Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prince chewed at a fingernail as he stared at the map . |
| 2 | The Prince glanced at a clock . |
| 3 | These intermediate times show very clearly that all modes apart from the cycle had periods of fast or slow movement , whereas the bike continued at a consistent pace . |
| 4 | ‘ The award comes at a good time . |
| 5 | The blow came at a meeting on Saturday when members voted not to let him stand as an election candidate — despite a recommendation to accept him by the executive committee . |
| 6 | The case comes at an embarrassing time for the world 's largest industrial company , which is already deep in the red and under attack for its bureaucratic management style . |
| 7 | As well as being fully adequate at the beginning , the text ends at a suitable and sufficient point ; the possible significance of this can evidently easily be missed . |
| 8 | Elisabeth recalled the times she had seen the midwife arrive at a peasant 's cottage . … |
| 9 | Two general reviews of the field presented at an introductory level are Bally et al. |
| 10 | The clerk stared at a point above the priest 's head |
| 11 | The decision came at a time when 1,500,000 besieged refugees in the city of Asmara , the last government stronghold in Eritrea , faced imminent death by starvation . |
| 12 | The decision came at a meeting of the new 14-member Consultative Group on Indonesia in Paris on July 16-17 , chaired by the World Bank , set up after Indonesia dissolved a Netherlands-led aid forum in March in protest at alleged Netherlands interference in its internal affairs [ see p. 38868 ] . |
| 13 | As he knows , the decision made at an earlier stage not to complete the slip road was considered to be ludicrous . |
| 14 | You would have to be a professional cobbler-up of sit-coms to give much credence to the available scenarios , but just in case , I suppose they are that : a ) the tests were so incompetently performed that even a baboon 's sample would have produced the same reading as was clocked by the three athletes identically ; b ) the three runners were having a joke at the testers ' expense ; c ) the German trio was deliberately testing the vigilance of the drug monitors at a relatively out-of-the-way venue , for reasons of their own ; d ) that the samples were not urine at all but a draught of refreshing Lucozade , tested in error . |
| 15 | The wave propagated at a rate of 3–10μms r-1 . |
| 16 | The trail began at a street in Cardiff . |
| 17 | The story begins at a place called Deduru-Oya some 50 miles ( 80 km ) distant . |
| 18 | Participants listened to the story read at an even pace of around 120 words per minute and had to write down all the errors they could detect as they heard them or insert the missing word . |
| 19 | The story ends at a funeral , hovered over by a surreal balloon , from which hangs a fancied female acrobat . |
| 20 | Through a combination of expenditure cuts , tax changes and asset sales amounting in total to L48,000,000 million , the budget aimed at a surplus before interest payments of L8,100,000 million , thereby achieving a deficit after interest payments of L132,000,000 million ( approximately US$97,500 million ) , representing 9.3 per cent of GDP . |
| 21 | The stick waggled at a great building nesting among its outhouses at the bottom of the village . |
| 22 | They cover the whole spectrum of agriculture and forestry and deal with the necessity to arrive at a situation where we no longer talk about a common agricultural policy but a common rural policy . |
| 23 | The red of the blood drunk at a feast . |
| 24 | The tragedy happened at a transport depot in the town . |
| 25 | Planning officers had recommended refusal although chief officer Tony Noble warned that they may have to pay costs if the applicant succeeded at a subsequent appeal . |
| 26 | It 's funny how the mind works at a time like this I could n't hear anything so I called : ‘ Warton , Golf Zulu Sierra . |
| 27 | The action proceeds at a leisurely clip , filtered through Richard 's bemused and occasionally befuddled consciousness ( a disabling hangover gets a welcome tick on the checklist ) . |
| 28 | Behind them , the Monument leant at a crazy angle , its foundations undermined by the yawning pit beside it . |
| 29 | The delegation looked at a range of hotel operations including food preparation , customer care programmes , sales and marketing and budgeting . |
| 30 | When the enemy shoots at a unit of Night Goblin Netters randomise any hits amongst the potential targets . |