Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen seemed unperturbed , and she felt stupid for allowing the scene at the airport to upset her so much . |
| 2 | The most recent feasibility study , completed in November 1988 , recommended building the dam at the eastern end of the Yangtze 's famous Three Gorges , one of the world 's scenic wonders . |
| 3 | This usually involves removing three or four screws and sliding or rotating the lip at the front of the cover away from the retaining slot under the case front . |
| 4 | The Sutherland and Ross-shire county boundary runs down the middle of the loch , touching the coast at the outlet of Kirkaig River , and Fionn collects in waters from hundreds of square miles , gathering them from as far away as Loch Borralan , at Atnacealgach , Urigill , Cama , the ‘ crooked loch ’ , and long , windswept Veyatie , below Cul Mor . |
| 5 | Mr Poole said there was evidence that some ambulance workers in the shires had been breaching the ban at the request of managers . |
| 6 | I do not like using the telephone at the best of times and was never very fond of small-talk , that tedious lubricant for rusty little minds . |
| 7 | And other players were using the model at the same time or earlier , some as a bass ( eg. Bob Bogle of The Ventures ) and some as a lead instrument , such as Hank Marvin , Jet 's old colleague in The Shadows . |
| 8 | Stealing from the camp one night with only his rifle and iron rations , wading the river at the border , finding a sympathetic ship 's captain to take him to Sweden , working there for a while and then making his way down through Poland and Germany and the rest of Europe , village by village , shtetl by shtetl , always moving west , America the ultimate goal , until he reached Cork . |
| 9 | She had been enjoying the evening at the Ritzy club in Streatham , south-west London . |
| 10 | When , during the Children 's Address , a rhetorical question is asked as a step towards drawing the moral at the end , there is great danger of a mighty fall . |
| 11 | ‘ They 'd been raiding the school at the end of Dwyer Street . ’ |
| 12 | Without a word the Negro turned and Jess saw the padlock fastening the collar at the nape of his neck . |
| 13 | Cleveland County Council , which is sponsoring the course at the Clairville Road stadium , is also putting one on in the summer . |
| 14 | Friends were manning the telephone at the Manns ' home last night . |
| 15 | She tended to do it of late years by proxy , as it were : she was good — or had been before the advent of the Reverend Hereward Marr — at manning the tea-urn at the church social . |
| 16 | Analysts also worry that only 4,000 people were taken off the payroll in the quarter , bringing the total at the company down to 98,100 — they had been expecting that more would leave the company . |
| 17 | Although the position has been modified by statute , traditionally a joint liability can only be enforced by bringing the claim at the same time against all the vendors undertaking the liability . |
| 18 | Apply by completing the box at the bottom of the application form . |
| 19 | Apply by completing the box at the bottom of the application form . |
| 20 | After mastering the language at the École des Langues Orientales Vivantes , Paris , he went to Russia where , between 1898 and 1901 , he worked in Moscow , St Petersburg , Kiev , Odessa , and other centres , acquiring the detailed knowledge of the archaeology of the region on which his reputation was to be built . |
| 21 | Not seeing the significance at the time of the two articles , or of the prong ( pitchfork ) and shovel that followed them , the two boys finished their frugal breakfast and set out upon their chores . |
| 22 | in so doing , he is not denying the value at the root of the accusation — namely , that prejudice is wrong . |
| 23 | Another pair , Carol and Sarah Pope , will be representing the Society at the Royal Albert Hall in April . |
| 24 | The win provided a fitting send off to Salt Lake City , Utah , where they are representing the Republic at the World 's Standard Championships in the Mormon University . |
| 25 | Belcher si not a great beer-drinker either , but for Morse and Dexter there 's no better way of ending the day at the pub , one of their favourite haunts is the Kings Arms where you might even get Dexter to admit he might actually share one or two of his creation 's habits . |
| 26 | Opening the paperback at the title page , I glanced up and asked him should I sign it for someone . |
| 27 | Karen watched the steward opening the bottle at the sideboard . |
| 28 | SunSoft has been publicly quiet on Interactive Unix since acquiring the division at the new year despite the fact that its sales accounted for a significant portion of the record number of licenses it sold . |
| 29 | One problem with avalanche transceivers to date has been that their transmission range is only effective for other members of a group surveying the snow at the surface . |
| 30 | The squatters had made four bedrooms out of it , keeping the kitchen at the back , and a pretty basic bathroom tacked on to that , as communal areas . |