Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Losberne , of course , was full of immediate plans to rush round London arresting all the gang and hanging them at once . |
| 2 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
| 3 | The main duty of the foresters of fee was of course the safe keeping of vert and venison : the Forest rolls show them searching for , arresting and attaching offenders , and indicting them at the Forest Eyre . |
| 4 | It must save you a lot of time being a spirit and seeing everything at once . |
| 5 | But I so need to be walking up the stairs and pushing open the studio door , and seeing him at his bench , looking over his shoulder at me , as if he 's not in the least interested to see who it is . |
| 6 | ‘ And seeing it at night … ’ |
| 7 | It 's great to see those guys out here , giving pleasure and enjoying themselves at the same time . |
| 8 | When she realizes that by controlling these cries , and producing them at will rather than automatically , she can influence the behaviour of her parents , she has progressed to the directive function . |
| 9 | PostScript sacrificed performance for flexibility and , as a result , is capable of taking the same original information and producing it at any output resolution ; 72 , 300 , 1270 or 2540dpi . |
| 10 | The boy rolled over and came on to one knee in a single lunge , and hurling himself at the man , caught him round the thighs with both arms , and swept him with him through the opening . |
| 11 | Reaching out for a vegetarian Scotch egg , and hurling it at his brother , Randy added casually , ‘ Will you have dinner with me tonight ? ’ |
| 12 | Second , the welfare state works as a kind of ‘ savings bank ’ , taking money at some points in each person 's life and returning it at another . |
| 13 | The Eskimos of Alaska were collecting amber and trading it at the late summer fair held at Kotzebue on the north-west coast down to recent times . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're sending it and keeping it at the same time ? ’ |
| 15 | Harvey was there in a red-coat uniform , smiling and doing his neat little dances and pretending to drop plates and saving them at the last minute , and the girls were saying ‘ Ooo ’ and slyly studying each other 's hairdos and shoes . |
| 16 | We are an organisation specialising in Stearmans and have wide experience of restoring and operating them at our Norfolk base . |
| 17 | All the other times were just a way of reminding myself of the realities and provoking you at the same time . |
| 18 | If I forgive you for being male and cruel and unreasonable , you must forgive me for being female and for carrying another man 's child and wanting you at the same time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Other examples in the Renaissance include the malcontent who haunts the very power structure which has alienated him , seeking reinscription within it but at the same time demystifying it , operating within and subverting it at the same time ; the revengers whose actions constitute an even more violent bid for reinscription within the very society which has alienated and dispossessed them ; the assertive women , the ‘ women on top ’ described by Natalie Zemon Davis who simultaneously appropriate , exploit , and undermine masculine discourse . |
| 21 | Before this age parents can be given ideas about encouraging children to go to the lavatory before going to bed , and waking them at the parents ' bedtime so providing another chance to empty their bladder . |
| 22 | In its case , however , the eye-spots are on the front wings and are exposed by suddenly spreading the folded wings and directing them at the attacker . |
| 23 | By the late 1960s , the new social patterns , technologies and musical styles had been substantially assimilated into a reorganized music-industrial system : a transnational oligopoly of vast entertainment corporations , supplied to some extent by ‘ independent ’ producers ; serviced by mass audience radio and TV channels ( with some ‘ minority ’ shows and channels ) , by a symbiotically pliant music press and by related leisure-products businesses ; and directing itself at a series of separate audiences whose distinctness is less subcultural than a creature of market researchers ' consumer profiles . |
| 24 | Woodway Park School , Coventry , is assembling kits for bio-reactors — special vessels in which bacteria can be put to work — and selling them at a profit to other schools across the country . |
| 25 | and selling them at seven . |
| 26 | The Capitulary of Thionville in 805 , for instance , forbids usury , the kind of usury which involved buying cheap corn in quantity and selling it at excessive profit in times of scarcity . |
| 27 | ‘ The Scots do n't look very … amusable , ’ drawled Georgie , picking a bit of 1,000-year-old stone off the wall behind him and aiming it at a tent-peg . |
| 28 | ‘ Whatever is it ? ’ shrieked the old lady , shaking her loose and holding her at arm 's length . |
| 29 | Sarah would not take a flying run , but with John and Nora running and holding her at each side , just catching the fringes of the grass , she had her stately share , too . |
| 30 | Registry staff must be able to process information without introducing delays , whether it is receiving data from a student and subsequently providing an updated record for that student or taking a request from a lecturer for a list and providing it at short notice or processing an offer made by an admissions tutor so that the candidate hears from PCAS as quickly as possible . |