Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A goalkeeper does not ‘ perform ’ his function in its theatrical sense , only in the sociological usage of ‘ perform ’ which we shall be looking at further in the next chapter . |
| 2 | The battle of politics and ideas which focuses on the inner city represents a conflict between sets of interests and values which have a long history , dating at least from the 1830s and the New Poor Law of 1834 . |
| 3 | This gradual variation of the gradient is effected without disturbing the horizontality of the lift dock by providing at least at the upper part of the incline two or more sets of rails for each carriage supporting the dock , the said duplicate sets of rails being in different alignment and gradually assuming different levels , the wheels of each carriage being adapted to travel thereon so that on the diminished gradient the leading wheels will travel on rails at a different level from those on which the trailing wheels travel , the duplication of the rails and their difference of level being variously arranged according to circumstances . |
| 4 | Tobie , back in the villa and cascading with loud , screaming sneezes , had proposed marching at once to the dyeworks and shaking Bartolomeo Zorzi by the hand : le Grant dissuaded him . |
| 5 | THE first meeting of Focus , the new name for the re-formed Chester Lesbian , Gay and bisexual Group , takes place this evening , beginning at 7.30pm at the Quaker Meeting House , Frodsham Street , Chester . |
| 6 | And yet [ wa ma'a thaalik ] , it is impossible to draw a full picture of Arab political humour , reflecting the psychology of the Arab peoples , their way of thinking , and their politics without casting an overall glance on Arab history , beginning at least with the rise of Islam . |
| 7 | I concentrated on flying at just below the manoeuvring speed as the big rain drops cracked against the windscreen . |
| 8 | so we 've got long red faces in Gloucester … while in Oxford we 've got dark blue flags flying at half-mast from the boathouses … yes the unthinkable happened on saturday … |
| 9 | If that sounds too energetic there 's a 2km run starting at 10am on the same day . |
| 10 | In the other two scenes , what is involved is not much more than a relatively conventional dramatic mechanism : in the Sunday Morning scene ( Act Two , scene one ) the music in church provides a kind of running commentary to the developing quarrel between Ellen and Peter ( in the manner of countless 19th-century operas from Faust to Werther ) , while the barn dance of Act Three similarly updates an ironic tradition stretching at least from The Marriage of Figaro to Wozzeck . |
| 11 | ‘ We began filming at 7.00am at the Bryman Airways check in. was shouting directions and the cameraman and soundman were fretting over which positions were best — we drew quite a crowd . |