Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was spotted driving about London late at night on her own , having apparently slipped out without her detective . |
| 2 | When it comes to that though there will be people from other green parties who who 'll be looking for accommodation so at the last minute we can |
| 3 | In Figure 2.15A we can imagine a segment of the Earth 's surface ( ABE ) which has split into two , the two halves ( ABC and ADE ) remaining in contact only at point A. Point A is the pole of rotation about which movement occurs , and the separation of originally adjacent points on each segment occurs along small circles about this point . |
| 4 | He did come close to going on pension once at the age of 75 he sent off a perfunctory letter asking for retirement . |
| 5 | Speaking in London recently at the invitation of War on Want , Maria was herself imprisoned by Pinochet 's regime for holding pro-democracy views . |
| 6 | Speaking in Perth yesterday at a press briefing on possible future strategies for the arable sector following the new set- aside regulations , a chemical manufacturer , Peter Botham of WBC Technology , gave warning that the increases which farmers have enjoyed in recent months in grain values were not without a cost . |
| 7 | Speaking in Aberdeen yesterday at the annual meeting of the Scottish Landowners ' Federation 's north-east region , the SLF convener , Disney Barlow , said his organisation was getting phone calls every day from people worried about re-letting land . |
| 8 | But just as the microprocessor and open software standards are gnawing away at the foundations of the mainframe market , so massively parallel machines are beginning to chip away at the monolithic vector machines — once the parallel software catches up with the hardware . |
| 9 | Mr Krenz speaking to workers yesterday at the Bergmann-Borsig machine factory outside East Berlin — a hotbed of critical opposition and the birthplace of East Germany 's first independent trade union — reiterated that he was prepared to have his position as party leader voted on by a new central committee . |
| 10 | At the time of her appointment , Elizabeth acknowledged that she was coming to Lothian also at a time of great change with developments in the areas of delegated budgets for schools , curriculum guidelines for five to 14 year olds , nursery education and special education . |
| 11 | There are , of course , differences in temperament and speed of learning between infants even at this early stage , as well as differences in reaction to stimuli and in state of alertness — but any mother will acknowledge the change observable in behaviour patterns of her child during its first week of life . |
| 12 | Nests on cliffs and rocky ground near sea , wintering at sea mainly at the edge of the pack ice . |
| 13 | Margaret Hamlet 's daughter , Carina , has endured 10 years of painful operations with a cheerful smile and is preparing for surgery again at a pioneering orthopaedic hospital , near the Clwyd/Shropshire border . |
| 14 | Only last week one of the ‘ free ’ newspapers which regularly infested his hallway had reported a spate of knife attacks by gangs who ‘ worked ’ the lines , preying on travellers late at night and early in the morning , robbing them of their valuables and occasionally , to relieve the monotony , stabbing them to death . |