Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many households it is conventional for everyone to retire at the same time , and to re-emerge simultaneously in the morning , with scant toleration being shown to individuals who do not conform . |
| 2 | He is too useful for me to discard at the present time . |
| 3 | John was confident enough then to leave Flynn to it and to go off himself to look at the proposed routes of the Waterford & limerick and the Waterford & kilkenny lines , both of which had been authorized by Parliament last year but neither of which had yet gone to tender . |
| 4 | By designating such materials as in varying degrees precious they have created symbols of excellence , a quality which stems from aesthetic awareness but the striving for which lies at the very root of the civilizations created by man . |
| 5 | The three of them looked at the dark-dressed figure of their brother , his head back , as he stared at the huge oil painting of highland cattle hanging on the broad stone wall of the fireplace , and he answered , ‘ I do n't know , Reggie . |
| 6 | And the contact turned into an embrace without either of them looking at the other or talking , they just put their arms around each other . |
| 7 | She eventually found one who was also an art collector and paid him for operating on her with her own works of art , most of them created at the Fine Arts School of Dijon where she teaches . |
| 8 | At least that is one message 1500 of them gape at the first ever BAYSDAY , held earlier this month at various institutions in London 's museum heartland . |
| 9 | Her father and mother were sitting tensely on the sofa , Omi at the table , upright , disdain on her fine features , Bodo , huge against the wall , and all of them staring at the stubby , shabby , ash-stained figure of Marx , blinking through his red eyes at the document and reading aloud in an artificially solemn voice , practised in legal jargon and with which he , no doubt , had read out a hundred , a thousand , such documents . |
| 10 | Even the Committee felt low , not one of them arrived at the next schedule meeting ! |
| 11 | The two of them arrived at the broken gate of a house even more rackety than its peeling neighbours . |
| 12 | An antediluvian handful of hon. Members , many of them retiring at the next election , are not keen on these matters , but they are a diminishing and insignificant number . |
| 13 | Around 100 members and guests participated in the programmes , the first of which looked at the future economic development of Scotland while the second examined the social and political circumstances relating to the ambitions outlined in the first . |
| 14 | Mr Hague could usefully ask the same question about the Esk Valley line , part of which runs at the opposite end of his constituency . |
| 15 | And I mean I think women tend to be inv having to cope with things like school and er and health and you know they 're a at the grass roots if you like of you know at the receiving end of you know say cuts in in services like that and bus services and just quality of rural life and I mean the quality of life in Blaenau is depopulation and unemployment and you know and and in a sense there is lot of scope for women to break down the barriers of you know cos it is true that the the Councillors they 're supposed to represent the people or whatever tend to be quite well to do they 've done it thank you very much and then oh you know they 've got the time on their hands and they tend to be men and s school ex school teachers ex You know and they 're not having to cope with really situations that go will put them in touch with what it 's like not to have a bus service or not to have proper health care and this sort of thing you know . |
| 16 | On most of the nationalisation stock ( paid to compensate former owners ) and earlier long-term borrowings they inherited at nationalisation ( much of it raised at the low interest rates of the 1930s ) they paid only 3 per cent . |
| 17 | At this stage any member is free to raise any points concerning the accuracy of the report of what happened at the previous meeting , as recorded in the minutes . |
| 18 | Three of us met at the Lesbian Sex and Sexual Practice Conference in London in 1983 . |
| 19 | I enclose herewith a photocopy of my suggested replies to the various categories , with the exception of ‘ What is your planned use of reserves ? ’ and ‘ What is your Regional charge on band D of the Council Tax ? ’ , both of which I will leave for you to insert at the appropriate time . |
| 20 | Standing behind them looking at the steaming urn on the barrow , I felt worse than hungover ; it was a mixture of too little sleep , being hot and unwashed , completely unaware of what was going on , and worst , I was hungry . |
| 21 | Let's see if we can refine those like us looking at the first two lines of the play . |
| 22 | On the second task — to cut inflation , the budget deficit and Italy 's vast public debt — Mr Ciampi must rely on his reputation as a defender of sound money to overcome opposition from populist politicians with everything to lose at the next general election . |
| 23 | As I discussed the history of changes in prisons with officials or ex-officials of TDC , or colleagues at the Criminal Justice Center , I came to think that the most logical order in which to look at the contemporary response to the questions that Howard raised was not the same as that which he followed in those chapters . |
| 24 | But how can the machine know the right order in which to look at the various possibilities ? |
| 25 | Indeed it is a credit to Wilko that the board have been confident enough in him to compete at the highest levels in the transfer market . |
| 26 | The reason lies in what happens at the insulated gate itself . |
| 27 | The eagerness with which the boy sought for knowledge , however , so impressed his schoolmaster that he continued to teach him without a fee ; then , through Hooker 's uncle who was Chamberlain of Exeter , he persuaded John Jewel , Bishop of Salisbury , to pay for him to study at the latter 's old college of Corpus Christi at Oxford . |
| 28 | Of course , there are no witnesses to what happened at the other end of her journey . |
| 29 | You see the thing is you can record and listen to yourself speaking at the same time ? |
| 30 | So it promises to bridge the gap that still in fact exists in many if not most organizations between what happens at the local and individual level and what 's happening at the corporate level . |