Example sentences of "at [noun] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Karelius coped by employing a technique he had first developed at university and perfected in the army : that of chewing and swallowing whilst managing to divorce his mind completely from the organs of taste . |
| 2 | A horse bred at Rise and trained on the track won the St Leger in 1779 . |
| 3 | One to look out for — Game Over is a new book by David Sheff , which is just published in the US by Random House at $25 and reviewed in the Wall Street Journal : it is subtitled How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry , Captured Your Dollars , and Enslaved Your Children . |
| 4 | Information on possible risk factors for leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma reported at interview and recorded in the obstetric notes are summarised in table VII . |
| 5 | Bile ( 0.5 ml ) was taken from the gall bladder at laparotomy and infused into the proximal ileum over a two minute period . |
| 6 | Three years ago , the Ward family were held at gunpoint and threatened by a gang of raiders at their home in Turweston . |
| 7 | Alec says that two years ago one of his closest colleagues was dragged from his home at gunpoint and threatened by the IRA . |
| 8 | About 1.45am a few other hostages and I were herded into a red van at gunpoint and driven to a private home in the wealthy neighbourhood where General Noriega lives . |
| 9 | A MAN was being quizzed by police yesterday after a schoolgirl was kidnapped at gunpoint and subjected to a terrifying three-hour sex ordeal . |
| 10 | After washing and filtration , the nuclei were stained in propidium iodide solution ( 50 µg/ml ) containing RNAase ( 1 mg/ml ) for 30 minutes at 4°C and analysed in an EPICS CS flowcytometer ( Coulter Corporation ) . |
| 11 | He says that there is not any coal in Ila , but to this day there are those who say that some coal was found at Daill and used by a blacksmith at Bridgend , although there is no evidence from where this was obtained . |
| 12 | He says that there is not any coal in Ila , but to this day there are those who say that some coal was found at Daill and used by a blacksmith at Bridgend , although there is no evidence from where this was obtained . |
| 13 | There is coal in Kintyre and large pieces are sometimes brought up by fishing boats working locally , so perhaps the old people who say that coal was mined at Daill and used by a local blacksmith in the First World War are correct , although no trace of workings has been found . |
| 14 | ( You will remember that our Agent valued the cottage , without alteration , at £20,000 if sold to the tenant , but at just £10,000 to a third party ) . |
| 15 | I pointed my piece at Johnny and squeezed on the trigger . |
| 16 | Stony Stratford men could have their lunch cooked at home and placed in a basket , labelled , and school children would then rush them to the top of the town and the tram would make an express run for one penny per lunch basket . |
| 17 | Johnny Kelly , an established player , ingeniously devised his own brand of detergent , which he mixed up in his bath at home and delivered in an old van with the registration number AGE 100 . |
| 18 | Typical was the hexagonal tile , painted by Picasso with a bull and inscribed to Cooper , estimated at $6–8,000 and sold to a phone bidder for $42,000 ( £23,300 ) , the lot of eight lithographed greeting cards by Braque , sold for $15,000 ( £8,300 ) ( est. $2,000–3,000 ) , a nine-item lot of small drawings and autographed and inscribed photographs by Picasso , Miró , Braque and Leger , sold for $8,000 ( £4,400 ) ( est. $500–700 ) and a lot of three delicate watercolours by Picasso 's mistress Dora Maar ( est. $600–800 ) bought by Paloma Picasso , the artist 's daughter by his subsequent mistress , Françoise Gilot , for $5,000 ( £2,800 ) . |
| 19 | Locke 's contemporaries marvelled at this human creation just as they marvelled at nature as seen through the microscope . |
| 20 | On the 8th June 1699 , the same day as the trial of John McVeir , they appeared before the Justice Depute at Inveraray and adhered to the confession made in Islay . |
| 21 | Until that history was published , in 1974 , nobody had publicly admitted that polonium was either produced at Windscale or used in the bomb . |
| 22 | From 1929 to 1939 Ramsey — trained as a classicist at Cambridge and fired with an enthusiasm for ancient Greece — had taught Greek and Latin in London . |
| 23 | Of course , the others laughed at him but he insisted and said that at about the same time I thought I 'd seen Sir Bartholomew , a stranger had arrived in the village late at night and stopped at the ale-house for food and drink . |
| 24 | The command structure , then , began at court and centred around the king . |
| 25 | Nets , 0.6–1.5 km ( 0.5–1 mile ) long and 7–10 metres ( 23–33 feet ) deep , are usually set at dusk and retrieved in the morning . |
| 26 | Then he was captured at Tobruk and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in Italy , which was guarded by Germans . |
| 27 | This suggestion , made recently by Tim Crow at the MRC 's Clinical Research Centre at Harrow and published in the Lancet ( vol I , p 1735 , is still highly speculative , but his report draws attention to the fact that the biological nature of this much feared illness could soon be understood . |
| 28 | Four to follow in this year 's World Series RICK REUSCHEL ( Giants ) Age : 40 Position : Starting pitcher ( right-handed ) At 240lb and proportioned like a darts player , ‘ Big Daddy ’ is proof that you do n't need to be a super-athlete to succeed . |
| 29 | As noted in Chapter 5 in the context of granite intrusions ( Section 5.5 ) , rocks formed at depth or located beneath a thick overburden are under considerable internal stress . |
| 30 | There are comparable signs too , cut into an offering table at Mallia and engraved on a bronze axe left as a votive offering in the sacred cave of Arkalochori . |