Example sentences of "[v-ing] [n mass] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JEALOUS Jerry Hall is quizzing staff at the chateau Mick Jagger bought for her — about claims he spent secret nights there with Carla Bruni . |
| 2 | Everett , who had been ordered to take a rest at 98 trips , was testing aircraft at the Group Maintenance Unit when he heard that there was a spare aircraft going a-begging at his old squadron . |
| 3 | Everyone presenting data at the conference was careful to point out that they were not saying that lead is safe , even at low levels , but the ‘ do n't knows ’ do not form a powerful lobby . |
| 4 | Bingo player Bob Gladstone is hoping to start his own business after scooping £3,279 at the game . |
| 5 | Inbound rate of descent is based on the assumption of reaching 0ft at the threshold . |
| 6 | Despite grossing $100m at the box office , the film , which cost $30m to make , has lost $10m . |
| 7 | The care which bereaved Minoans sometimes lavished on their dead suggests a belief in the AFTERLIFE , and the idea of an Elysium , a pleasant Heaven awaiting people at the end of their earthly lives , is thought to have been a Minoan creation . |
| 8 | Halliwell was cooking haddock at the time . |
| 9 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating staff at the university of Kent and the two commercial pharmaceutical companies with whom the university is combining in a venture called ’ Viridian ’ , which is a programme of environmental biotechnology based entirely on bacteria that are naturally available ? |
| 10 | He was pestering people at the bar , trying to butt into their conversations or sit down at their tables and behaving — as far as people who did not know he was ill were concerned — like an archetypal northern wally . |
| 11 | She lost her sight following smallpox at the age of eighteen months . |