Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took her some time to get used to that but she got the knack of it in the end , and they spent hours together shooting at marks , or at rabbits on the Down or pigeons in the high trees at the forest edge . |
| 2 | RIGHT Part of an ivory plaque dating to the 8th–9th centuries BC found at Nimrud in Iraq . |
| 3 | Designers usually start at floor level in home refurbishments . |
| 4 | Undoubtedly the Coronations were the most handsome cars ever operated at Blackpool , unfortunately they were constructed to a pre-War concept , which by this time had become outmoded . |
| 5 | Purley depôt was deemed to have completed its task as an annexe to Charlton Works by 29 November 1949 and was available to take the cars now housed at Thornton Heath . |
| 6 | The earlier 1pm start to Section 1 matches has virtually ruled out schoolboy cricketers , who are also denied Touche Ross Cup selection with ties now beginning at noon . |
| 7 | presents here start at 20p for a small plastic tortoise , with a teddy at 50p . |
| 8 | The two fighters then stand at attention awaiting instructions to begin . |
| 9 | Typically subjects either described at length one feature of interest ignoring all others , or else they gave several brief cryptic comments which could not unambiguously assigned to particular objects in the film . |
| 10 | Herons generally fish at dawn before the gardener has stirred and it may be some time before the pool-owner is aware that his fish are disappearing . |
| 11 | He discovered from Nicholson senior that Nails rarely slept at home and from Nails 's classmates that he went off with a woman on a motor-bike at four o'clock everyday . |
| 12 | American banks ' loans totalled $157 billion in 1992 , of which one-fifth were not being serviced ; British banks ' lending to property companies alone stood at £37 billion in March 1993 . |
| 13 | Football specials still arrive at Wadsley Bridge although the station had not been in normal use since 1959 . |
| 14 | This , so-called ‘ Spens formula , ’ affords reasonable protection in the case of listed companies but preference shareholders in unquoted companies still remain at risk . |
| 15 | Shoes now priced at £56.95 will be £26.95 , others at £72.95 will be down to £32.95 . |
| 16 | Net balances now stand at £11.4m. 1992 saw Peek ridding itself of Greenpar Connectors Ltd and its distribution company Dubilier GmbH ; of the US utility sales and service business of Husky Computers ; and the remaining aerospace division of New York-based Computer Instruments Corp . |
| 17 | Place in gallery with no windows and visitors everywhere looking at pictures on walls and it is something else . |
| 18 | The two criticisms commonly levelled at Prince are that a particular song is ‘ overdone ’ or that it 's ‘ unrealized ’ . |
| 19 | In addition , pairs usually breed at Bracklesham Bay , Aldingbourne gravel pits , the Crumbles , and Normans Bay , and up to nine pairs do so at the Midrips . |
| 20 | For instance , instead of sending work to the paint shop to be painted , the painters were in many cases permanently located at points where work was sufficiently finished . |
| 21 | In the great Victorian cities of Birmingham , Liverpool , Manchester , Newcastle and Sheffield fewer than one in ten of the population went to church or chapel ; the industrial working classes mostly stayed at home . |
| 22 | Alternatives would be offered in the curriculum plan but there would also be opportunity for many other alternatives hopefully designed at teachers ' workshops . |
| 23 | Students ' attitudes on university funding are to be studied by means of the following design : where S 1 and S 2 are random samples of students starting their second and first years respectively interviewed at time T 1 . |
| 24 | As regards other time-measuring instruments , extensive remains of two monumental Islamic water-clocks still survive at Fez in Morocco . |
| 25 | Throughout the week , Christians also gathered at lunchtime at St. Austin 's church in the city , with the service led by a different denomination each day . |
| 26 | THE body of a French charity worker killed in the shooting down of a Medicins sans Frontieres ( MSF ) plane in southern Sudan nine days ago exploded at Khartoum airport in what is thought to have been a booby-trap . |
| 27 | erm another area of my work is as I er writing workshops , the writing workshops are very different from the normal writing workshops there based at galleries and they take groups of people round an exhibition recording their comments on either one particular picture or the exhibition as a whole and then with my help we put the comments into poems that are then displayed along side the exhibits , erm this work I do with erm all sorts of people with children people with special needs , disabled people and , and that 's really where my interest in art erm comes in and I find that its a great leveller for people who would like to express themselves and have perhaps have difficulty by aiding , by looking at paintings and being able to see perhaps emotions or images that they , they feel themselves , so in all areas erm I find painting in my areas of work , painting influences me and has done for as , as long as I can remember . |
| 28 | The cost to the Nation of having 10% of its work force idle is equivalent to the loss of the oil revenues currently estimated at £20,000 million per year . |
| 29 | However , these two commanders also remained at sea throughout the landings and so had as little idea as Hamilton of what was going forward . |
| 30 | Their fleets soon arrived at Constantinople and the war promised to be the most wide-ranging since the fall of the first Napoleon . |