Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four groups of five nude mice were grafted with MKN45G xenograft tissue and treated with either PBS or histamine at a single concentration of 1 mgkg - 1 day - 1 , locally at the tumour site . |
| 2 | Lives have been ruined because people have read the wrong books or looked at the wrong pictures . |
| 3 | The Tornado would launch a Harm or Alarm at a safe distance . |
| 4 | Through this relationship , they can also be a record of the life force that exists at a certain site . |
| 5 | He let go the clutch , lifted the front wheel and drove at the far bank , sand-spit dead ahead . |
| 6 | I sat with my head between my legs and looked at the dirt-encrusted toenails of the silent Yugoslavian on my left until-'Jennings ' was called from the next room . |
| 7 | ‘ Just a case of first-night nerves , ’ I mutter , unlocking my legs and grasping at the steaming mug.Ruthie Henshall opens tonight in Crazy For You at the Prince Edward Theatre , London . |
| 8 | Even at four in the morning , if he woke during a rare , sleepless night , Dexter liked to brush back the curtains of his bedroom and marvel at the twinkling lights . |
| 9 | She went up to the bedroom and gazed at the old four-poster , hardly noticing the faded splendour of its blue and gold canopy as she scrutinised the decorated wooden frieze that ran along the top . |
| 10 | Frankie narrowed his eyes and squinted at the bloody object lying between her powerful front paws . |
| 11 | He narrowed his eyes and stared at the distant wall of the Tower . |
| 12 | Jaye Davidson wanders into the Ground Floor Bar in Notting Hill and sniffs at the saloon-in-space restyle job with a languid disdain that is only mildly theatrical . |
| 13 | Its many alterations and additions reflect in stone and brick , the looms and busts at the woollen industry . |
| 14 | She slammed back the driving seat and looked at the unfamiliar dashboard with all its foreign signals . |
| 15 | Most importantly , its key objective was to promote openness and trust at the top level , a refreshing contract to the dog-eat-dog approach being bred into far too many managers in this sado-masochistic age . |
| 16 | But she is excellent in the play-extracts , lending Amanda in Private Lives just the right touch of acid mockery and hinting at a whole world of repressed longing as the suburban wife in Still Life ( the embryonic version of Brief Encounter ) . |
| 17 | In a daze of fear and dread at the vast sky that hung above him Creggan looked around at the Cages . |
| 18 | ‘ When travelling in the country , you sense an enormous fear and anger at the present reforms ; in well-healed suburbs , there is approval of the reforms but still a great fear of the random violence they have released . ’ |
| 19 | Despite the lines of exhaustion bracketing his mouth and etched at the outer corners of his eyes , his gaze gleamed dangerously . |
| 20 | At the end of each row was the monitor who marked the attendance which , if regular , entitled you to a Prize at the end of the year , a book chosen from a list by the recipient and presented at the Annual Service on Low Sunday . |
| 21 | I lay there on the couch and shuddered at the very thought . |
| 22 | Journalists sought to divide universities into ‘ premier league ’ universities which would do research and teaching at a high level , and the others . |
| 23 | Zak raised his eyes vaguely in my direction but it would have been tactless to disrupt the thoughts behind them , so I pressed on forward , traversing the dayniter and the sleeping cars and arriving at the forward dome car . |
| 24 | One night , she got up and turned on the light and looked at the sweet , bland face of Jesus , the Light of the World , in the picture over the mantelpiece . |
| 25 | A much more unusual kind of tonal conflict is occasionally found where composers add one piece of music to another , as in the works of Charles Ives , where the strains of a military band or an organ may be added to the orchestra , in a different key and moving at a different tempo . |
| 26 | The Weasel stepped up to the horse and peered at the dishevelled figure . |
| 27 | All I can do is lie in bed , listening to the howling wind and staring at the grey northern sky . |
| 28 | In any case , most City people put politics to one side and looked at the nascent company as a simple business proposition . |
| 29 | ‘ She could write a little essay on any subject , exactly a slate long , beginning at the left-hand top of one side and ending at the right-hand bottom of the other , and the essay should be strictly according to rule . ’ |
| 30 | As the sea flooded around them , the boy grabbed an axe and hacked at the slithery tentacles . |