Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun] [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In about 1923 the eldest Marsh girl joined the chorus of one of the variety shows playing at the Palace Theatre and went on tour . |
| 2 | Now the job is done by vast machines , which , with their great bulk and ponderous gait , resemble elephants travelling in reverse , the chute for the reject stalks hanging at the back like a canvas trunk . |
| 3 | On our last night we dined on fresh local fish in the Club taverna sitting at a table close to the water 's edge . |
| 4 | Flashman is now the subject of a police enquiry as a result of a complaint by Sun photographer Paul Welford after a scuffle following the Football League hearing at a West End hotel on Monday . |
| 5 | In the kitchen — with the ( imaginary ) raven on the window sill tapping at the window outside . |
| 6 | Shown here is the Queen Mother looking at the display relating to Frank Griffiths , the sole survivor of a Halifax that was shot down on a supply mission , and who was successfully hidden by the local Resistance . |
| 7 | A useful starting point is the reference sections appearing at the end of each major entry in The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church already mentioned . |
| 8 | Additional airbrake should be available to make the glider stop floating at the right moment . |
| 9 | They 're wired up like a lighting circuit , with the circuit cable terminating at the last — to fixed appliances like cookers and immersion heaters — are also wired up as radial circuits . |
| 10 | Many students find it very helpful to sit in the phonetics laboratory looking at a computer display showing a picture of their pitch movements . |
| 11 | The diesel locomotives surviving at the closure are Ruston Hornsby 0-6-0 , WD Numbers 420 , 427 and 432 . |
| 12 | During titration with HCl/NaOH , however , the Ca 2 + activity fell with increasing pH in a biphasic manner , with the breaking point occurring at a significantly lower median pH in patients with gall stones than in patients without ( pH7.1 v 8.2 ; p<0.0001 ) . |
| 13 | Some writers on intonation claim that the intonation pattern starting at a fairly high pitch , with a gradual dropping down of pitch during the utterance , is the most basic , normal , ‘ unmarked ’ intonation pattern ; this movement is often called declination . |
| 14 | From what has been said above , it will be clear that the Oxford English Dictionary Department would not be what it is , if it were not for the Supplement project lying at the heart of its work . |
| 15 | So it would start the timing mechanism running at the moment it dropped it over the side . |
| 16 | And on the other side there is the backing trio straining at the leash to counter the drifting introspection with their light but impassioned playing . ’ |
| 17 | Maybe this picture of ‘ the river god laughing at the water tickling him ’ could be more spontaneous , but it 's very attractive . |
| 18 | Several of the care assistants working at the homes were angered because they claimed they were not told what was happening . |
| 19 | While Emma bathed Ruth , Rachaela sat on the chintz sofa looking at the Chinese statuettes and blue glass animals . |
| 20 | As she sat with a whisky and waited for Constance 's call , she listened to the autumn wind tugging at the corners of the austere house . |
| 21 | Five minutes spent at the Health Centre looking at the patient 's notes , and someone has removed my medical bag with all my portable diagnostic equipment inside it . |
| 22 | Ann became a Catholic as an adult and entered the book trade working at a Catholic bookshop in Exeter . |
| 23 | Spotting the publisher delegates blanching at the very idea , he added , reassuringly : ‘ In the US the publishers price to cope with the secondhand market , and with discounting too . |
| 24 | Driving through the market place I thought again that Darrowby on Christmas Day was like Dickens come to life ; the empty square with the snow thick on the cobbles and hanging from the eaves of the fretted lines of roofs ; the shops closed and the coloured lights of the Christmas trees winking at the windows of the clustering houses , warmly inviting against the cold white bulk of the fells behind . |
| 25 | That just depicts the same structure in terms of constituents and sub-constituents , so the whole thing is a sentence which in the bracketing notation just has the sentence with its bracket and the other bracket 's way down the other end , and this is mirrored by the label sentence occurring at the top of the tree , it means it covers everything below it roughly . |