Example sentences of "at [art] [noun] [conj] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teachers are coming to look at the shelves and tying it up with what they do in class . |
| 2 | The old tips were formed by dumping material at the top and allowing it to fall into its natural angle of repose . |
| 3 | I set her the first day to clean the floors starting at the top and expecting her to reach the bottom at the end of the day or at least the last floor , but Ellen she had not managed more than two rooms in eight hours and those not well done . |
| 4 | I remember when we got out of playing the tiny places , and we were resident at The Marquee and packing it out . |
| 5 | Only a few go through the final humiliation of meeting the bailiff at the door and watching him change the locks . |
| 6 | As The Economist pointed out , ‘ only a few go through the final humiliation of meeting the bailiff at the door and watching him change the locks ’ . |
| 7 | This decision , to cease teacher training at the Polytechnic while allowing it to continue at West Glamorgan seems to have been based on political rather than educational considerations . |
| 8 | at the sea and missing it . |
| 9 | It was McGee who started the goal rush by winning the ball at the back and playing it forward to John Ashdjian who flicked-on to Mark Jules . |
| 10 | Jesus , he 's sucking in air at the back and wuffing it out at the front . |
| 11 | Whether he was still staring out of the window at the storm or watching them made no difference . |
| 12 | The mixture of cheap jokes and pretentious philosophising becomes increasingly hard to stomach , however , and there are far too many moments when it is not clear whether you are supposed to be laughing at the characters or taking them seriously . |
| 13 | Sipping at the wine and finding it quite pleasant , she asked quietly , ‘ How long have you known the colonel ? |
| 14 | He 'd stood up as he spoke , and came to loom disturbingly large over her before spinning one of the chairs at the table and straddling it , resting his forearms on the back and fixing her with an unfathomable gaze . |
| 15 | You remember the American astronauts , how they went to the moon and came back totally changed by looking at the earth and seeing it like just any old planet all small and a long way away ? |
| 16 | This is what happens with tax exempt sources and by looking at a TESSA and assuming you pay the maximum each year which are those figures and assuming that the interest rate stays at seven and a half percent , it wo n't but it 's seven and a half percent at the moment , then this is what happens , at the end of the first year you 've put in your three thousand your interest at seven and a half percent is two twenty five and you would otherwise pay tax at fifty six at twenty five percent or twenty or forty which would be those figures , but you do n't . |
| 17 | Suppose you are required to perform the simple task of placing each of a pile of twenty counters into a jam jar , picking up one counter at a time and dropping it into the jar . |
| 18 | Cold setting was carried out by selecting the characters one at a time and placing them in a compositor 's stick . |