Example sentences of "who [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country I guess but but where I come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they could n't get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry I think you 'd probably call it in Scotland , do n't they ? |
| 2 | Who lived at the top end of our street |
| 3 | As we progress up the scale of profit-taking , we find others who sell at small craft fairs and those who find an outlet through local shops , until we come at last to the favoured few who sell at the prestigious crafts fairs which Hugh prefers . |
| 4 | These machines are chess-playing calculators ; even the weakest is better than the average chess player ( someone who plays at the median strength of all those who know the rules ) . |
| 5 | They are a one-time indie rock past , with disturbing goth-loving tendencies , who met at an Iggy Pop gig while studying at East Anglia University . |
| 6 | Yet more importantly , the upper levels of the program have no access to the levels below them : the programmer who writes at the topmost , or accessible , level has no need to know how his program is being translated , even though for certain purposes he might wish to find out . |
| 7 | Artai could not have declared any public intent to marry Jehana , Alexei realised , or it would have been the talk of Kinsai. probably there were rumours — nothing was ever entirely a secret at court — and he glanced again at the women who clustered at the other end of the pool . |
| 8 | But before Budd came on , they had to listen to Andy Roberts , who stands at the opposite end of ufology to Hopkins and whose new book , Phantoms Of The Sky ( written with Dave Clarke , published by Robert Hale ) , gave the conference its name . |
| 9 | Mr Taylor , who trained at the Royal Ballet School with Mr Gable at the age of 16 , defended his report when he told the D & S on Wednesday : |
| 10 | The Doctor realises that there is no way the two teachers could have achieved all this , but it is Barbara who arrives at the real solution . |
| 11 | When the attack finally came Madrid withstood it , thanks in part to the courage of the left-wing militias and the ordinary people of the city , and in part to the stiffening effect of the first International Brigades — foreign volunteers organized by the Comintern , who arrived at the crucial moment . |
| 12 | Reason , one might think , for the wary traveller to duck behind the luggage lockers , but no , the assembly listens rapt as John Berger ( for it is he ) embarks upon a long yarn about two Italian peasants who meet at a Communist Party dance . |
| 13 | A dapper stranger ( John Berger ) hoves into view and launches into a long , rather tedious yarn about two Italian peasants who meet at a Communist Party dance . |
| 14 | Held to coincide with May Day ( celebrated elsewhere in the capital by some 5,000 people ) , the 2,000-strong congress met the violent opposition of left-wingers who protested at the various anti-Semitic , nationalist , conservative Catholic , and free-market views of the participants . |
| 15 | I found it my calling to be the one in the NME office who flinched at the very sight of their wibbly-wobbly figurines and pretend four-track album which was really 12 tracks , the over-educated jessies ! |
| 16 | He was buried in the graveyard at St Luke 's Church , Whyteleafe , in Airmen 's Corner , a plot set aside for those who served at the nearby Kenley base and at Croydon . |
| 17 | Julie , who taught at a local school in a notoriously rough , tough area of the city , shrugged her shoulders . |
| 18 | The man , from Nottingham , was one of three , all aged 19 , who collapsed at the all-night rave at the Hummingbird night club in Birmingham . |
| 19 | Two of the daughters , Annie and Rose , were painters who exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1887 and 1885 . |
| 20 | The second man ( who appears at the left-hand side of the composition , drawing back a curtain ) in one of the earliest sketches , carries a skull , and Picasso identified him as a medical student . |
| 21 | But this easiness on the eye , and Michael Hordem 's predictably effective narration , will not deter criticism From those who demur at the implicit assumption that man 's continuing affection for gardens arises out of a folk memory of being cast out of the Garden of Eden and a consequent urge to recreate this paradise . |
| 22 | Sheila Baughan , who worked at a local school , was found holding a telephone . |
| 23 | Dependents of one man who worked at the controversial Sellafield plant in Cumbria and died of lung cancer in 1989 received a ‘ quarter payment ’ of £15,243 . |
| 24 | One notes S. A. Waksman ( 1888–1973 ) , who worked at the Agricultural Experimental Station of the State University of New Jersey . |
| 25 | It is a sentiment shared by many — and especially those who worked at the once-thriving Basingstoke office , now destined for the annals of feed industry history . |
| 26 | But now she raised her eyes and did look , differently , at Alice , the housemate of a Council official who worked at the main office for this area . |
| 27 | ( Who are these strange people , Peter and Susan , who labour at the obvious ? |
| 28 | Clutching her battered handbag , graceless in her servant 's clothes , Sally-Anne Tunstall advanced into the ambassador 's private drawing-room to confront her mother and father , who stared at the strange sight she presented . |
| 29 | A twelve-year-old , who listened at the living-room door to what was going on , wanted to run , but knew he 'd be followed . |
| 30 | A 16 year old who spoke at a Young Enterprise presentation admitted that he was not much of a public speaker and that he had become disaffected with school where he had ‘ failed ’ regularly . |