Example sentences of "at [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stopped on the promenade at Cultra and looked out over the blackness of Belfast Lough , alive with twinkling lights . |
| 2 | I looked at Mum and thought if only she was as nice as she looked maybe all our lives would have been better . |
| 3 | I looked across at Mum and found she was looking at Mrs Danby with an expression I did not recognize . |
| 4 | He visited Edinburgh , saw what they were doing there , liked it and decided to see whether it could be done at Sussex and approached the university through the Bi-Medical Engineering Group , of which I 'm a member , and I was interested . |
| 5 | Robert Bevan , one of their number , had worked at Pont-Aven and had known Paul Gauguin , and Sickert , whose sympathy with France went deep , owned a house in Neuville , on the outskirts of Dieppe , which he lent for a time to the Gilmans . |
| 6 | Or visit the Olivier/SWET 91 award-winning play Dancing at Lughnasa and hear talk of Wild Woodbines ' . ’ |
| 7 | In October 1889 , the British Government became determined not to allow any threat to the British strategical supremacy in South Africa , and that led to the outbreak of another Boer War , which included some humiliating defeats in the initial stages and the two great sieges at Ladysmith and Mafeking which were finally relieved in 1900 . |
| 8 | Someone uncoupled that car at Cartier and rigged some way of pulling it out of the station into the darkness before releasing it . |
| 9 | Giles glanced at Sophie and laughed ruefully . |
| 10 | ‘ If we continued down this road here , we 'd still reach the Fire Court , ’ said Snodgrass , who was quite good at maps and found them interesting . |
| 11 | Unfortunately we have no vacancies at present nor do I anticipate any in the near future . |
| 12 | The chargé , Everett Drumright , countered by reminding Rhee that the ECA was spending more than 100 million dollars in Korea at present and had perhaps its largest staff in Korea . |
| 13 | That said , the working environment in OS/2 is different enough that I found myself trying to unlearn the way I work at present and trying to use the system the way IBM meant it to be used . |
| 14 | Hilary Rowland , Chief Executive of the Trust said : ‘ Most people would recognise that the building is under-used at present and costing us money . |
| 15 | ‘ We are still investigating them at present and have not ruled them out . ’ |
| 16 | The point that I made to the Committee is that if we wish to reduce the hours of the House or change the sitting times — that is still an open question — it is important that we consider how the time of the House is used at present and to make reductions pro rata . |
| 17 | He starts with the pioneering days at Brooklands and has taken care not to omit the Donington grands prix in 1937-38 where Germany 's Auto Unions and Mercedes were so dominant . |
| 18 | I have enough intelligence to go and look at graphs and look at charts and do my research and I see the turn that was made from 1979 to 1989 and I see the way things are in my country . |
| 19 | There , men frequently migrate to the towns , leaving their families behind either to be visited at week-ends or to join them in the town at a later date . |
| 20 | Lawrence has insisted he wants to stay and honour his contract at Middlesbrough and make them a force in the Premier division . |
| 21 | Both , however , have previously raced at Middlesbrough and Csillick in particular was impressive , when they toured here last season with the Hungarian national side . |
| 22 | Lawrence is settled at Middlesbrough and has been pleased with the progress of his first season . |
| 23 | Will the Secretary of State confirm that he has already decided to refuse the trust application from the Royal Scottish National hospital at Larbert and to suspend the applications from Foresterhill and Ayrshire South hospitals , designating them as shadow trusts , whatever that means ? |
| 24 | She glanced at Madeleine and added falteringly , ‘ You 're not the young lady from America Master Harry wrote about then , Miss Debrace ? ’ |
| 25 | Mr Herbert , the second son of Lord Carnarvon , was educated at Eton and stands 6ft 4in tall . |
| 26 | Please , try to look at it the way I have to — you must know that it 's an important matter because of Michel 's divorce ; if it were known , if it could be proved , that he is , ’ Flavia looked at Andrée and continued firmly , ‘ living with my mother , the divorce could still be stopped . |
| 27 | To the manager 's surprise the man freely confessed that he felt poor at supervising and did not like doing it anyway . |
| 28 | He hesitated for only a moment , then glanced briefly at Alexandra and said , ‘ I should be happy to . ’ |
| 29 | There 's no way we can even consider Ingleston just now , when we 're involved at Hermestone and re-looking at Tynecastle . |
| 30 | PUPILS of Bromborough Pool Primary School and other schoolchildren attended an educational exhibition at Catalyst , the museum of the chemical industry , at Widnes and learned how chemistry is applied to everyday life . |