Example sentences of "and [noun] [v-ing] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arafat went on to urge the world to take action to halt " the massacre Israel is currently committing against the Palestinian people in Rafah " ( a town and camp lying at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip ) . |
| 2 | A point of typographical interest is that the printers of broadside notices and ballads continued to use the old ‘ black letter ’ or Gothic founts of type long after they had been discarded in favour of the Roman letter for printed books ; so that many of them can take us back in spirit and atmosphere to the Gutenberg Bible and Caxton working at the Sign of the Red Pale in Westminster . |
| 3 | But she and Jonathon should be back at school and Victoria starting at the village junior and mixed infants democratically this term . |
| 4 | K-Swiss continue the theme of protection , support and stability with its Grancourt Gstaad tennis shoe , again a shoe for both men and women which is constructed by combining sock lasting in the fore part and board lasting at the heel to support and stabilise the foot . |
| 5 | They have started a petition which has already gathered 450 signatures from residents of Ferryhill and drivers calling at the garage . |
| 6 | A journey to the heartland of today 's Ireland , Jiving at the Crossroads cuts to the core of the unresolved struggles that haunt the Irish psyche — between the past and the present , between the urban and the rural — creating a unique insight into the dilemmas faced by a whole generation born since de Valera 's vision of comely lads and lasses dancing at the crossroads . |
| 7 | In the kitchen she found Veronica cooking and Rodney sitting at the table writing a list . |
| 8 | At the corner of Bowyers Row they stood aside as a huge , wooden wagon rolled by , pulled by four horses , their manes hogged , eyes blinkered and nostrils flaring at the corrupting smell of death . |
| 9 | Whatever they may have told the pollsters , there must have been countless voters who , as they finally confronted their choice , saw in their mind 's eye the image of a beaming Neil and Glenys standing at the door of Number 10 , and thought , dammit — prompting them to switch back to that decent , straightforward , reliable Mr Major . |
| 10 | The same is true in the slow movement — listen to the meltingly beautiful oboe and string playing at the start . |
| 11 | We talked for a while , and then my parents , surprisingly tactfully , murmured things about shopping and left me and Anna sitting at the little round table , under the blue umbrella . |
| 12 | The temperatures in the holds of ships in the tropics can be very high and goods standing at the dockside in tropical ports may be subjected to very high temperatures . |
| 13 | Both driver and staff working at the operating centre need to be fully conversant with effective maintenance procedures . |
| 14 | There were large noses sticking into the lens , and people waving at the camera . |
| 15 | Myra Breckenridge , the sizzling exposure of sex in Hollywood by Gore Vidal had just made its appearance in London , along with Norman Mailer 's The Armies of the Night , about the invasion of the White House the previous October of pacifists and hippies protesting at the war . |
| 16 | During 1845 no less than £45 : 0s. : 0d. was spent on slating and floor flagging at the Forge Cottages , which suggests the ground floors might originally have been earth — common enough . |
| 17 | The families and friends waiting at the airport saw the plane break from a cloud at about 700 feet and make its final descent . |
| 18 | As a songwriter and musician himself , Terry Merrick is always prepared to act as more than just an engineer , where necessary putting his skill at playing and song arranging at the disposal of clients . |
| 19 | The seminar brought together thirty personnel from all over the country for discussions and presentations looking at the challenge the new millennium will bring . |
| 20 | On the other are ( mostly ) honest firms and markets groaning at the continuously mounting burden of regulation . |
| 21 | Long Buckby had 131 men and boys working at the shoemaking craft in 1841 and no females ; ten years later numbers had risen to 273 males and 50 women and girls . |
| 22 | Twenty years later the population had risen by 478 but the proportion of the workforce employed in footwear had grown more dramatically , so that not only were 301 men and boys working at the trade but also 123 women and 118 girls . |
| 23 | Probes for the body and others probing at the mind . |
| 24 | In the end , with Charlie Parker angels wailing on the stable roof , and Santa crooning at the manger , the piece collapsed into high camp . |
| 25 | This is an important area for wildfowl during the winter months , and if the tide is coming in it 's worth finding a comfy place to sit and watch the geese , ducks and waders feeding at the water 's edge , gradually being pushed closer by the tide . |
| 26 | The Department operates a Sports Bursary Scheme offering an educational programme , conditioning , medical and other support services and financial assistance to selected outstanding sportsman and women studying at the university . |
| 27 | In simple co-operative work , the Art Department can plan to examine particular patterns and structures at much the same time as the Science Department looks at crystals and lattices ; the Geography Department can look at climatology and weather charting at the same time as the Mathematics Department studies or revises graphs . |
| 28 | Anne felt her eyes fill with tears as she looked at Helen and Tony kneeling at the altar during their Nuptial Mass : Helen so tiny and ethereal and Tony proud and protective beside her , looking at each other with love . |
| 29 | Then some grass , and a dark green van , and doors opening at the back of it , and grey flat people moving in a white square . |
| 30 | The reason why people are willing to spend money and time looking at the geology of Lake Tocarno of course is that some of our ancestors are lying around in the rocks and people are therefore very keen on getting accurate dating of the fossils and one way of doing that is to get erm accurate datings of changes in other fossils that you can co-ordinate with them . |