Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this country this achievement was largely due to the group of highly intelligent young men who were gathered together at Farnborough in the famous Chudleigh Mess in the first War . |
| 2 | C. P. Snow I met only at feasts at Churchill College , where he was a Fellow . |
| 3 | But what a difference a few days can make Saints crashed badly at home to Bradford Northern on the day when Doug Laughton 's men were giving arguably their best performance of the season in running up a convincing score against his old club Widnes . |
| 4 | Analogous to these are some fine vases , all of one shape ( hydria , water-pot ) and decorated probably by only two painters , found mostly at Caere in Etruria and probably made in the Greek quarter there . |
| 5 | Mildred closed her eyes again , hoping that perhaps it was only a nightmare , but when she sneaked another look , the apparition was still there , and now it began patting gently at Mildred with its gigantic paws . |
| 6 | This is the only court of appeal for cases tried by the military court , and looks only at points of law and not at facts and findings , thus providing a restricted appeal . |
| 7 | The pond is virtually sterile except for algal mats which grow only at points about its edges where fresh water is available ( Harris et al . , |
| 8 | The arts professional development teachers of the one LEA in the sample which had a cross-curriculum team looked enviously at colleagues in other curriculum areas who had national associations where they could meet to exchange curriculum and strategic information . |
| 9 | We climbed far enough to find some specimens of the Mount Cook lily ( which is n't a lily at all , but a giant buttercup found only at altitude in this part of the South Island ) , and while the others rested I went across to investigate a steep track up a snow-filled gully . |
| 10 | They attended the same school in Chelsea , became firm friends and many years later were to work together at Cambridge in the interests of botany . |
| 11 | Dr Groome fiddled with the slab and Ella Raines came up , walking alone at night along a deserted railroad platform . |
| 12 | When buying leather corals , the main thing to check is that there are no bacterial infections , which appear generally at sites of mechanical damage , as areas of greyish slime . |
| 13 | He laughed loudly at things that were n't funny and littered his English with expletives to appear more at home in the language . |
| 14 | But , my , if he were to come home at Aintree on Old Applejack how the tale would be told . |
| 15 | And then Bissell had looked directly at Rohmer with those hellish , black eyes … and he had smiled . |
| 16 | A twenty-three year old woman has been accused of causing the death of another woman by driving dangerously at speeds of up to 90 miles an hour with her one-year-old daughter on her lap . |
| 17 | If on the other hand the signalling cells grew into such a shape that they could come into direct contact with their target organs the chemical signal could be discharged directly at site across the ‘ synaptic ’ gap between the cells . |
| 18 | The couple were walking home at midnight in February when Watson struck . |
| 19 | Instead , he was living in a north London flat and working weekdays in a City bank , returning home at night to a difficult marriage . |
| 20 | Hundreds of riot police then charged repeatedly at scores of Left-wingers and pushed them back from the podium so that President Weizsaecker could begin his speech . |
| 21 | The little manor-house at Cadhay stands near at hand in the Ottery meadows , and more distant views reach as far as the great hill-fort at Hembury , built on a commanding spur of land in the late Iron Age . |
| 22 | The colour scheme is blue and white and the blue-and-white china Kate collects looks perfectly at home on the old white-painted dresser . |
| 23 | Bottom : Kate 's collection of blue and white china looks perfectly at home on the country-style white dresser |
| 24 | Located uniquely at canalside in the city centre on a 130-acre site , including refurbished Victorian buildings and newly-built structures to house an estimated 15,000 competitors and officials . |
| 25 | Targeted particularly at medium to large-size businesses , where the $35m privately-owned company is eager to cash in on the trend towards down-sizing , the software is particularly popular among manufacturers , retailers and service companies in the US , and banks in the UK . |
| 26 | Investment will be targeted particularly at areas of skill shortages and will give people who are now unskilled the chance to acquire basic skills . |
| 27 | She was not suffering from a complex , it was just common sense ; in any case , prizes could be symbolic only , appearing regularly at sales of work , bring-and-buy mornings , fêtes and tombolas , before finally coming to rest . ) |
| 28 | Seaview , a sprawling white villa that would have looked equally at home on some Greek island , was set high on a bluff overlooking the sea , poised like some magical fairy-tale castle , its silhouette sharp against the darkening autumn sky , at its feet the rocky shore that tumbled to the sea . |
| 29 | People used to come here at night at harvest festival time and pray and dance . |
| 30 | Tom himself said it was because he had to work hard at school at subjects other than music , he could not devote himself wholeheartedly to the flute . |