Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] them at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last , when he thought he could wait no longer , he glimpsed Benedicta slip silently up the nave to join the other two members of his congregation , kneeling between them at the entrance to the rood screen . |
| 2 | They hardly expected to see the BMW waiting for them at the dockside , but after they had parked the car and got the ticket , they began to look at their watches , and each other . |
| 3 | They found their parents waiting for them at the top of a wide terrace of marble steps , and the governor 's aide-de-camp conducted them to the reception through a series of lofty , marble-floored chambers forty feet high . |
| 4 | For an hour the guests sat patiently listening ; then everybody got up and , with the air of people who have been thinking of little else for some time , demolished the langoor ( free food ) which was waiting for them at the rear of the house . |
| 5 | Oliver and Tim were waiting for them at the gangway . |
| 6 | The emigrants ' discomfort was aggravated by tantalising radio reports of the steaming soup tureens , hot water and clean clothes waiting for them at the reception centre in Hof , West Germany . |
| 7 | Various local councillors and moral guardians were waiting for them at the venue , having read local press reports that the Fabs ' travelling show included a rather racy striptease revue . |
| 8 | To Sophie 's and Helen 's surprise , Ian Woodall , looking anxious and drawn , was waiting for them at the hospital . |
| 9 | Traditionally the Bank of England supported the discount houses , and thus indirectly the banking sector as a whole , by lending to them at a rate of its own choosing , known since 1971 as minimum lending rate . |
| 10 | Their points difference is vastly better than Rugby 's who are standing alongside them at the bottom and surely there was no way that a team as disadvantaged as Rugby could beat a team as talented as the Harlequins . |
| 11 | Human possums avoid conflict by agreeing with whichever side is talking to them at the time . |