Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm really excited about seeing them live at Wembley . ’ |
| 2 | Waist exercise 1 : keep your legs apart and raise both arms above your head , keeping them bent at 90° . |
| 3 | An electric blanket is also useful for keeping you warm at night |
| 4 | An electric blanket is also useful for keeping you warm at night , but remember that for reasons of safety nearly all electric blankets ( with the exception of some modern overblankets ) need to be switched off before you go to bed . |
| 5 | The BP flotation in 1987 coincided with a stock market collapse , so that when the shares started trading they stood at 88p — well below the partly paid offer price of 120p — and investors stood to lose heavily . |
| 6 | Aisha 's insistent words in the grain store , as she shook her gold earrings and the bangles on her wrist , urging me to stay at home , but I could only gaze at her shoes and marvel at how exactly they matched her handbag . |
| 7 | Walker and McKinnon also deny stealing the car that night and Walker denies driving it recklessly and causing it to brake at speed . |
| 8 | We take them out at about six months to get them used to travelling on buses and trains , as well as teaching them to stop at kerbs , listening for traffic and avoiding any obstacles . |
| 9 | On 26 April 1991 the Bank of England , who have entered the action as interveners pursuant to my order made on the first day of the hearing last Tuesday , served on the defendants a notice pursuant to section 39(3) ( a ) of the Banking Act 1987 , requiring them to produce at Threadneedle Street at noon on 9 May 1991 a number of specified documents ( comprising all or some of the documents covered by the injunction ) and stated to concern or relate to the accounts or related business of seven of the plaintiffs including A , on the ground that they were reasonably required by the Bank of England for the performance of its functions under the Act . |
| 10 | Instead of buying them aftershave at Christmas , their eyes lit up at enormous , giftwrapped , tubs of Swarfega . |
| 11 | And if Angel did not want to become a priest , what was the use of sending him to study at Cambridge ? |
| 12 | The Sun itself is destructive , heating the rocks by day so they expand , abandoning them to cool at night . |
| 13 | It gave her a rush of reeling noble , which on balance hurt less than letting her dismay at Xanthe 's poise work its sharp point into her . |
| 14 | ‘ When I think , ’ he said happily , ‘ that I , Pumblechook , was able to help in my small way , by taking you to play at Miss — ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The Sunderland lads have the consolation of knowing they played at Wembley . |
| 16 | This decision , to cease teacher training at the Polytechnic while allowing it to continue at West Glamorgan seems to have been based on political rather than educational considerations . |
| 17 | The infant retrieves , or witnesses the retrieval of an object from behind A ( say ) three times , after which he watches as the experimenter moves it to place B. On seeing it vanish at B he will go straight back to A. Although the back-to-A error is more likely to be made the longer the delay between hiding at B and allowing search , this is not a memory problem in any simple sense because the infant will return to A even if the object remains visible at B. We find a particularly clear demonstration of this kind of ‘ perseveration ’ in an experiment by Paul Harris in which there were two transparent , lockable boxes as the A and the B location . |
| 18 | At first I thought he was using it to wave at people , but then he bundled it up and threw it at a police car . |
| 19 | There were more than a few ‘ One Sergeant Wilko ’ and similar chants during the evening , perhaps making up for the heat-of-the-moment bollocking he got at Anfield for taking off a very industrious Rod Wallace . |
| 20 | There was a ‘ For Sale ’ sign outside , and at the time I was beginning to contemplate leaving Baldersdale — half of me wanted a more suitable place and the other half was telling me to stop at Low Birk Hatt . |
| 21 | If the players would perform to their potential there would be more positive aspects to concentrate on , so here 's hoping they do at Battyburn on Saturday . |