Example sentences of "[verb] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Croydon cars already had cushioned seats of the highest standard on both decks and chromium plated handrails , so that they required less modification than the ex-L.C.C. cars rebuilt at the same time . |
| 32 | Everybody reacted as one , condemning this nonsense and laughing at the bare-faced cheek of it . |
| 33 | She could see her father , foolish in his pride , and the rich gentleman of her mother 's imagination laughing at the poor Durbeyfield family . |
| 34 | Was he laughing at the absurd idea of being an old fogey ? |
| 35 | The two girls totter to the lavatory door , laughing at the funniest thing they 've seen since Grandma sat on her chihuahua . |
| 36 | The sky clears in the childbirth sequence because of Shatov 's sublime murmurings about the arrival of a new human being , but also because the midwife has her sleeves rolled up , because she is attacking a difficult and strenuous professional job , organizing essentials , masterminding the whole exercise , scolding Marie Shatov who allowed Shatov to get between her and the family in which she was a governess ‘ with the egotistical object of marrying you , laughing at the distraught husband on his knees unable either to bear the sound or block his ears before the birth ; and when all is tidied up , ‘ after some pleasant–es about ‘ the happy couple' ’ which were not without a touch of contempt and superciliousness , she went away as well satisfied as before . ’ |
| 37 | Israel and I were both on our knees , side by side , with tears streaming down our faces , yet laughing at the same time . |
| 38 | He was crying and laughing at the same time . |
| 39 | Crazy funnyman Freddie Starr , one of Butlin 's most popular Holiday World entertainers , will keep you laughing at the big star weekend , Friday , October 30 , to Monday , November 2 . |
| 40 | ‘ You 're very kind , ’ said Conway , laughing at the old man . |
| 41 | In other words , the real cost of employing labour rose at the same rate as productivity — over 3 per cent a year ( figure 8.3 ) . |
| 42 | But Peter rose at the same moment . |
| 43 | Like Hutton in bygone times , Stewart seemed galvanised by the disasters occurring at the other end , but was never either intimidated into strokelessness or tempted into a reckless rescue bid , for such an endeavour against this bowling would have been futile . |
| 44 | Changes in proposed greenbelt boundaries affecting a given area , and occurring at the consultative draft stage of local plans and or pre-map stage and the formal deposit of those plans , and or between the deposit copies and proposals subsequently issued by county and local planning authorities by way of desired changes to deposit copies , militate against , and may totally inhibit in relation to that area , emergence within the meaning of the national doctrine most recently propagated in paragraph er within erm paragraph thirty two of the revised version of P P G number One . |
| 45 | It is important to realize then that our symptoms , produced in response to stress , are not solely based upon the stress occurring at the given time , but upon all the stress accumulated in our stress glass over time . |
| 46 | This is occurring at the same time as the Commission is using the single market as an excuse to augment its power for political means . |
| 47 | Frequently it is found that an accident is the result of a combination of adverse circumstances , each of which is normally containable but when occurring at the same time can lead to disaster . |
| 48 | In saying that an event c caused an event e , or that e was the effect of c , we typically have in mind but do not say that a set of things including c , but not necessarily all occurring at the same time , was required for e . |
| 49 | We first met Pacific waters at the windswept village of Puerto Natales , and suddenly there were mountains all around us : mountains and glaciers , and curious seabirds and dolphins and spume-whipped sea , the water a vivid blue under a cloudless sky . |
| 50 | He was educated at the Marischal College of Aberdeen and a private school in Chelsea , and from 1831 till 1835 he attended classes at the University of Edinburgh . |
| 51 | Educated at the Collegiate School , Liverpool , he graduated in 1930 with distinction in history and law from Gonville and Caius College , Cambridge , where he won the Cecil Peace prize ( 1928 ) and became president of the Union ( 1930 ) . |
| 52 | Descartes could not avoid being a product of the Counter-Reformation , having been educated at the Jesuit College of La Flèche . |
| 53 | From the age of thirteen he was educated at the Jesuit College of St Omer , France , winning the laurel wreath for French studies . |
| 54 | Bromhead had been educated at the private school for the deaf in Rugby and was a fluent writer and reader of German , French and Latin . |
| 55 | He was educated at the private school for the deaf at Rugby , and then by private tutors — all entirely by sign language and fingerspelling , as was his sister . |
| 56 | He was educated at the Royal Liberty School , Romford , and , after a brief sojourn in banking , at Pembroke College , Cambridge , where he won cricket blues in 1931 , 1932 , and 1933 . |
| 57 | Thomson was born in Bangalore , India , in 1894 and was educated at the Royal School for Deaf Children , Margate , in England before he went to study art at the London Art School , Kensington , and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1920 . |
| 58 | He was educated at the Royal School , Armagh , and graduated from the Royal University of Ireland in 1884 and from Trinity College , Dublin , in 1885 . |
| 59 | He was educated at the Royal Grammar School , Lancaster . |
| 60 | He was educated at the High School , Hampstead ; Cumming 's College , outside Boulogne ; Westcliff College , Ramsgate ; and Craven College , Highgate . |