Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [v-ing] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took her some time to get used to that but she got the knack of it in the end , and they spent hours together shooting at marks , or at rabbits on the Down or pigeons in the high trees at the forest edge . |
| 2 | The earlier 1pm start to Section 1 matches has virtually ruled out schoolboy cricketers , who are also denied Touche Ross Cup selection with ties now beginning at noon . |
| 3 | Place in gallery with no windows and visitors everywhere looking at pictures on walls and it is something else . |
| 4 | ‘ Why should they be , and the oaths fairly flying at Edinburgh ? |
| 5 | On the other hand , there were much more likely to be single children still living at home . |
| 6 | All around her were the smiling faces so lacking at Oreste 's birth , for Ellen and William could not match the pride of Ferdinando nor the ecstasy of Pen , and she felt loved and treasured not pitifully alone and bereft . |
| 7 | Following closely on the radical reforms which Hoover workers at Cambuslang were pressed into accepting , the cheerless events now unfolding at Timex are unlikely to improve the reputation in Scotland of multinational employers . |