Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 Jinny felt her breath stop as her eyes swivelled automatically to look at the Hare-woman .
2 I explained , however , that because her arousal had clearly remained at a high pitch during uninterrupted lovemaking , she had indeed experienced a multiple orgasm .
3 In 1972–3 three pilot projects covering Sunderland , Oldham and Rotherham had earlier looked at the issues concerned with a ‘ total approach ’ to urban management .
4 Picasso had never exhibited at the large Salons or taken part in any group manifestations , and after the Indépendants of 1909 , Braque joined him in this particular kind of artistic isolation .
5 The committee became so unnerved at the thought that the club premises might be under threat that when I said I knew how to deal with these bounders , but it could only be as chairman , they swallowed it hook , line and sinker .
6 After dinner , the Shah and Carter retired to a study to talk about the Middle east with King Hussein , whom Crown Prince Reza and Ardeshir Zahedi had just welcomed at the door .
7 It was happening in Liverpool , where giggly Karen had just started at the local secondary mod , and in London , where Dennis Parsons was fast learning that the prime number is number one , and where Liza was studying art at the Slade .
8 Following the demonstration that children could achieve various levels of skill in referential communication tasks , attention became increasingly directed at the reasons for the relatively limited success of preschool and early primary school children at these tasks .
9 There was one other issue which the CEGB tried hard to avoid at the Hinkley C Inquiry .
10 In a letter of 1955 Tolkien had rather laughed at the idea that Willow-man and the wights were agents of the Dark Lord : ‘ Can not people imagine things hostile to men and hobbits who prey on them without being in league with the Devil ! ’
11 Tom had also stopped at a Dutch trading post on an island to the north and purchased , in exchange for provisions in short supply , some twenty-five Africans .
12 Then more feet , the slam of a door , the surge of power as the Rover shot away to look at the next corner .
13 The Collector had independently arrived at the same conclusion by watching the slope above the melon beds where the number of spectators was beginning to increase rapidly .
14 Rachel froze on the bottom stair , heart stopping , and her head turned slowly to look at the pretty amah .
15 In his sermons the Chaplain of Cadets had only hinted at the existence of terrible ultimate anti-Gods which stalked the warp , seeking to spill through into the cosmos to corrupt precious reality — the antithesis of all that the Emperor stood for ; forces which Marines should pray that they never encountered .
16 If the goods had already perished at the time the contract was made , then section 6 is the appropriate section .
17 It was widely reported that the UK had unsuccessfully argued at the committee meeting for a total suspension of the ERM and also that requests had been made for Germany to reduce its interest rates .
18 The style was constantly attracting new figures and had influenced , directly or indirectly , almost every significant young painter in Europe ; even Matisse , whose art had always seemed at the opposite pole to Cubism , was introducing a hitherto unknown severity into his painting in preparation for Cubistic experiments in 1915 .
19 Well , for once a 25-year-old test with the fastest figures this magazine had ever produced at the time seems positively understated when you come face to face with the reality .
20 Now talking bout the Cosmo , I 'll come back to that again because there was a lad there and he was in the Independent Labour Party , and er his name was Eric and er this pamphlet will tell you said he answered more questions when he spoke , and at nineteen he was he spoke , he answered more questions than any other speaker had ever answered at the Cosmo you know he got a record for answering questions .
21 The Government had initially aimed at a 1 January 1948 vesting day for the new Central Authority and Area Boards to take over , though eventually a date three months later was agreed .
22 There were several reasons for this : the delicate state of recovery within the economy meant that it would be foolish to contemplate a significant defence burden falling on Japanese shoulders ; the question of Japan 's future foreign policy was extremely contentious within the country and there was vocal hostility to any suggestion of reviving an active or adventurous approach to foreign matters ; furthermore Yoshida had personally suffered at the hands of the military and had no wish to see the old guard of the Japanese armed forces making a come-back .
23 These included the return to Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah of the islands Abu Musa and the two Tunbs , occupied by Iran in 1971 ; a modification of the 1975 Algiers agreement which Iraq had unilaterally abrogated at the beginning of the war ; autonomy for the Arab , Kurdish and Baluchi minorities in Iran ; and the ‘ acceptance of certain conditions ’ ( no doubt concerning non-interference in Iraq 's domestic affairs ) for the improvement of relations between the two countries .
24 The governors had effectively decided at an emergency meeting on Tuesday night that Mr Birt should stay but question marks still hung over the future of Mr Hussey , especially as the BBC 's General Advisory Council recommended on Wednesday that he should go for effectively bringing the BBC into disrepute at a time when its charter was coming up for renegotiation .
25 Sharkey Morris and Soapy Symonds had both worked at the Galloway transport firm in Page Street for a number of years .
26 Anderjays Our Marcus won Best Exhibit at the 1988 Rottweiler Club at the Victoria Championship Show and went on to win runner-up in show at the 1988 Melbourne Royal Show .
27 ‘ My singing career sort of got off the ground through the show too because it was when a few of us from the show got together to sing at a benefit concert for a football club in Australia that I first publicly sang ‘ The Locomotion . ’
28 Filmer came alone to sit at an untenanted table , ordering eggs and coffee from Oliver without looking at him .
29 The catcalls from the crowd had now intensified at the executioners ' bungling of their job .
30 In the short time it had taken to procure the services of the constabulary , the situation had steadily worsened at the Harwell inn .
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