Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |
| 2 | As I told a couple of surveyors I met at the ground earlier today , ‘ Building on here would be like trying to wallpaper a Slumberland mattress . ’ |
| 3 | However , during the initial discussions I hinted at the desirability of video recording or tape recording their science teaching , to examine their use of questioning . |
| 4 | Trying to ignore this assault on my fundamental antinomies I peered at the train set . |
| 5 | Now I do n't care what people say : at times I look at the child and I am so happy I ca n't sleep at night . |
| 6 | However , at other times I feel at the end of my tether . |
| 7 | In 1980 when Allan Wells won a Gold Medal at the Olympics I looked at the British tracksuits and thought : well , nothing much has changed in 56 years ! |
| 8 | The third congress of journalists which met at the end of January simply stressed the importance of party leadership of the press and made no practical survey of what was actually happening . |
| 9 | But in the 1860s and 1870s the development of the steam trawler , the use of ice for preservation , and the exploitation of the rail network signalled the arrival of cheap cod and made possible the fish-and-chip shops which multiplied at the end of the century to furnish an important source of protein to the working class . |
| 10 | A sequence of words which ends at a point where a pause may be made without any detrimental effect to the sense of the utterance . |
| 11 | It is necessary to look at the words which appear at the foot of the defined expressions in section 251 . |
| 12 | That this was an error was explained to the House by Lord Eversley , who then stated that ‘ the case was provided for by words which appear at the end of the clause ’ . |
| 13 | They must consider all new books as well as the old ones , and must therefore hold back enough funds to cover those books which appear at the end of the financial year . |
| 14 | The growth of European Community funded farming has increased losses which began at the beginning of the century . |
| 15 | Darlington ladies held Boston well away from home and on the two rinks who played at the Morrison Centre . |
| 16 | These questions , among others , exercised a group of educationists who met at a seminar on accountability sponsored by the SSRC and held at Cambridge ( England ) in 1977 . |
| 17 | Four porters who worked at the Heathrow Penta Hotel refused to meet or greet guests , deliver keys to rooms or move luggage if a guest transferred to a new room . |
| 18 | Many candidates who start at the bottom skip grades on the way up , or , perhaps because of pressure of other work , take more than a year between adjoining grades . |
| 19 | From Councillor Brereton to the Chief Constable of Lothian and Borders Police and to Wimpey Homes Holdings Ltd detailing the problems caused by teenagers who congregate at the wall leading from Baberton Mains Dell to Wester Hailes . |
| 20 | For the first few months she trembled at the thought of performing an official engagement on her own . |
| 21 | If we can maintain our level of performance we will give the fans something to celebrate at the end of the year . ’ |
| 22 | Table 10.4 examines each of the sectors we identified at the beginning of the appendix . |
| 23 | It is impossible to describe all the uplifting and thought-provoking sessions we had at the Farm , but an especially wonderful experience for me was the fantasy meditation . |
| 24 | They are like the metaphorical gender attributions we examined at the beginning of this chapter , in that they follow no single principle , they do not remain constant from one context to another and they vary from culture to culture . |
| 25 | The issues raised by this and subsequent questions go to the heart of the debate on the Compensation Fund , and it is apparent that many of those who answered negatively felt to varying degrees that in the present commercial climate the public could no longer expect the entire profession to compensate them for any losses they suffered at the hands of a tiny minority of errant solicitors — particularly as no comparable compensation was available from the providers of other professional services . |
| 26 | The restricted range of animals he saw at the College , and the limited nature of their diseases , inevitably meant that his experience was narrowly based . |
| 27 | … stout Cortez , when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with wild surmise — Silent , upon a peak in Darién . |
| 28 | In retrospect it is hard to judge the extent to which the success of this policy ( and , for all the worries it caused at the time , it was a success by comparison with the economy management disasters of the 1960s and 1970s ) was due to good management , and the extent to which it was due to external and internal economic factors outside government control , in particular to the postwar recovery and the stimulus provided by the continuing military activity of the ‘ cold war ’ . |
| 29 | With these words he ran at the Husayn twins and started to belabour them with his plastic sword . |
| 30 | Within 6 months he excels at the art . |