Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I had left him for Bath , he had said , sadly , seeing me off at Salamanca station : ‘ I should have come with you when your father died . |
| 2 | She had a way of shaping them into round balls , raising her arms in a wide , swinging movement and hurling them straight at Elizabeth . |
| 3 | Mind you , the accountant , C.J. Broderick , soon saw what was happening , but it took the best part of a year to re-arrange matters so that the newspaper could save money by hiring me back at $28 per week . |
| 4 | No he 's picking you up at night |
| 5 | Everyone would know he 'd become Rosa 's suitor , now that he 'd been to the house and paid a call after meeting her secretly at night . |
| 6 | He remembered surprising her once at work . |
| 7 | ‘ I see he bred a good hater , ’ said Isambard , looking him over at leisure as he held him , and smiling at what he found . |
| 8 | But Chapman accepted that the short , stocky James was one of football 's great characters , an outstanding individualist who liked to do things his own way , like living it up at West End night clubs until the early hours . |
| 9 | Turn on the radio and on every station The Eagles are ‘ Living it up at de Hotel California ’ . |
| 10 | Emma is always asking when we will go back , and our only worry now is that in a few years she will probably be waking us up at dawn on icy mornings , saying : ‘ Shall we go down the black run first ? ’ |
| 11 | Treatment was aimed to reduce Maria 's dependence on the bottle by providing it only at bedtime and in the morning . |
| 12 | PC required for C Stapleton , funded by ODA — possibility of us buying it back at end of contract , allowing for depreciation . |
| 13 | ‘ That will take us four hours , getting us in at midnight . |
| 14 | Sarah spent weeks with him two years ago after he broke his arm in a polo accident , treating him daily at Highgrove , Balmoral and Baroness de Waldner 's home . |
| 15 | I think that was quite interesting having it on at midnight exactly . |
| 16 | Samsung is clearly looking to shift the 486SX box in numbers , pricing it aggressively at £729 . |
| 17 | Compared with a survey carried out in 1985 , Inform found that many companies had switched their emphasis from cleaning up polluting waste to cutting it out at source . |
| 18 | When by Monday lunchtime there was still no word from him , however , she tried phoning him up at MacKay Contracting — only to be told that he was unavailable . |
| 19 | WILEY Arfur Daley reckons he 's found a new way to score against the police — by taking them on at soccer . |
| 20 | Yeah Donna does , but nobody else does , so do n't go yelling it tomorrow at school , keep quiet |
| 21 | So while the champagne corks pop at tonights glittering premier at least some of the stars will be taking it easy at home — enjoying a nice fat fish instead . |
| 22 | Oracle Corp says it is already working on VMS and OSF/1 ports of its relational database management system technology for DEC 's Alpha RISC and says it 'll be showing them off at DECWorld in Boston at the end of this month . |
| 23 | He ingratiates himself to the hapless couple , putting them completely at ease . |
| 24 | But they often make the mistake of putting them up at crusades when they are only likely to be preaching their simple message to the converted . |
| 25 | This permits you to design the copper track layout on paper at leisure , changing it around at will before finally committing it to etching . |
| 26 | He is currently slugging it out at Tarbes in the company of Stellenbosh back row player Dries Van Heerden . |
| 27 | Telling me off at work , I ai n't got a dozen yet . |
| 28 | Noel 's Garden Party will be packing them in at Haydock Park for two days over the August Bank Holiday . |
| 29 | ‘ Why do you , a stranger , visiting me late at night , ask that question ? ’ |
| 30 | People take malicious pleasure in cutting in on them and burning them off at traffic lights . |