Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [adv prt] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were brilliant sessions all the time , on buses and at airports — we used to do an awful lot of hanging around at airports and we used to end up having great crack , even doing session on airplanes . ’ |
| 2 | In a stinging attack , Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown mocked Mr Major 's habit of looking on at soccer and cricket matches — and said the Premier did the same when it came to the economy . |
| 3 | If it is crystal clear and I am convicted of being in my dotage or of going on at half-cock then I shall ask British Telecom to accept my apologies wince at the thought of my next bill , and keep my nose clean . |
| 4 | The attack left them with a fear of going out at night . |
| 5 | She caught her usual bus , but instead of getting off at Frankfurter Allee and catching the S-Bahn to Biesdorf , she stayed on it , all the way to Ostkreuz where , like Herr Nordern once before her , she made her way to Ostkreuz Police Station . |
| 6 | In fact the conductor actually makes matters worse by indulging in all sorts of slowing up at phrase ends , making the thing into rather an elephantine procession . |
| 7 | Contact with employers has enabled many young people to see the value of staying on at school to improve their qualifications . |
| 8 | One thousand and ninety five days of staring up at Pete 's mattress . |
| 9 | In the 1970s the word was excursion , even then hardly fashionable , conveying an image of day trips to Blackpool and kiss-me-quick hats , of FA Cup tie specials ( when football supporters swung rattles instead of knives ) , and of the classical BR Sunday Mystery Tour , when for ten and sixpence , you could be pretty certain of finishing up at Barry Island ( again ) . |
| 10 | Within two hours of arriving back at Buckingham Palace on Sunday morning , the King received MacDonald . |
| 11 | He had also taken to haunting the Holborn offices of The Little Magazine : for hours he sat crouched in the coffee bars and sandwich nooks opposite , with the unsettled intention of springing out at Sixsmith — if he ever say him , which he never did . |
| 12 | I am allowed a say on this question of standing up at football matches because I first planted my feet on the terraces at Barnsley when I was five and spent the next 15 years or more rooted to the spot . |
| 13 | The famous American film star , W C Fields , has been known to earn as much as £1,000 a day and yet he has said that his greatest thrill in life is the luxury of stretching out at night between freshly laundered sheets . |