Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [v-ing] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parents of one family were n't taken in for questioning at all that day , but Mrs W was . |
| 2 | Eating sand rice and stone peas , drinking small quantities of an unknown sticky orange substance , stopping off for re-fuelling at most airports in the world , taking crazed detours to Nowhereland through Afghanistan , Pakistan , India , Iran , Saudi Arabia , what seemed like Iceland and what definitely was Cuba , herded off the plane every few hours to sit in concrete bunkers while men with machine guns handed out the sticky orange , with the true feeling gnawing into your dead-from-the-nerves-down brain that you would n't make Bangkok until the New Year , if at all . |
| 3 | A bachelor with a sister as housekeeper , he had found retirement unstimulating , and had been pleased to come back to teaching at any price , any place . |
| 4 | This can be borne out by looking at many of the resources available — often well-produced , informative and written from a sympathetic point of view but lacking depth . |
| 5 | ‘ Broadhurst 's Wager is the correct way round of looking at these things , an apt reversal of the sophistries of that anorexic apostate , scribbling on his Post-it notelets . |