Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We all read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee . |
| 2 | SO WROTE Stephen Vincent Benet , who also penned the immortal line ‘ Bury my heart at Wounded Knee . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ An my experience at Imperial had shown me the growing need in this country to find free-standing sites on the outskirts of towns , away from parking problems and inner city violence . |
| 4 | In Damascus he would have loved baiting Marwan , the AP reporter , with Nick ; at the Comedy Store he would have laughed at the idea of the song someone had written for him — ‘ The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Bullets ’ ; , and my début at live interviews would have provided another entry for his file of great lines . |
| 5 | Also on the limestone , I Should Coco , E5 6b , the line of four bolts right of Snails Ate My Lampshade at Bent Tor — first ascent by Pete Cresswell and Cathy Duffill . |
| 6 | He conducted detailed negotiations with a consortium of the four clearing banks and , enlisting my assistance at occasional meetings , contrived an arrangement with them that made the economics a possibility , while , I have to confess , retaining some attraction for the banks . |
| 7 | An hour later I was fastening my safety-belt at LAX . |
| 8 | That is a great deal of money Minnie which I do not need to tell you and would without doubt enable me to bring over my first-born at long last . |
| 9 | Fixtures include electric windows all round ( but manual door mirrors ) , steering wheel and driver 's seat adjustable for height leaving a full five fingers above my head at full height . |
| 10 | ‘ I am sure I could have finished my career at Ayresome Park . |
| 11 | Back from my vacation at glorious unsunny Bucket World . |
| 12 | I also tried my hand at professional decorating . |
| 13 | ‘ Of all the people in my class at naval college I am the only one still in the service . ’ |
| 14 | For some reason I was unable to fathom , all the girls in my class at secondary school headed for Aviemore each weekend with the singular task of losing their virginity . |
| 15 | I 've been ringing my family at regular intervals to see how things are going . ’ |
| 16 | The octopus can even modify the texture of its skin at high speed , a smooth , plain surface suddenly furrowing up into complex folds and ridges and gaining a complex blotched patterning at the same time . |
| 17 | If foreign bankers thought that the UK was not serious about balancing its books at some future time , they would be reluctant to lend their money at low interest . |
| 18 | We miss her presence at head office — both as a character and a colleague on whom we could rely 100 per cent . |
| 19 | My daughter , Dr Ann Mitchell , who got her PhD at Heriot-Watt University in microbiology , spends much of her time in the Caquita Medio region of the Columbian Amazon , living and working with the Uitoto y Muinane Indians observing their healing techniques and categorising and collecting plant specimens . |
| 20 | OUR MONTHLY BEGINNER 'S GUIDE TO COMPUTING CONTINUES ITS LOOK AT DIFFERENT FILE TYPES . |
| 21 | More and more worried teenagers spend their Easter at intensive revision courses , such as those run by Cherwell Tutors in Oxford . |
| 22 | That was Sarah talking about her course at Fast Forward . |
| 23 | Clearly the nature of the defences and their effect at individual sites may be yet another indicator of different levels of complexity and status . |
| 24 | For example , the two charges may be of some atomic distance ( of the order of 10 -10 m ) apart , whereas we are interested in their effect at macroscopic distances ; or take the so-called dipole aerial where the assumed separation of charges is small in comparison with the wavelength of oscillation . |
| 25 | It is never their fault at local level . |
| 26 | Their attempt at automatic application of the ANLT parser to the noun phrases failed due to ‘ inadequacies of grammatical coverage and because of resource limitations with long and multiply-ambiguous NPs ’ which resulted in ‘ very high numbers of automatically generated parses ’ . |
| 27 | But if they were always selling their stock at genuine bargain prices , they would never make any money . |
| 28 | The interior of the cave soon admits daylight from a vertical shaft on the moor above , Little Douk pot , and then meanders in darkness for half a mile to its entrance at Middle Washfold , due south over the wall in the next allotment where an isolated outcrop of limestone makes a white scar on the dark moor . |
| 29 | Last night she was unrepentant about her broadside at chubby Lord Hesketh , the Tory Chief Whip in the Lords . |
| 30 | We have , however , taken every opportunity to let colleagues whose departments are not included on the tour see Her Majesty at various points and to play a part in the visit . ’ |