Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [num] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned round to sec if he was laughing at one of the postcards but he was laughing at her . |
| 2 | She knew that Sue worked as a nurse four nights a week , going on duty some time after the children had gone to bed in the evening , and returning at seven in the morning . |
| 3 | ‘ They'se stayin' at one of the tied cottages at Hillbrook Farm and they has to earn their keep . |
| 4 | Libby had been heaving and pushing at one of the logs , covered with rotten bark that peeled off , revealing orange insect eggs and small white channels like blood vessels covering the surface . |
| 5 | Next to him , his back to the gramophone , his friend Danny was looking at one of the Meccano magazines he had been given . |
| 6 | Tom O'Neill was in the outer office looking at one of the pictures that lines the walls — Rena , Hugo 's favourite house model , wearing a loose cut trench coat over a tailored shirt and doe-skin pants . |
| 7 | We begin by looking at one of the seminal theories of soccer spectator disorder , the Marxist approach of Ian Taylor . |
| 8 | We can consider these problems and get a sense of how online multimedia might work in practice by looking at one of the first projects to attempt to offer multimedia online database services . |
| 9 | The other one erm is within the university itself because we do have a support organisation here for teaching within the university , and it is possible for groups of teachers in any part of the university to ask for some help and support in looking at one of the courses they 're involved in teaching . |
| 10 | In an attempt to relieve your fears , I 'll be looking at three of the best known and anti-virus packages : |
| 11 | As I walked across the car park I looked back at the police station and almost expected to see the figure of Inspector Drew looming at one of the windows as in an early Orson Welles film . |
| 12 | Eating supper early , we were asleep by eight , before waking at five for the dawn . |
| 13 | ‘ There was a scholarship going at one of the drama schools , you see , and I entered it on impulse . |
| 14 | Marot was the day 's biggest winner , with her $25,000 prize plus $7,000 more in bonuses for leading at two of the three ‘ prime ’ positions in the second half of the race . |
| 15 | A larger number of bigger girls and women were in waiting at one of the locks , where the passengers are politely informed they may walk for a mile ; they had large pitchers and small jugs , and we are all favoured with pressing invitations to have ‘ sweet milk . ’ |
| 16 | Crosby 's Shirli-Ann Siddall , now based in Dorset , is up against seventh seed Jennifer Capriati in the first round and junior Lorna Woodroffe , languishing at 532 in the rankings , faces Switzerland 's 11th seed Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere . |
| 17 | All this happened in early spring — the third week in March , I think — and for several weeks of the previous summer Inez had been carrying on with a man staying at one of the St Ives hotels . |
| 18 | I remember a man with a family of several young children who worked at the plant saying at one of the first local public meetings I addressed that it would certainly change his mind about nuclear power if the link with leukaemia was substantiated . |
| 19 | As early as 1950 Norbert Weiner had predicted that automation would result , within twenty-five years , in a depression that would make that of the 1930s seem like a pleasant joke , and in 1965 an Oxford University professor was quoted as saying at one of the OECD conferences : |
| 20 | But on Adwick we have decided , and I 've told John or he 's been informed , that because we 've got a supervisor there I do n't want him starting at six in the morning . |
| 21 | A computer word holds a fixed number of bits , in a range from about 12 to 64 , and we number these bit positions consecutively , starting at zero at the right-hand or least-significant end . |
| 22 | Smoking in women was virtually unchanged , starting at eight of the 16 in hypertensives and seven of 16 in controls , and ending at six of 16 and seven of 16 respectively . |
| 23 | Among the moves being considered is a ‘ continental-style ’ day , starting at eight in the morning . |
| 24 | They they would think that a man er starting at eight in the morning will do as many and as quick for ten o'clock , as a man starting at night , or at six o'clock in the morning , or the afternoon shift . |
| 25 | hours he was working er from th starting at eight in the morning . |
| 26 | Stopping at one of the doors , he waited for her to catch up . |
| 27 | In a temperature of nearly ninety degrees , Lindsey was glad she had thought to bring a hat with her as they strolled along the palm-strewn promenade , stopping at one of the many bars to drink a refreshingly cold iced lemonade . |
| 28 | As he turned the corner away from the house and towards the train station , Endill was sure he saw the shape of his father standing at one of the upstairs windows , watching him go . |
| 29 | One day , a week before the move , while she was standing at one of the upstairs windows , Celia saw the rector pushing his bicycle up the drive . |
| 30 | There was a woman standing at one of the second-storey windows when Gentle reached the intersection , just gazing out at the street . |