Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 The Act provided for a route commencing at the top of Anerley Hill , descending past Crystal Palace ( Low Level ) Station to Thicket Road , a turning on the left , which led through to the top end of Beckenham Road , Penge .
2 A case heard at the Essex Forest Eyre in 1277 illustrates the conflict between municipal privileges and Forest jurisdictions .
3 I wander round the park a bit looking at the trees and stuff .
4 This was a liberal middle-class reformist cop-out guaranteed to give the right women a step up in the power stakes as well as provide appeasement for male consciences which were getting a bit ragged at the edges from the constant battering of Irish feminists .
5 At first they were very calm and at the end , at the end there was a big panic that they was , they were all talking over each other , there was no control , you know , it was a bit rushed at the end , but , that was n't because it was bad planning , it was just they were panicked at the end .
6 Crew all a bit over-excited at the moment — if I hear another joke about ‘ I was going Caracas back there ’ I think I 'll strangle someone .
7 I was just a bit stoned at the time and it all poured out … .
8 He was angry , but a bit pleased at the same time .
9 We 're walking back from the shops — me and Marie — and we stop for a bit to look at the lights in the electric shop .
10 There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree .
11 But he was a bit flummoxed at the reality of Nuadu , because nobody had ever told him how to address a bastard of the Ireland 's Royal House .
12 ‘ It was a bit harrowing at the train station this morning , ’ he admitted yesterday .
13 In a referendum held at the same time as the elections , 78 per cent of voters supported a new Constitution which provided for a directly elected President to appoint a Prime Minister who would in turn appoint a Cabinet , with all appointments requiring parliamentary approval .
14 The ad shows a crook gazing at the busty , mini-skirted girls and asks : ‘ Who 's giving your bag the eye ? ’
15 She skirted its edge and at last spotted a possible entry , finding a stick to whack at the jagged branches of an old dogrose .
16 The application , made under the name of Deputy Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs , Kim Yong Nam , followed a decision announced at the end of May that North Korea was dropping its previous insistence on a single Korean seat at the UN .
17 I would prefer , at the risk of offending the purists , to take a robust attitude , and simply say that it is a decision made at a particular time in response to a particular situation against a particular political background , and is poor material on which to build any general proposition .
18 The new title ‘ Officer Board ’ , replacing ‘ Consultative and Advisory Council ’ was a decision made at the Special Delegate Meeting in March .
19 Environmental groups criticized a decision made at an ITTC meeting in Yokohama , Japan , in November 1990 to approve the continued logging of important forests in Malaysia and the Amazon basin [ for November 1989 meeting see p. 37054 ] .
20 A decision taken at an emergency session of the Arab League Council , meeting in the Egyptian capital , Cairo , on Sept. 10 , to transfer the bulk of organization 's departments and affiliated apparatus from Tunis to Cairo by Oct. 31 , provoked a sharp reaction from some members countries not in attendance .
21 A confidential US Defence Department report had concluded that China 's sale of missiles to Saudi Arabia [ see pp. 36254 ; 36312 ] had been the result of a decision taken at the highest level of government to confront the USA in the Middle East .
22 The ground radio had reports of a gang shooting at the corner of La Brea and Rodeo , and Provenzano dipped the chopper to the west and flew at 130 mph to reach the site .
23 Fire fighters from Stockton put out a fire in a potting shed at a house in Bishopton Road , Stockton .
24 One Soviet journal questioned why people ‘ in certain Atlantic capitals … want to fasten the word ’ neutrality ’ to Afghanistan 's non-aligned policy' and concluded that ‘ the ‘ neutralisation ’ label conceals a course aimed at the elimination not only of the government now in power but also of the very system established by the April [ 1978 ] revolution ’ .
25 2 years on , Sean Gooch is serving a 5-year jail term for causing death by reckless driving , a sentence upheld at the Appeal Court last week .
26 TOP industrialists from the United States travelled to Snowdonia to hold a board meeting at the site of their latest acquisition Austin Taylor Communications Ltd at Bethesda .
27 For this reason , and realising it would need to be a writer based at the BBC with whom he could work closely , David Whitaker , on Donald Wilson 's recommendation , selected Anthony Coburn .
28 Then , for a trajectory starting at a point on the side of B , providing and z are small ( within D or D " , say ) , we can write for the point at which this trajectory next strikes the top face of B. Here a and b are constants ( which may depend on r ) and A is a 2 X 2 matrix .
29 This interpretation has proved to be compatible with other results , including the finding that a click located near the end of a clause tends to elicit longer reaction times than a click located at the beginning of a clause ( Abrams and Bever , 1969 ) .
30 Some women wore a cloak fastened at the shoulder or breast , and some gathered clothing in at the waist with a girdle , usually secured with a buckle .
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