Example sentences of "[pron] and at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five years later the Meeting considered another problem and in its wisdom inverted the common law assumption that an accusation was not a conviction : ‘ The Case of Mr. H. R — — — was brought before the Church , who had misconducted himself and at the recommendation of the Pastor and Officers was suspended until his guilt was proved . ’ |
| 2 | I was flicking the coal dust from my trousers and trying to look unconcerned when I saw Wesley Binks doubled up with mirth , pointing triumphantly at me and at the hole over the cellar . |
| 3 | He landed and stared down at me and at the blood of my broken wing , his terrible beak opening just a little with the pleasure of what he saw ; while I hung there , trying to watch all three at once and knowing that one of them would attack suddenly and then be gone as another came in from a different direction . |
| 4 | ‘ No , you said I 'd handle them and at the time I agreed but now I 've changed my mind , ’ Ruth told him firmly . |
| 5 | On 7 April it was reported that , " last Saturday a body of sailors , to the number of 400 to 500 assembled at North Shields … and proceeded from thence to Sunderland with colours flying before them and at the cross there read a paper setting forth their grievances and a demand for immediate redress . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's a lot of bad vibes about — both you and at the club . ’ |
| 7 | Given the response of large sections of the Arab community to the US presence in the Gulf , commentators emphasized that Assad 's strategy was a dangerous one and at the end of August Western press reports stated that large numbers of soldiers had been dispatched to Syria 's eastern frontier with Iraq to put down pro-Iraqi demonstrations and riots . |
| 8 | Ryker loomed at her through the flames and she hurled the water both at him and at the fire . |
| 9 | Then as the evening goes on they begin to understand him and at the end they genuinely feel sorry and care for him . |
| 10 | She lived in a bungalow provided for her and at the time of Mr Farrington 's death was receiving £2.50 per week for her services and paying £1.50 a week inclusive of rates for the bungalow . |
| 11 | He swore at it and at the siren still wailing as frantically as ever outside . |
| 12 | Each one had a spiral staircase the length of a lighthouse leading up to it and at the top lived a teacher . |
| 13 | no he 'd , he 's got to do as he 's told and he knows that and that 's it and at the moment she says we do n't know so we do n't know , but we know that sooner or later it 's |
| 14 | So if you go back to the sort of where we gave it five or six headings yeah or three to six headings you should be aiming say well I 'll input a bit of information on that side of it and at the end of that little section I 'll build in some practice in participation and the participation can be any of those ones you 've put in there on that list you gave us early on er practical allocations |
| 15 | right , and I look over to Roger and Roger 's flicking through his notes like this and as you , you were peeping through and he 's trying to find out what , what he 's talking about , they 're not looking at each other and anyway at the end of it , er we went through it and at the end of it he turned round and went how was it , what were you playing at , what was that spiel that you gave it 's in my brief , that 's one of my objections |
| 16 | At first the family gather round it and at the end as the actors steal away into the darkness it is the piano which makes the final sounds . |
| 17 | At first the family gathers round it and at the end , as the actors steal away into the darkness , it is the piano which makes the final sounds . |
| 18 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 19 | and they were say and then he and at the end they all sang , there was Joe Brown , Lonnie Donegan , Bert Weedon , all the old nineteen fifties stars , Hank Marvin and all that and they were all singing and he sang that song with bloody in it |
| 20 | ‘ The simple answer , I suppose , is that I take a look at myself and at the world around me . ’ |
| 21 | Now I want to allow a bit more time for questions so I 'll just end if I may with a funny story which , did n't happen to me , it happened to a colleague of mine , erm a young lady , who went to give er a talk like this to group of adults like yourselves and at the end of the meeting the treasurer went up to her and said do we owe you any fee or expenses ? |
| 22 | And he came running out behind us and at the back this massive puzzle and he slipped over in the mud sli slide straight forward and into the . |