Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [v-ing] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For laughing and singing at a funeral her husband gave her a reproving tap , and she had to return to her home in the lake . |
| 2 | Eyewitnesses indicate that ‘ the couple spent three hours laughing and cuddling at a Melbourne nightclub . ’ |
| 3 | The pattern consisted of repetitive peristaltic contractions in the body of the oesophagus not related to swallowing and occurring at a rhythm of four to eight contractions per minute and lasting for periods of two to eight minutes . |
| 4 | If parents do not find time for such training they will spend more time scolding and correcting at a later stage . |
| 5 | Men were also in demand for fetching and carrying At a suitable moment after the meal a plate or basket was passed round each table and the guests put in their subscriptions . |
| 6 | But if the profit was earned by the exploitation of property assets as by letting property , lending money or dealing in commodities or securities by buying and reselling at a profit , the profit will have arisen in or derived from the place where the property was let , the money was lent or the contracts of purchase and sale were effected . |
| 7 | The difference is that the IXI map is interactive — the user can go to any part of the system by pointing and clicking at a required position on the map . |
| 8 | In a recent case , section 54(13) of the Metropolitan Police Act 1839 was used successfully against two men who were kissing and cuddling at a bus stop in Oxford Street at 1.55 a.m . |
| 9 | Occasionally too he saw crows flocking and feeding at a particular part of a sheep pasture — sometimes at a dead sheep but more often at the placenta left behind where a lamb had been born . |
| 10 | Thought to be a Risso 's dolphin , he would meet steamers with faithful regularity , joining and leaving at a particular spot , and then bow riding at speeds up to 15 knots and rubbing his body against the ship 's hull . |
| 11 | While the CNAA had been debating and arriving at a new policy statement , a considerable diversity of approaches had developed in the institutions . |
| 12 | Duties are changing and accumulating at a faster rate than they can be successfully discharged . |
| 13 | The two young McLaggans were taunting and prodding at a trio of hostages , Thomson the constable , Bisset the minister , and the old soldier Major Alexander McGlashan of Eastertyre ; they stood in a huddle with their eyes staring , while young McCulloch staggered up to them and shoved stalks of bracken into their hair . |
| 14 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |