Example sentences of "at the [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , at the shows themselves , more than ever this year people seemed to be running around confused , cynical as ever , while the future of the British catwalks was looking ever more shaky . |
| 2 | The Halifax still chafes , occasionally , at the restrictions which the 1986 Building Societies Act imposes on the mutually-owned thrifts . |
| 3 | Herodotus ' History can be seen as a sermon on the text that Spartans and Persians , even in their great period of conflict , gradually came to value each other 's qualities:2 at first ( Hdt. i.153 ) Cyrus the Great scoffs at the Greeks who come together in a market-place to cheat each other ; by the end , the exiled Spartan king Demaratos is shown ( vii.104 ) lecturing a clearly impressed Xerxes on the subject of Spartan deference to law . |
| 4 | Look at the boxes he got . |
| 5 | Artai could not have declared any public intent to marry Jehana , Alexei realised , or it would have been the talk of Kinsai. probably there were rumours — nothing was ever entirely a secret at court — and he glanced again at the women who clustered at the other end of the pool . |
| 6 | erm er portraits of , er men you have to take i it that erm we could argue Charlotte Bronte was very critical of the men she knew and , the men she thought she might know , and did n't erm , you have to look at the women who feed into the making of them |
| 7 | We watched him creating that knitting , talking about colour and going round and looking at the things which had inspired his imagination in his designing . |
| 8 | and of the country at the things which we heard during that trial . |
| 9 | But your Major alas … ’ ‘ … while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen : for the things which are seen are temporal ; but the things which are not seen are eternal … ’ |
| 10 | But your Major alas … ’ ‘ … while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen : for the things which are seen are temporal ; but the things which are not seen are eternal … ’ |
| 11 | Well er , that 's alright , I , I would n't , I look at the things which we do very well , erm , and a lot of people say |
| 12 | ‘ Now the Civil servants are looking at the things we put forward before Christmas which they dismissed . |
| 13 | Nobody but himself knew what it had cost him to start riding with Nutty as a teacher , and to get to his present standard on the crazy little mare when he had been terrified out of his wits at the things she did . |
| 14 | Everything she had thought had been a lie and she looked carefully at the things she now possessed with new eyes . |
| 15 | ‘ He taught me never to look first at the things you want to buy . |
| 16 | ‘ When people laugh at the things I say on stage , they 're laughing with me , not at me , ’ she explained . |
| 17 | I would n't speak to him all the evening , or look at the things he 'd bought , even though I could see one of them was a picture-frame . |
| 18 | ‘ Look at the roses I was sent today , ’ said Sophia . |
| 19 | He walked to the small , single window and pushed it open , gazing up and outward into the night , at the friends he could never meet . |
| 20 | After the initial shock and disbelief , the Tysons grew angry — at the advisers who convinced them about Barlow Clowes , at the Midland bank manager who gave verbal assurances of its security , at the regulatory authorities responsible for the investment community and at the Department of Trade and Industry which allowed the company to trade . |
| 21 | At the summits there will be invigilators , primarily Venture Scouts , who will maintain a 24 hour vigil with lanterns lighting up the night sky . |
| 22 | He was sitting there with his head in his hands ; he did not rise when the train passed ; he made no movement ; he did not give a glance at the signs I made him ; and for a long time as the train was carrying me away , I watched his little motionless , grief-stricken figure , lost in the desert , an image of my own despair . |
| 23 | Erm , and to look at the stories which are of a different time but are still relevant to our time and place , they have a , have a message for us , even though they were set a hundred years ago , they 've still got something to say us , so I think that 's an area we need to explore . |
| 24 | at the nippers I 'll shit on your |
| 25 | Those who want to argue with his approach just have to look at the trophies he won . |
| 26 | Arghatun was shouting at the warriors who were grouped around the clearing , and twenty or so ran at once to one of the carts and pulled out a mass of folded fabric . |
| 27 | Joe looked at the clothes she was wearing , the clothes he 'd bought her . |
| 28 | This project looks at the records which could be used to assess the impact of unions on the shop floor of industry . |
| 29 | As McLeish had observed to a colleague at the ti me , he 'd have understood the whole performance if the solicitor in question had been going to marry either of them , but there had been no question of that , it was just obfuscation for its own sake . |
| 30 | Everyone around him had assumed that at the ti me of his wife 's death he must miss her very much and said what a wonderful person she was . |