Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Against the advice given me at the Centre , quite deliberately I decided to have neither a counsellor nor a healer . |
| 32 | During my last visit to Bara in September 1992 Ian Jack , Manager at Lochboisdale and the Manager responsible for Castlebay , came across in this self-same partly-open-to-the elements ferry becoming totally saturated in the process and had to spend the morning drying himself at the Castlebay heater . |
| 33 | ‘ It will please the Colonel to see them at the breakfast-table in the morning , ’ I-said . |
| 34 | The Champ greets me at the door to his mother 's house in Louisville . |
| 35 | Her scheme envisaged a palatial brothel for women only — a sanctuary ‘ to which any lady of rank and fortune may subscribe , and to which she may repair incog ; the married to commit what the world calls adultery , and the single to commit what at the tabernacle is called fornication , or in a gentler phrase , to obey the dictates of all-powerful Nature , by offering up a cheerful sacrifice to the God Priapus , the most ancient of deities . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ I knew there would be trouble at that roundabout — the road approaches it at a very acute angle . |
| 37 | It 's the door facing you at the top of the stairs . |
| 38 | So tres modere is and as the explanation gives you at a very moderate speed . |
| 39 | Now she was waiting for the food to reach her at the rapidly expanding camp . |
| 40 | And for cooking the tastiest casseroles , there 's a special ‘ Slow-set ’ facility which lets you leave the food to cook itself at a very low temperature over a long period . |
| 41 | So we 'll just use the line feed one at a time . |
| 42 | ‘ I 'll never forget the reception the crowd gave us at the end . ’ |
| 43 | Each morning at seven the members of the Brotherhood presented themselves at the dock-gates , and Josh called out their numbers , allowing them in one at a time to report for work . |
| 44 | They looked intently at him , then at each other , then executed a smart about-face ; the scullion with the loaf threw it at the other , who caught it and started to hit the other minion over the head with it as they ran back into the mist the way they had come , their figures — one crouched almost double , one striking out with the loaf of bread — and their running footsteps quickly absorbed by the rolling mists . |