Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm There was a great deal of difficulty I think at the court , as well as the rather glamorous exterior . |
| 2 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 3 | The ox heart I bought at Corrigans weighed 2lbs 13oz and cost £2.42p . |
| 4 | When he suggested Peter , of course I jumped at the chance — Peter was winning absolutely everything . |
| 5 | In the same afternoon I teach at Hurtwood , School , Peaslake . |
| 6 | This is not to say that I will desert the club I love at the first opportunity . |
| 7 | Outside in the cobbled farmyard I glanced at the side of the barn . |
| 8 | In the lavatory I stared at the mirror . |
| 9 | So in this chapter I look at what is meant by power and how some individuals and groups exercise social power . |
| 10 | I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered . |
| 11 | As we got into the car I looked at Eva and she smiled at me . |
| 12 | Looking back at him , she said , ‘ The only ambition I have at the moment is to survive my eighteen months with G.W. Fashions . |
| 13 | The only light I use at night is a small torch which I can grip in my mouth while using both hands to bait up , sharpen or change hooks , or make any other adjustments to my tackle . |
| 14 | All the painting and drawing I did at Tintagel Primary culminated in my ‘ masterpiece ’ , of which I was quite proud . |
| 15 | He had earlier fought with the naval armoured car brigade which landed at Walfish ( now Walvis ) Bay in South-West Africa and helped Gen Botha to take the German colony . |
| 16 | In 1885 a landing party from the ship 's crew of 113 formed part of a naval brigade which landed at Suakin ( a small port in the Red Sea near Port Sudan ) . |
| 17 | There was strong interest too in some jewellery items especially an 18-carat cluster ring which sold at £330 . |
| 18 | First , as will be demonstrated below , he tends to underplay the severity of the violence which occurred at places like Grunwick and Hadfields during a period supposedly devoid of such conflict . |
| 19 | At an informal meeting of the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group , China also approved a 15-year extension to a licence for local utility Hongkong Electric which expires at the end of 1993 , and gave the go-ahead for a landfill project . |
| 20 | The more Creggan himself stared at it the bigger and stranger it became , looming out of the mist , its grey shrouds entwined round it . |
| 21 | Both belong to the Caprice club which skates at sports centres at Middlesbrough , Eston and Shildon just a quick flip from their homes . |
| 22 | The programme which begins at 8 p.m. , will include modern perspectives on Rossini 's music , in the Soireé Musicales , and on English folk songs , in a work by Vaughan-Williams . |
| 23 | For a repetitive task there may be comparatively little going on in the mind which emerges at the level of consciousness . |
| 24 | Labour 's employment spokesman was blamed for much of the confusion which arose at the TUC on the issue . |
| 25 | Another study which looked at men whose wives had died of cancer of the cervix has shown that there is a much higher incidence of cervical cancer among their second wives than would be expected by chance . |
| 26 | Walker ( 1988 ) , in a study which looked at the race of young males disposed of by the courts in London in 1983 , found that of those prosecuted , more blacks had their case dismissed without trial due to insufficient evidence , suggesting according to Walker , that either ‘ … the police more readily prosecute black people ’ , or that ‘ the court requires more convincing evidence for black defendants ’ ( Walker 1988 , p.459 ) . |
| 27 | Below we include a brief extract from this study which looks at the problems and consequences of conviction for the business , ‘ respectable ’ criminal in comparison to the regular criminal — bearing in mind , of course , that the business criminal is far less likely to be convicted that most other types of criminal . |
| 28 | Only his wife Mary , always calm , and still , at the age of forty , a great beauty , could guess at the real distress which tore at him . |
| 29 | However , there is a place in social research , and a very important one , for the type of interview which stands at the other extreme to the structured one , namely the non-standardised interview . |
| 30 | Bob Swatman , 73 , branch chairman , of Low Lane , Middlesbrough , had to wait 17 hours on the beach before he was eventually evacuated with 65 others by a fishing boat which landed at Margate Pier . |