Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With ‘ Laura Ashley ’ shops opening at about the rate of ten a year and Peter Revers ' avowed aim to have one in every state , the new factory was crucial . |
| 2 | Amidst worrying indicators that the US recovery may have stalled again — there was a disconcerting fall in capital goods orders in the first quarter , IBM Corp shares are on the slide again , and they were trading at around the $47 mark yesterday ; the 52-week low was $46.375 on January 21 , the lowest since 1975 . |
| 3 | All gifts should be sent to the bride 's home or the address she is living at before the wedding . |
| 4 | After a one-minute search , he noticed the National Geographic magazine which he had been looking at with the teacher earlier in the day . |
| 5 | Miranda taller , with her bushy hair and colouring that the Italians whose paintings she 'd been looking at in the Louvre rendered by priming the canvas with a copper-based green paint , creating a complexion that draws light in rather than gives it out ; Xanthe beside her with her candy radiance of pink and gold , and rounder too , more neatly assembled , wrist to hand , neck to shoulders , ankle to foot . |
| 6 | What have you been looking at in the maths . |
| 7 | Randy Hansen 's stage show is an extension of what Jimi Hendrix was doing at around the time of Woodstock and the Isle Of Wight festivals . |
| 8 | What we are staring at for the moment is a ‘ permanent ’ Conservative ascendancy , rooted in the Thatcher ‘ revolution ’ and the sea-change in the political culture that has been in progress throughout the eighties . |
| 9 | Having said that in the case of a of a a of a through movement , I accept that we are loading at at the traffic in at the A sixty one if you like and it 's coming out at the A sixty one north . |
| 10 | He seems to have gone missing at about the time your body was discovered . " |
| 11 | She began showing up at whatever hotel he was working at during the day , claiming to have been just passing . |