Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A twenty-five-foot wave flung itself at the canoe from an unexpected angle and before the crew could turn to absorb the blow , the Hokule'a rose up the face of the wave at forty-five degrees , and was capsized as it flew off the peak . |
| 2 | I have today won a concession from the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , in as much as he is going to give a delegation from the Southampton and district licensed victuallers an opportunity to see him at the Department to talk over some of these matters . |
| 3 | Erm so in in broad terms the master plan is is unchanged in concept but we think improved in detail the is the other thing at each end erm represents on the left hand side er , what is currently Honey Hill I believe the name may be changed in due course erm and those behind me here are the houses on the Fern Hill side and then , although some of you will have difficulty seeing it at the moment , at the bottom there are detailed drawings showing the internal arrangement of the houses and flats and , and detailed drawings of the elevations with dimensions , so one can have a have a bit of a feel for the the sort of space standards that we 've aimed at , but there are in fact , furniture plans shown on the drawings . |
| 4 | It accuses " particular producer groups " of " manipulating domestic environmental policies to benefit themselves at the expense of both the rest of the economy and ultimately even the environment " . |
| 5 | Mr Trelawney met us at the cave . |
| 6 | Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room . |
| 7 | I was still more surprised when some of their parents arrived in motor cars to see them at the weekend |
| 8 | It was a great pleasure to meet you at the Conference in Lisbon and to talk about your proposal for an introduction to CALL . |
| 9 | It was a pleasure to meet you at the Scottish Taxi Federation exhibition at Riccarton last week . |
| 10 | Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time . |
| 11 | The civil rights marches created an opportunity for Ian Paisley to put himself at the head of plebeian Protestant resistance to the civil rights movement . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | Depart London Heathrow for Pisa , where your hire car awaits you at the airport . |
| 14 | What sublime emotion inspires you at the moment of the assault ? |
| 15 | He was awakened just before noon by the Master of Novices who announced that a message had come from John Benstede asking for Corbett to present himself at the castle immediately . |
| 16 | In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region . |
| 17 | In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region . |
| 18 | Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke . |
| 19 | Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke . |
| 20 | But dear oh dear , headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with the world 's oldest joke . |
| 21 | Wood ladders greeted us at the most difficult places across the stream . |
| 22 | Theories of personal development , or of the historical and sociological development of humanity , which ignore it or dispense with it , make psychoanalytic theory less advanced than it was when Freud left it at the end of his life . |
| 23 | This is not exactly a character that springs to mind watching her at the Queen Vic jumping into the sack with her husband 's brother . |
| 24 | Up to a certain size , that is to say the size attained by the rats at a few weeks old , she caught and ate them , and , with a sure instinct for authority , brought in their tails to lay them at the feet of Martha . |
| 25 | Corbett left them at The Bull , its narrow windows draped with black crepe in mourning for the landlord whose coffin now stood outside the main door , perched rather crazily on its wooden trestles . |
| 26 | The president , meanwhile , stood high in the public opinion polls after the attempt to assassinate him at the end of March . |
| 27 | Fear gripped her at the demoniacal glint in his dark eyes . |
| 28 | The umpires check it at the end of every over . |
| 29 | Last Wednesday we invited the 4 British students studying at the University to visit us at the hotel for dinner . |
| 30 | In winter the chestnut-seller installed himself at the edge of the market . |