics and Protestants over local government , over the allocation of houses and of jobs and over the conduct of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and of the armed ‘ B ’ special reserves . |
| 18 | I mean were working with five at the minute , we 'll go to that place and double it up to say ten and by this time next , next year there 's not any reason why it should n't be more to sixteen |
| 19 | Okay just so I can assess whether I can give you reduced cost advice under the legal aid system , are you working at all at the moment ? |