Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 Seeing Joseph staring at the women , Paul walked over to him and put an arm around his shoulder .
2 Unfortunately the crossing in was poor and our best chances came when Strach , Sharp , or Mcallister ran at the defence ( good tackling denied Strachan a certain goal ) .
3 Where Lewis looked at the world around him , even when he was writing autobiography , Leavis looked ever more attentively at himself .
4 There , much to Dexter 's amazement , Blanche strode down some steps to the kitchen , where Beasley sat at a pine table nursing a glass of wine .
5 She feels it 's sad that Frankie died at a time when he was just becoming popular with a younger audience .
6 His expression was inscrutable , but his hands were clenched so tightly into fists that Meredith marvelled at the man 's ability to keep the muscles of his face so impassive .
7 Moreover , it 's surely no coincidence that PWI comes at a time when anti-trust allegations against Microsoft are reportedly still under investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission .
8 It is the more remarkable that Pound , no more than any one else for fifty years after Hardy died , pondered the Virgilian epigraph that Hardy put at the head of his ‘ Poems of 1912–13 ’ , originally in Satires of Circumstance , ( London , 1914 ) .
9 This unique video shows all the build up to the World Angling Championship in 1990 , the practice sessions , discussions , the work which ensures that England remain at the top of the world .
10 This was the very first painting that Artemesia completed at the age of 17 .
11 all that proved to me is , is that Helen the board , the examination board that Helen did at the college , she said it was a much , a much better exam to do than it was at
12 Although it is true to say that Lizzie felt at the start very much under her mother 's shadow and in any case was naturally of a rather shy disposition — she was coaxed into recording quite early on in her career ; indeed , her voice can be heard ( singing Far Over the Forth ) on the same 1953 School of Scottish Studies tape devoted to her just-discovered mother .
13 Magdy Yacoub was summoned , and decided the only way to save the man would be to boost his heart with part of a cardiac support system that Yacoub borrowed at an international congress last October .
14 There was one who told his wife , ‘ The reason I 'm late is that Harry died at the third hole , so we had to go all the way round the other fifteen holes on the course , dragging Harry . ’
15 I mutter something and start to clear the dishes , but she is not going to be brushed aside , so Darius crouches at the table with his chin on his hands , watching us like we 're Punch and Judy , and I admit that someone might come .
16 For it was in 1833 that Owen appeared at the London Co-operative Congress to advocate the creation of the Grand Moral Union of the Productive Classes .
17 In a review of ‘ Seven Americans ’ , a group show that Stieglitz organised at the Anderson Galleries in 1925 ( in which examples of O'Keeffe 's enlarged flower paintings were first seen ) , critic Margaret Breuning wrote :
18 The product sounds exactly like a sketch that Amstrad issued at the launch of the PDA , and which was described as a possible future direction .
19 He also interprets St Paul 's teaching to the Colossians ( 3:3 ) in these terms : His evocation of a silent darkness at the heart of which the soul is alive only in faith and expectant longing , combines the same sense of both end and beginning that Rolle creates at the end of his shorter Passion meditation when the process of penance linked with the stages of the Crucifixion concludes in the darkness of the entombment — a darkness which in the pattern of Incarnation is the prelude to dawn and Resurrection .
20 Whatever one may think of its application to the particular case , there can be little doubt that Banfield has at the very least described in an ideal form a society in which thrift , enterprise , trust and cooperation are impossible , and therefore one in which political and economic development along liberal democratic and capitalist lines are grossly inhibited .
21 Although Laing started at the bottom of the ladder , he admits that the fact he and his brother inherited control of the business early on in their careers helped them to climb the hierarchy rather swiftly .
22 It was argued that Britain stood at a historic point ; a new urban future was at hand .
23 What was equally extraordinary was that Baldwin jumped at the idea .
24 We went into Julia 's room , and Holmes looked at the windows carefully .
25 Meanwhile , the remaining males carried on displaying wildly — Fitz and Rousseau remaining at a distance , and only Kendo daring to charge right over the scrum — all to no avail .
26 She tried to look at the thing calmly and sensibly , tried not to be aware of Deana and Sarah whispering at a table only a few yards distant , but felt too hurt and shocked to be rational .
27 Anna and Sarah sat at the table , and the man stood and watched .
28 Evelyn and Dan sat at the breakfast bar .
29 A point of typographical interest is that the printers of broadside notices and ballads continued to use the old ‘ black letter ’ or Gothic founts of type long after they had been discarded in favour of the Roman letter for printed books ; so that many of them can take us back in spirit and atmosphere to the Gutenberg Bible and Caxton working at the Sign of the Red Pale in Westminster .
30 After two hours of driving Carson and Alison stopped at a motorway services area , a cut-rate chunk of space-age that straddled the carriageway .
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