Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I welcome Neeme Jarvi 's interpretation of Mahler 's Fourth Symphony with the Royal Scottish Orchestra because it is the work of a conductor who has looked closely at the score and not been afraid to give full personal rein to what he found there . |
| 2 | A reconstruction of the concert formed a centrepiece of Manchester 's Festival of Expressionism , which has looked again at the German and Austrian blossoming that anticipated the dominant issues of 20th-century culture . |
| 3 | An FEL which uses a low energy ( 6 MeV ) van de Graaff electrostatic accelerator has operated successfully at the University of California , Santa Barbara , since 1984 . |
| 4 | There were a few who would have asked the same question , looking at Joan Rush , senior project officer with the fund , a prime mover in the group which has beavered away at the subject to bring it into the mainstream of policy and practice . |
| 5 | The structure has suffered little at the hand of man , or from the lapse of time , so that without much imagination it is possible to picture it as the builders left it about the year 1410 . |
| 6 | It has done so at the expense of sharp cuts in living standards and in expenditure on its long-established system of social services and free education . |
| 7 | He stands looking straight at the judge as the clerk reads out his name and that of his co-defendant , Robert Lopez , who is charged with manslaughter and inflicting grievous bodily harm . |
| 8 | In particular , it promised to look again at the case of Canford Heath in Dorset , where a recent court judgement upheld the decision by Poole Borough Council to build houses on the heath in the face of vociferous opposition from conservation groups , led by the World Wide Fund for Nature [ see ED no . |
| 9 | Constance Turner , matron of the Teesside Leonard Cheshire Home at Marske Hall , has died suddenly at the age of 58 . |
| 10 | John Major may be Prime Minister , but Sir Robin Butler , head of the Home Civil Service and Cabinet Secretary , has spent longer at the heart of power . |
| 11 | Former Sunderland star Marco Gabbiadini has settled better at the Baseball Ground than at Crystal Palace . |
| 12 | When there is port bias on the line you will rarely need to start right at the pin end . |
| 13 | I think the real historical tragedy is that AIDS has emerged just at the moment that the gay community was reaching a sort of maturity and openness . |
| 14 | For mortality , the intensity of selection in a stable population ( r=0 ) remains constant during the pre-reproductive period because the consequences of death for reproductive success remain constant ; selection intensity starts to decline only at the time of first breeding . |
| 15 | She had a family of four , and for the past ten years or so she has worked voluntarily at the Citizen 's Advice Bureau . |
| 16 | But now , attending on the King 's mother , she might be expected to stay tonight at the Palace . |
| 17 | THE POSTMAN never has to ring twice at the home of Patricia Parsons he is her most welcome visitor of the day . |
| 18 | GA Life 's with-profit past performance results compare very favourably to other companies in the UK market , while its free asset ratio has strengthened further at the end of 1992 . |
| 19 | It was too cold to stand and stare , and the wind kept buffeting us dangerously each time we tried to gaze across at the Ocean . |
| 20 | Paul asked the Corinthians , and the unanswerable logic of his question was designed to cut decisively at the root of ingratitude . |
| 21 | PATRIOT GAMES Latest post- Die Hard middle-aged action pic stars Harrison Ford as heroic executive Jack Ryan , a retired CIA man who starts working late at the office again to rescue his family from vengeful IRA man Sean Bean . |
| 22 | Tap ENTER only at the end of the last line . |
| 23 | To tradition and instinct , de Castelnau could add personal reasons for wanting to hit hard at the enemy ; three of his sons had already laid down their lives for France . |
| 24 | The two friends were last seen sunbathing together at the weekend . |
| 25 | He 'd applauded politely at the end of every number , but seemed totally unmoved , and somehow that had made her try all the harder , as though it were imperative that she reach him . |
| 26 | As they passed Guido and Ronni 's table , just for an instant Guido turned and seemed to smile directly at the girl . |
| 27 | A sharp , cruel memory had slid into her mind : her father , calming her when she 'd cried hysterically at the death of her new kitten . |
| 28 | And who had told him that she 'd stayed late at the office ? |
| 29 | Saturday was the one day on which he seemed to arrive early at the Herald office , but she doubted whether he would have got there yet . |
| 30 | No one else seemed to think so at the time . |