Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These machines are chess-playing calculators ; even the weakest is better than the average chess player ( someone who plays at the median strength of all those who know the rules ) . |
| 2 | Everyone in Twin Peaks , from the policeman who cries at the scene of a crime to the lady who appears in certain scenes inexplicably carrying a log , is well , a little weird . |
| 3 | Yet more importantly , the upper levels of the program have no access to the levels below them : the programmer who writes at the topmost , or accessible , level has no need to know how his program is being translated , even though for certain purposes he might wish to find out . |
| 4 | The one who lives at the end of the village . |
| 5 | What a wonderful vision the lady who lives at the top of our road shared with us all ! |
| 6 | Met the lady who lives at the top of our road who shared the vision on Sunday night . |
| 7 | She 's riding her Dad 's horse , Formula One , who lives at the Caradoc Court stables of John Edwards near Ross on Wye . |
| 8 | Maurice Cottrell , who lives at the same nursing home as Les , was lucky enough to have his name picked out of the hat . |
| 9 | To paraphrase Mr Polly , it 's only school that turns the young child from someone who wonders at the marvels around him or her into someone who sees them only in terms of history and geography . |
| 10 | But before Budd came on , they had to listen to Andy Roberts , who stands at the opposite end of ufology to Hopkins and whose new book , Phantoms Of The Sky ( written with Dave Clarke , published by Robert Hale ) , gave the conference its name . |
| 11 | ‘ We have a saying in my country , ‘ for him who stands at the top of the tower there is no other season but winter . ’ |
| 12 | Here is an example of an impro exercise for two actors : ‘ An actor is asked to assume the character of a close family friend who arrives at the house with the news of the death of the wife 's husband in an accident . |
| 13 | The Doctor realises that there is no way the two teachers could have achieved all this , but it is Barbara who arrives at the real solution . |
| 14 | A proxy is someone who votes at the polling station for you . |
| 15 | I know a guy who bowls at the Bromley Bowling Club in exactly and he told me that they have professional green keepers who look after lots of different greens and they come into them once a week or whatever . |
| 16 | Only the orphan until the final chapter , when even she would sit by a warm fire , rescued at last from a cruel world and adult depredations by the long-lost loving parent who waits at the end of every unhappy child 's rainbow . |
| 17 | A traveller is any person who calls at the inn to use the services there available . |
| 18 | The unanimously selected winner was Julie McDonnel who calls at the branch regularly as part of her job at Harwell 's Social Club . |
| 19 | He speaks a few sentences of rapid Thai to the guard , who stares at the two of them , breaks into a comprehending smile and turns away back to his hut at the foot of the drive . |
| 20 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman , who smiles at the idea , did not answer the question . |
| 21 | And , finally , for everyone who groans at the idea of a twice-weekly exercise class , what about trying toning tables ? |
| 22 | John Pearson , who appears at the Wine Garden , Alton , on Tuesday , of of the 1960s decade of British blues musicians , acknowledged to be coming of age in the 1990s — their mature talents now best equipped for the task of bringing that conviction to their music that only age and experience can provide . |
| 23 | The second man ( who appears at the left-hand side of the composition , drawing back a curtain ) in one of the earliest sketches , carries a skull , and Picasso identified him as a medical student . |
| 24 | It is in accordance with such optimism that Euripides should have turned the suffering hero of earlier tragedy into a dialectician and the transcendental justice of Aeschylus into the " poetic justice " dispensed by the deus ex machina who appears at the end of so many of his plays . |
| 25 | At the other end of the scale are Stephanus Heidacker and Peter Chevalier , whose paintings are based on a revision of classicism , and the Frenchman Philippe Cognée who aims at the breaking down of figurative painting . |
| 26 | I detest Alvaro Delgado-Gal , who advocates the return of the painting to France , believing that ‘ the glorious dead should be left in the graveyard where they chose to rest ’ ; Juan Pedro Aparicio , who suggests carrying ‘ Guernica ’ in procession all around Spain in a high speed train ; the old anarchist Carlos Semprón Maura , who protests at the Reina Sofía 's injection of morphine into ‘ Guernica ’ to prolong its deep coma ; Joan Barril , for whom the dilemma posed by moving ‘ Guernica ’ from the shrine of the Buen Retiro to an apartment with freezer in the ‘ Sofidou ’ could be resolved simply by sending it to Sarajevo , Bangkok or Lima , places where its political message would be more relevant . |
| 27 | This often provokes a negative reaction from the other person who bridles at the explicit disagreement and therefore fails to listen to the reasons — indeed , is highly likely to interrupt the reasons rather than hear them out . |
| 28 | This will be disappointing for a reader who expects at the least some evaluation of the shows . |
| 29 | Richard Vaisey is a mild , well-mannered , old-fashioned type who lectures at the London Institute of Slavonic Studies and is a respected Russian scholar . |
| 30 | Producer-director Arne Glimcher had tapped him for the role after catching his performance in Pedro Almodóvar 's Matador , in which he plays a melancholic bullfighter wannabe who faints at the sight of blood and gets dizzy watching clouds . |