Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] at the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos you will throw them at the back of the box instead of lining them up . |
| 2 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
| 3 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 4 | Toucans collect them one at a time , throwing them up in the air and deftly catching them at the back of their throats . |
| 5 | The wedding , planned for November … ’ ) she had learned that she was the goddaughter of Lady Bartlett ( that mother of sons … ) and had joined them at the end of July . |
| 6 | The man was going to meet me at the bottom of Ber Street . |
| 7 | Cameramen never bother me at the top of my swing . |
| 8 | ‘ We found them at the home of Nigel , your predecessor . |
| 9 | Secondly , as the weights are derived from analysis of individuals there is a serious problem of applying them at the level of wards or districts where the information is readily available only in aggregate . |
| 10 | ‘ United have emerged as favourites now and that suits me fine , as long as we are up there challenging them at the end of the season . |
| 11 | She thinks the microwave ‘ has changed our perceptions of time , much as telephones changed them at the turn of the century ’ . |
| 12 | Then would having a good head for numbers be the sort of thing that would individuate them at the level of their soul ? |
| 13 | As Christian communicators in Asia we place ourselves at the service of those challenges , well aware that we need to conscientise people as much as we need to be conscientised . |
| 14 | Although Phil had been slightly reserved in his manner towards her ( Nancy ) , she knew that that was his way and she was enjoying the company of that wiry , small-boned , gently spoken citizen from Sacramento who almost invariably found himself at the back of every queue that ever formed itself . |
| 15 | Ramsay , who found himself at the head of nearly a thousand men of Lothian , largely Lindsays — whose chief , Sir David , Keeper of Edinburgh Castle , was sick and so not present — Setons , Hepburns , Sinclairs , Keiths and other lesser clans , as well as his own men , offered to ride fast for the Borderland , to join Scott of Rankilburn whom Douglas had alerted to watch Dunbar ; together they would make up a force large enough to give that Earl pause . |
| 16 | A classic example was when he found himself at the centre of media and national attention after taking over the chairmanship of the troubled Westland Group in June 1985 . |
| 17 | For a further four years , Sukarno found himself at the centre of a political maelstrom of which the outcome seemed obscure . |
| 18 | The next he had been jerked fully awake and found himself at the centre of a circle of strange , hostile creatures , the like of which he had never seen in his life . |
| 19 | He turned the corner , and found himself at the front of the house , which had a mountingblock , well chalked . |
| 20 | To reach Ariel and her mother , he had to cross the stream ; he did so , night after night , using stepping stones over unearthly flashes of phosphorescence in the water , and stepping up on to the further bank , still unwilling , still keeping his mind on Rebecca and the love he had sworn to her , until once more he found himself at the entrance of Ariel 's cabin , once more gave orders to the guard to leave him , and entered to speak to her , disturbing her rest , though she had come to expect his call ; then after their unsatisfactory exchanges , he would lift the fronds at the entrance and leave again , only to succumb once more , and toss himself off in rage and helplessness , before he skulked back to Belmont . |
| 21 | As time and cost constraints make extensive physical experimentation increasingly difficult to justify , the transport sector has installed itself at the forefront of the model revolution . |
| 22 | But when the Conservatives came to power in 1979 , local government found itself at the centre of a much wider conflict regarding the role of the state as a whole , and the position of local government began to be ‘ reappraised ’ . |
| 23 | We must now return to the general situation in which 5 Corps found itself at the end of 15 May . |
| 24 | ‘ I never dreamed I 'd come back to find you at the head of a company . |
| 25 | Instead of upholding one at the expense of the other , Bachelard offers the possibility of a deconstructive history which would reinscribe that which had been excluded ; this could also enable a differential history of science and ideology , accounting for the perpetuation of ideology after the production of science . |
| 26 | Outside she found herself at the top of a fire escape . |
| 27 | She was able to get her bearings this way and soon found herself at the back of the house . |
| 28 | His poor mother lacked her husband 's capacity for discipline , and found herself at the mercy of her headstrong son . |
| 29 | Throughout much of 1948 Minton had been working up oils based on his drawings and watercolours of Corsica for an exhibition at the Lefevre , initially promised him at the end of that year but not mounted until February 1949 . |
| 30 | Cecil has not won the 2,000 Guineas since Wollow scored in 1976 , but Pursuit of Love is a genuine contender and it will take a convincing performance from either Forest Tiger or Dr Devious in today 's Craven Stakes to displace him at the head of Ladbrokes ' market — and other firms could well follow suit . |