Example sentences of "[v-ing] [indef pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | can vouch for that cos she 's seeing everyone at |
| 2 | And Fleischmann received a fax from Harwell and learned that they were seeing nothing at all . |
| 3 | Similarly , we could postulate some alien being capable of seeing nothing at all in the range of wavelengths we call ‘ light ’ but able to see a whole range of colours in the ultraviolet or infrared . |
| 4 | She was , as well , a woman above reproach , avoiding involvement in all intrigues , keeping everyone at a distance and thus surrounded by universal esteem . |
| 5 | There were no words in the experience , but he became aware of the fact that he was keeping something at bay ; or another way of looking at it would be that he was wearing some rigid outer clothing , like corsets or a suit of armour . |
| 6 | Instead of upholding one at the expense of the other , Bachelard offers the possibility of a deconstructive history which would reinscribe that which had been excluded ; this could also enable a differential history of science and ideology , accounting for the perpetuation of ideology after the production of science . |
| 7 | You 're eliminating one at a time . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not thanking anyone at Murrayfield for accepting the itinerary ’ , Sole said . |
| 9 | Examples of underpresenting lots at Sotheby 's included lot 9 , ‘ Three figures at a table ’ by a follower of Caravaggio , which found its own price at £105,000 ( $168,000 , est. £20,000–30,000 ) ; lot 12 ‘ Christ in the house of Martha and Mary ’ by Vasari , ‘ the cheapest Vasari I 've ever seen ’ , was one comment , which made £9,000 ( $14,400 ) ; and lot 92 , ‘ The Annunciation ’ , a late work by Procaccini which made £92,000 ( $147,200 , est. £20,000–30,000 ) . |
| 10 | A brand-new Tavern , redolent of fresh mortar and size , and fronting nothing at all , had taken for its sign The Rail way Arms ; but that might be rash enterprise — and then it hoped to sell drink to the workmen . |
| 11 | Trippy was meeting somebody at a club down at Camden Lock but he could n't remember who or exactly where . |
| 12 | Number 60 's wife was shouting something at number 60 's children . |
| 13 | Ethical problems will surface , for no power-based organization likes to have its idiosyncrasies made public , and the anthropologist who is a member of the family and not merely a temporary visitor to the ‘ backyard ’ exotica can find that writing anything at all becomes crucially problematic . |
| 14 | The body came ashore into the grass with monstrous and majestic indifference , for the first time caring nothing at all what impression it made . |
| 15 | Now more people have a stake , with some owning far more than others and most owning none at all . |
| 16 | Having no really rich men , the community enjoyed a measure of equality , similar to Arden — the name of the forest in Warwickshire — where farms averaged just over 30 acres , with less than one in five exceeding 50 , and three-quarters of the land under grass ; farmers raised beef cattle for profit , and crops — rye , oats , barley and drage — for subsistence , some growing none at all . |
| 17 | They 're not paying anything at the moment on laybys . |
| 18 | It must save you a lot of time being a spirit and seeing everything at once . |
| 19 | It could be ‘ neo-Stalinism ’ ( refusing to say Russia was a capitalist country ) ; ‘ Pabloite revisionism ’ ( deciding to join the Labour Party secretly ) ; ‘ tailism ’ ( waiting for trade unions to organize strikes rather than getting on with it yourself ) ; ‘ liquidationism ’ ( dissolving the sect into a larger movement , hoping that its ideas will catch on ) ; ‘ parliamentary cretinism ’ ( advising people to vote Labour ) ; ‘ stageism ’ ( not demanding everything at once ) ; or even ‘ centreism ’ ( expressing a liking for Tony Benn ) . |
| 20 | She walked on and on , imagining herself utterly alone wearing nothing at all . |
| 21 | Though she was completely covered she might just as well have been wearing nothing at all . |
| 22 | ‘ Except for one other memorable occasion , of course — when you were wearing nothing at all . ’ |
| 23 | He had on the long white cloak which signified to the audience that he was wearing nothing at all . |
| 24 | A white dot is produced by printing nothing at all . |
| 25 | So what makes more sense — buying two at £15 each and losing one , or buying one at £30 and seeing it thrive ? |
| 26 | The police were expecting a peaceful demonstration , the demolition contractors were n't expecting one at all . |
| 27 | We have a backlog of sites awaiting shelters , but would give priority to providing one at this location if you consider that this would be helpful . |
| 28 | It 's in the process of providing one at Benson , and it only provided the Heyford site because it had done a deal with the City Council over land and that |
| 29 | I was half asleep when he showed us up to our rooms , Ward and I sharing one at the rear of the building , which , in place of beds , had a double-tier bunk in the corner . |
| 30 | Not having a copy of Class War : Britain 's Most Unruly Tabloid to hand , and doubtful of getting one at short notice , I ask if he has the telephone number . |