Example sentences of "[coord] a [noun sg] [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted someone to talk to , not just a squirrel or a dog snuffling at her feet . |
| 2 | If the wind blows hard or an insect travelling at speed flies into the web , the bundles of thread in the glue globules unwind so that the filament can extend its length up to four times and still does not break . |
| 3 | Before we went down to the kitchen Elinor patted all the Napoleana into place , violets and Redouté roses ; a picture of him riding his horse , Marengo , and that one of him feeling for his wallet ; matchstick models made by French prisoners of war and a tricolour flying at half-mast . |
| 4 | The note explains that the series resistance of the mosfet need not lead to inefficiency and a circuit performing at higher efficiency than the one using bipolars is feasible . |
| 5 | Hilaire Belloc would not I think have liked his eponymous monastery ; it is modern and spruce , with sacred literature in showcases and a monk sitting at a reception desk . |
| 6 | Darmid fell with his throat torn out and a grypesh worrying at it . |
| 7 | A whole family employed in the Midlands engineering industry have been living on supplementary benefit for two years : the grandparents in their mid-40s , two married sons with children and a teenager living at home . |
| 8 | Last Friday , a sheriff at Kilmarnock granted Cunninghame District Council an eviction notice on the nine men and a woman living at a house in Gladstone Road , Saltcoats , Ayrshire . |
| 9 | There 's a man and a woman sitting at a table by the window , and I watch them for a bit . |
| 10 | The head of Keats , for example , wildly festooned with metal locks which it had proved impossible to file smooth had flown very erratically indeed , killing only a fat money-lender and a camel standing at some distance from the field of action . |
| 11 | There was a longer gash on her right elbow and a bruise forming at the top of her arm . |