Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] [noun] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some soldiers had said that when the war was over they did not want to take up Party work any longer : ‘ Many of them think that they have done enough through their service at the Front or also behind the front-lines , and point to those of similar age or younger who were not soldiers . ’ |
| 2 | As The Two Pheasants stood next door to his house , he was handy not only for his work at the church on the green , but also for his only pleasure . |
| 3 | The Prince of Wales will stand in for his grandmother at a church service and reception for the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association in London . |
| 4 | There was no dilly-dallying when you went to book in for your break at the bridewell . |
| 5 | Li Shai Tung looked down past his feet at the blue-white circle of Chung Kuo . |
| 6 | The various local and international fluctuations in market forces make it impossible to fix the price of oriental rugs in terms of cash amounts ; regardless of their accuracy at the time of writing , they would soon become out of date . |
| 7 | The investigators knew that within an hour or so of their arrival at the accident site , but they had to work for another year and a half to find out why : |
| 8 | Until 30 July , Hervé Di Rosa , who shares Boisrond 's spontaneous populism , though in a more neo-surrealist vein and with more kitsch , is showing ten or so of his paintings at the Laage-Salomon , where they constitute a mini-retrospective of the years 1982–1992 . |
| 9 | It is not a difficult species to maintain : it should do well enough in your tapwater at a temperature of about 78–80°F . |
| 10 | Does this disposition discharge the debtor only from his liabilities at the time the will was made or also from interest accruing subsequently ? |
| 11 | The air waybill was designed as an acknowledgment of receipt of goods from the consignor , and as a notice of shipment to the carrier ( and especially to his agent at the destination ) , a notice which would also enable the identification of the consignee . |
| 12 | I think the problem was he could n't get close enough to his father at an important time in his life ; he was frightened of the Colonel , and I do n't blame him . |
| 13 | Mr Tony Cove , Pilkington 's public relations manager , said : ‘ Fortunately we opened a new production line recently and the building industry is down on its orders at the moment , so we have been able to cope . ’ |
| 14 | He started shouting for help and about ten or fifteen minutes later , two chaps arrived and a couple of torches shone down on my father at the bottom . |
| 15 | Apart from which , she has enough on her plate at the moment . |
| 16 | As Fabia saw it then , if she did n't want her sister to heap coals of fire on her head when she got back — and Cara had more than enough on her plate at the moment — then she was going to have to be really pushy and go and ring Ven Gajdusek 's doorbell . |
| 17 | You 've got the landlords who are the en the enemies , you , you 've got rich peasants who are broadly gon na be opposed to you and , and will only come in on your side at the very latest stage when they 've realized that and then you 've got the middle peasants who are wavering in the middle but will probably support you mu certainly much more easily . |
| 18 | ‘ She was one of our clients , ’ Luke cut in swiftly , and turned immediately to Heather , but not before Merrill had seen the shutter which had slammed down over his face at the mention of Elise . |
| 19 | Renata Adler sat down at her typewriter at the New York Times and scolded Nicholson for a ‘ dreadfully written script ’ . |
| 20 | While , of course , it is necessary to become sensitive to the needs of others , even if this means taking on a little of their pain at the time , it is not good to allow this negativity to linger ( remember my experience with Charlotte ? — Chapter 3 ) . |
| 21 | The request that I should receive a consignment of most , if not all , of the issues was obviously impossible to meet ; and although I should much like to have had the ‘ run ’ of Eliot 's bookcase for an afternoon , I felt I could not seek permission , so soon after my arrival at the school , to go to London for that purpose , so I told Eliot that half a dozen well-spaced numbers would suffice for me . |
| 22 | He looks them over with his head at an angle and stuffs them in a drawer somewhere . |
| 23 | Thérèse knew that she had been sent away from her parents at the age of two months , to be fed by Rose , that she had lived with Rose for sixteen months . |
| 24 | One can find examples of paper that has become so brittle that pages break away from their binding at a touch , and if anyone tries to handle the pages pieces break off . |
| 25 | ‘ Today would have been sheep day in the old days , ’ the driver explained , as he hurried in to take over from his wife at the bar . |
| 26 | Mrs Hughes , who waited more than a century for some of the most exciting times of her life , passed away peacefully in her sleep at the St David 's Nursing Home , Redcar , Cleveland . |
| 27 | I got straight through to my brother at the number Ruth gave me , of the hospital in Carlisle . |
| 28 | A minute later he saw it flying past well over to his right at a height of about two hundred feet . |
| 29 | They say that ‘ nothing happens to the bad ‘ uns ’ , but it seemed unbelievable that misfortune should strike Arthur yet again directly after his triumphs at the Horse of The Year Show . |
| 30 | Under the proposals , they will be liable to tax on the value of the dividend plus a notional , non-payable tax credit of 20% which will be set off against their liability at the single flat rate of 35%. 28 Income which discretionary trustees use to meet trust management expenses will not be liable to tax at the single flat rate of 35% but at the lower rate of 20% ( if the income is dividends ) or at the basic rate of 25% ( if it is other income ) . |