Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv prt] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 2 | In The Desert Rats as the young English captain who put paid to that upstart Rommel by turning him back at a crucial moment in the whole North African Campaign ( set in Palm Springs ) , he was fine . |
| 3 | Making a stock of suitable pictures and then sending them in at a steady trickle to the news editor throughout the year gives your children 's work a good chance of being chosen . |
| 4 | The shares will have been borrowed and sold in the hope and expectation of buying them back at a lower price . |
| 5 | And and there 's always the chance of getting it back at a later stage er but the whole market will have moved up a level . |
| 6 | The bus letting me off at a convenient corner in the city , I walked to the Sheraton and from a telephone there spoke to Mrs Baudelaire . |
| 7 | ‘ I should be taking you on at a week 's notice . |