Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a pleasure to meet you at the Scottish Taxi Federation exhibition at Riccarton last week . |
| 2 | The second exception was established in Tuberville v. Stamp where it was held that liability extended to a fire originating in a field as much as to one beginning in a house , but if the defendant kindles it at a proper time and place and the violence of the wind carry it to his neighbour 's land , that is fit to be given in evidence . |
| 3 | Fear gripped her at the demoniacal glint in his dark eyes . |
| 4 | Jane met him at the front door . |
| 5 | Sheffield went ahead after 30 minutes when Gage knocked the ball past Allen as he burst into the goalmouth and , though Walker parried both his shot and Deane 's follow-up , Deane beat him at the third attempt . |
| 6 | ‘ You do n't see a carpenter saying he wo n't build a house because he does n't like what 's next door and he 's going to wait until there 's a house with 8.3 rooms and the sun has it at a certain angle and then he 'll pound his nails and he wants billing above the plumber . ’ |
| 7 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 8 | Hewett despatched Charlton around the outside of the inn to meet them at the outside door , while he and the landlord hurried through to the tap room . |
| 9 | A ragged laugh escaped him at the startled look in her eyes . |
| 10 | It needs a powerful machine to run it at a reasonable speed but even if you do n't have such a machine you need to know about it as a sign of things to come . |
| 11 | Much to my surprise , Karen greeted me at the front door with a glass of champagne in her hand and , still more unusual , a smile on her face . |
| 12 | It had been uppermost in her mind to ask about Marc , but her courage failed her at the last . |
| 13 | The fact that the Prime Minister of Great Britain had twice flown to Germany to intercede with him , and on the third occasion had hurried across Europe with the heads of the French and Italian Governments to meet him at the shortest possible notice , constituted a personal triumph for Hitler . |
| 14 | Where the SPRU team takes us at a brisk trot through the literature , Jan Zimmerman adopts more of a wild canter in her survey of the likely effects on women of a range of new technologies , in a piece that makes up in polemic what it lacks in argument . |
| 15 | Friday evening saw me at the National Gallery with her boyfriend and , quite literally , hundreds of other people , to the opening of the annual exhibition , sponsored this year by BP , of the Scottish Artists and Craftsmen . |
| 16 | He annoyed her in many ways — mostly by his incurable facetiousness , which went down very badly with her girl friends , and by his desire to undress her at every possible opportunity . |
| 17 | ‘ Is your sister expecting you at a specific time ? ’ asked Penry when they were on the way to Haverfordwest at last . |
| 18 | Nor was hegemony an inevitable or universal phenomenon , and conscious efforts to combat it at the ideological level were a necessary part of the socialist project . |
| 19 | The amount of a christian 's concern for these issues should not be based upon denominational preference or doctrinal bias , but upon a willingness to allow the compassion of loving God to affect us at the deepest level of our beings . |
| 20 | ALAN Healsey 's wife meets him at the back door of their home every night with a dressing gown . |
| 21 | If you have n't read it you will have ample chance to read it at a later date and if you have , you would know what I was going to say . |
| 22 | Rose saw him at the heavy red gate of the yard . |
| 23 | As Calum Davidson of Highlands & Islands Enterprise put it at a recent Open Forum conference , ‘ In the south of Scotland , in Silicon Glen , the Scottish workforce use their skills to produce IT equipment for their world . |
| 24 | Quickly loading the Very pistol with the red cartridge , Larsen aimed it at the open skylight and pulled the trigger . |
| 25 | Our competitors who use their better provision of education to beat us at the economic game — show us how a slender force of educated human resources , our current situation , is no basis for technical expertise in volume , for high intellect in commerce , for leadership quality in management , or for any other human component of economic success . |
| 26 | And besides , there were two things bothering him at the same time and he had assumed that the second problem nagging at him had been Cipolla . |
| 27 | ‘ He has no manners , eats like a peasant , talks like he needs salt on his marrow , and is as free with his smile as a tinker cheating you at a fair on a saint 's day . |
| 28 | Miller dropped him at the main administration then drove on to the vehicle pool and , he said , some food and shut-eye . |
| 29 | Takes a coupla minutes and the people getting it at the other end do n't notice anything wrong . |
| 30 | Robbie could scarcely believe this was the same man who was at such pains to keep her at a safe distance , until she reflected that in Fen 's eyes Miss Taylor would present no threat to his reserve . |