Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ pure ’ entrepreneur observes the opportunity to sell something at a price higher than that at which he can buy it . |
| 2 | They also included the operation of ‘ stand down , ’ by which the airline retained scarce skills by allowing people to work elsewhere on part pay but having the opportunity to recall them at a month 's notice . |
| 3 | In winter the chestnut-seller installed himself at the edge of the market . |
| 4 | The male positions himself at the edge of the nest and fires a rapid succession of water droplets one to two inches out of the water and onto the nest itself to possibly agitate the eggs for recognition purposes . |
| 5 | Last Wednesday we invited the 4 British students studying at the University to visit us at the hotel for dinner . |
| 6 | and we went in and like the vicar greets you at the door do n't he and she was like up to the vicar like , you know , she 's more fucking heavier than thou |
| 7 | he sez they went to several addresses but then the driver surrendered himself at the police station . |
| 8 | Tweed caught a cab , told the driver to drop him at the Piccadilly entrance to the Burlington Arcade . |
| 9 | The president , meanwhile , stood high in the public opinion polls after the attempt to assassinate him at the end of March . |
| 10 | The second exception was established in Tuberville v. Stamp where it was held that liability extended to a fire originating in a field as much as to one beginning in a house , but if the defendant kindles it at a proper time and place and the violence of the wind carry it to his neighbour 's land , that is fit to be given in evidence . |
| 11 | ‘ HA HA HA HA HA HA , ’ the little girl went in the next picture-square , and ‘ BONK read the bubble as the typewriter hit her at the end of the joke . |
| 12 | For managers , the issue manifests itself at a more procedural level , and is now revolving around resource management . |
| 13 | The planners , the Planning Committee , and the Council found themselves at the centre of the great deal of public agitation in which the reputation of the Council sank to a very low level . |
| 14 | So if the council refused it at the meeting it 's their people that 's refused it ! |
| 15 | ‘ You do n't see a carpenter saying he wo n't build a house because he does n't like what 's next door and he 's going to wait until there 's a house with 8.3 rooms and the sun has it at a certain angle and then he 'll pound his nails and he wants billing above the plumber . ’ |
| 16 | The coach dropped me at the Lofleiđ3ir , a palatial hotel . |
| 17 | Clough will consider it a much needed morale booster if he can get Keane 's signature on the new deal , even though the battle to keep him at the City Ground is far from being won . |
| 18 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 19 | Hewett despatched Charlton around the outside of the inn to meet them at the outside door , while he and the landlord hurried through to the tap room . |
| 20 | It was n't the truth awaiting her at the château that she feared , but one much closer to home . |
| 21 | The suggestions included limiting Congress 's powers only to proposing amendments to the Constitution , and allowing Yeltsin to retain the right granted him at the October-November 1991 extraordinary Congress to appoint ministers without approval from the legislature . |
| 22 | The much-rumoured pact will see Insignia admit it has a license to Windows source code and the right to modify it at the application programming interface level to improve the performance of SoftPC , its Windows-on-Unix package . |
| 23 | The much-rumoured pact will see Insignia admit it has a licence to Windows source code and the right to modify it at the application programming interface level to improve the performance of SoftPC , its Windows-under-Unix package . |
| 24 | When the plaintiff presented himself at the theatre , the defendant , who was X 's servant and manager of the theatre , detected the plaintiff and refused to admit him . |
| 25 | The title track delivers the most catchy moments and it was a good ploy by the group to place it at the end of the tape . |
| 26 | The tailor measured me at the height of the deluge . |
| 27 | The effect on listed adjoining properties , Donithorn , Riley House and er , the other one , the name escapes me at the moment , erm , and that it will give insufficient curbage to Riley House when er , whatever development takes place there . |
| 28 | The friend found one at a garage . |
| 29 | An order may require the child to allow the supervisor to visit him at the place where he is living ( para 8(1) ( b ) ) . |
| 30 | with it and hand it out week and then at the concert collect it at the end again |