Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pron] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , walking behind her at a rather greater distance than might have been thought usual , came Linnet Gage in a dress that fell from her tiny waist as gracefully and naturally as a waterfall , each diaphanous tulle frill overlapping the other with perfect simplicity , her face as delicate and beautiful as rare porcelain , her blue eyes clouded by a dream of remote but tantalizing sweetness , which also touched the corners of her lips , raising them very slightly in a smile of which every man present must have wished to know the secret . |
| 2 | We were looking across it at a slice-shaped building , calcined with pollution . |
| 3 | She had her back to the entrance of the garden and was looking across it at a small orchard whose fruit never found its way to the rector 's table , always being pilfered by the small street arabs of the district . |
| 4 | In the morning he had woken with energy racing through him at a pace too uneven to harness . |
| 5 | If your grandmother 's not waiting for us at a hotel , then where — ? ’ |
| 6 | Mr Trelawney was waiting for us at an inn , near the sea . |
| 7 | ‘ Those altar candles we pay so much for , we seem to be getting through them at a fair old rate . |
| 8 | Technology is speeding processes all the time : clients of Thomas Cook Travel in the US can get direct information about flights and make bookings without going through a travel consultant or speaking to anyone at an airline . |
| 9 | Oh , sure , about as safe as a shield of plastic wrap would make her feel if a bear were charging towards her at a full gallop . |
| 10 | ‘ Coming at you at a hundred miles an hour , all the way from the beautiful UK , 4AD recording artistes , LUSH ! ’ |
| 11 | I understand that the social services want to help people , but sometimes one can help people a bit more by nipping problems in the bud and dealing with them at an earlier stage . |
| 12 | Traditionally the Bank of England supported the discount houses , and thus indirectly the banking sector as a whole , by lending to them at a rate of its own choosing , known since 1971 as minimum lending rate . |
| 13 | I was talking to her at a women 's group meeting — we were playing records . |
| 14 | More seriously , his understated , meditative style is lost : the impression is that his timing is fine , the audience 's is all wrong : ‘ I was talking to someone at a party the other night … he happened to mention that he was reading Virginia Woolf 's letters . |
| 15 | Gooch watched Akram 's bowling as closely as a surgeon at the operating table , the ball flashing across him at an acute angle against the backdrop of a dramatic dark-blue sky . |