Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 Tom unbuttoned his overcoat , fished in the pocket of the dark suit which he scathingly referred to as his ‘ city uniform ’ for his identity card and flashed it at the uniformed security man .
2 The Chinese believe that to stand on one leg while kicking with the other unbalances the practitioner and places him at a disadvantage .
3 And finally two Ayr police officers said that a shelved 1969 report showed they had picked up a man ‘ of slight build and a Glasgow accent who said his name was McGuigan or McGuinness ’ some 600 yards from the Ross bungalow in the early hours of the morning of the murder and dropped him at the bus station ; and they now declared from photographs recently shown to them that the man was William McGuinness .
4 Deliberately , he lifted the photograph and flung it at the fireplace .
5 I made contact with Sheringham through an agent and met him at a hotel .
6 A dozen years ago , half ICI 's sales were in the UK , tying the company 's fortunes to Britain 's anaemic manufacturing industry and putting it at a colossal disadvantage to rivals in more robust economies ; last year , the proportion was down to 21% , against 31% in the Americas , 25% in continental Europe , 17% in the Asia-Pacific region and 6% elsewhere .
7 The volume of consumption should be adjusted by altering taxes and social insurance contributions , raising them to dampen down a boom and cutting them at the beginning of a depression .
8 Remember you can not receive a confrontation and give one at the same time .
9 It 's great to see those guys out here , giving pleasure and enjoying themselves at the same time .
10 It is much better to have one review and to have it at the beginning of the Parliament , and that is exactly what we shall do .
11 The scene that greeted her at the top was already less frightening than it had been when Phoebe arrived .
12 the sad news for golfers is that you 've a better chance of watching the sport than playing it at the Oxfordshire club … membership is being limited to 750 and the joining fee is twenty five thousand pounds …
13 Like someone in a trance , she gazed at the clasp that fastened it at the throat .
14 On present thinking , it would be more logical to treat it as revision and to do it at the later stage .
15 I remember when Mike was a baby and I went home with my shopping and left him at the check-out in Sainsbury 's .
16 They followed Fiver up the run and overtook him at the entrance .
17 If I forgive you for being male and cruel and unreasonable , you must forgive me for being female and for carrying another man 's child and wanting you at the same time .
18 ‘ When we 're ready to leave I 'll go to the clinic , get my passport out of the desk and meet you at the airport .
19 And now she did what she had promised herself she would do , and lifted her foot and aimed it at the nun 's shin .
20 Thirdly , the model suggests one way of accounting for the peculiar nature of mathematics , computing and language , as the disciplines which constitute our stances in and towards the world , and for the way they relate to other disciplines , both servicing them at a mundane level and pervading them at a profound level .
21 Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl .
22 She looked into the eyes of this human peacock and found herself at a complete loss for words ; and he too seemed surprised by this girl who had agreed to be his bride : he looked up at her ( she was half a head taller than he ) in a way that she might have interpreted as hostile had she not been in too much of a turmoil herself to notice it .
23 She wrapped up warmly , winding a scarf round her neck , crossing it over her chest and pinning it at the back , as her mother had done in her childhood .
24 I was particularly taken by Patricia Routledge , unmistakeable even looking through a letter box , and by Lionel Jeffries for his affecting rendition of : The troops are ready to mutiny , The colonel is missing or dead , When up steps a bold , young lieutenant And places himself at the head .
25 They revel in their bloodlust and gratify it at every opportunity .
26 Because the high power electron beam would damage the magnets , a magnetic transport system ( not shown ) injects the beam into the wiggler and removes it at the exit .
27 I walked round the walled field and found myself at the edge of a tinkers ' camp .
28 Their education certainly suffered as the teachers did not like them interrupting the curriculum and sat them at the back of the class and told them to write home .
29 I thought , a laugh being pretty well the only dealing with the truth that offered itself at the moment , and so nothing to run down .
30 Even if I did n't have a job that keeps me at the other end of the country for most of the year , this sort of place could n't provide a living .
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