Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun pl] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He addressed Zukov , touching the Master-at-Arms at the same moment . |
| 2 | Fondant icing , royal icing and marzipan can either be made using the recipes at the beginning of the book or purchased ready-made ( see page 118 for a useful list of stores and mail-order suppliers ) . |
| 3 | They 'll be encouraged to relax by using the facilities at the nearby Abbey International College in Malvern Wells and the Downs School in Colwall : |
| 4 | In recent years he had made a point of appeasing the fundamentalists at the same time as co-opting left-wing opposition . |
| 5 | She had been fastening the buttons at the shoulder of Thomas 's elephant-patterned pyjamas , but all sense of co-ordination suddenly seemed to vanish and her fingers fumbled in vain . |
| 6 | Tillett 's Tea Operatives had only been spurred into action by the activities of an outspoken gas stoker named Will Thorne who had succeeded in organizing the men at the great Beckton gasworks in East Ham into forming a Gas Workers ' Union in May 1889 . |
| 7 | I had not met him socially before , but we had once clashed in court when he was counsel representing the police at the Brabin Inquiry into the Timothy Evans case . |
| 8 | Judas of Galilee , usually credited with founding the Zealots at the dawn of the Christian era , is also a ‘ zealot for the law ’ — and is attended by a high priest called Zadok . |
| 9 | Opening the proceedings at the morning AGM for the Institution 's Governors the RNLI 's Chairman , Mr Michael Vernon , began by reminding the meeting that 1990 had been an eventful and difficult year in many parts of the world , with a sharp recession and uncomfortably high inflation affecting these islands . |
| 10 | They divined the contents of sealed envelopes by the simple expedient of opening the staples at the other end of the envelope . |
| 11 | After defeating the Dwarfs at the battle of Iron Gate the Waaagh moves into the Empire . |
| 12 | 4859 ) ; Bakal is another native name , attested in a late fourth-century decree of Ptolemy I from which we derive much of our knowledge about the early hellenistic city ( SEG ix.1 , line 81 ; M. Austin ( 1981 ) The Hellenistic World , no.264 for translation , but omitting the names at the end ) . |
| 13 | ‘ The creative use of leisure ’ sociologists called it and it worried them badly that fret-work and bird-watching might be all there was to fulfil people after pressing the buttons at the fully-automatic , atom-powered , closed-circuit-TV-monitored , computer-directed plant for a couple of four-hour shifts a week . |
| 14 | There I saw an unusual sight : the admiral in shirtsleeves and braces sitting astride a very low dressing-table stool and gazing keenly at his reflection in the mirror , the ADC on his knees behind him brushing the curls at the back of his head . |
| 15 | She was a very nice girl named Eugena , I think , and there were guards at the end of the hotel corridors , I remember giving them the slip and wandering around Khabarovsk on my own in a snowstorm , only to be told the next day that there was quite a bit of excitement in the city during the night because a Siberian tiger had come into the city and was wandering the streets at the same time I was ! |
| 16 | Start by inserting the blooms at the back then work your way along the sides and then finish at front |
| 17 | The dealers want the tax office to recognise an appraisal loss of the paintings instead of valuing the paintings at the price paid for them , just as , under Japanese law , losses in stocks and securities are recognised if there is a great difference between the acquisition price and the current price at the end of the fiscal year . |
| 18 | Police were today searching the woods at the village of Chipperfield , near Hemel Hempstead , Herts , where the attack took place . |
| 19 | You 've managed to dodge meeting the boys at the sharp end of this exercise for far too long . |
| 20 | ‘ Meeting the voices at the end of the phone for a good night out outside work really helps — as well as being very enjoyable ! ’ |
| 21 | There are plenty of glossy , expensive training packs going the rounds at the moment . |
| 22 | Experiments separating the cells at the two- and four-cell stages give cells with a complete animal vegetal axis and each , in isolation , develops normally . |
| 23 | It would be useless to start compiling the leaflets at the beginning of July , but that 's what often happens . |
| 24 | The muted notes which are found at the beginning of bar 7 should be produced by damping the strings at the seventh position ( approx ) and then picking them with a gentle up-stroke using your r/hand index finger . |
| 25 | It is important to remember to set the pattern height by marking the columns at the left and right of the sheet , one square above the last row of the actual pattern drawing . |
| 26 | ‘ Something to do with pointing the hands at the sun , ’ he guessed . |
| 27 | The building works continued in a way we might recognise today , and the architect , Mr. Fair , was given the following list of outstanding jobs to discuss with the builder — raising the chimney , painting the window of the ladies ' lavatories , completing the lockers , re-arranging the pipes at the back of the dining room door , fixing the fireplaces and completing the heating apparatus . |
| 28 | We are considering the options at the moment , and I have nothing to add to that . |
| 29 | Diana has always been in danger of getting the giggles at the least appropriate moment , and age has done very little to cure her . |
| 30 | Diana has always been in danger of getting the giggles at the least appropriate moment |