Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became friendly at the Royal College with Ted Dicks who , owing to his liveliness and ability to play the piano ( he took over at the Colony Room when Mike Mackenzie left ) soon found himself in charge of student entertainments . |
| 2 | Although it has been telling the world how successfully it has recovered , Unisys Corp made clear at the annual meeting last week just how parlous the company 's condition remains . |
| 3 | Somebody was telling me the Rocky was on R5 the other week & said that when he was with Arsenal & they won the league at Liverpool in the last few minutes , Arsenal were 13 ( ? ) points clear at the new year but still had to come from behind to overtake Liverpool ! ! ! |
| 4 | He also described minute-taking at the final meeting as unfair . |
| 5 | There seemed a strange lack of conviction about the Ipswich display and three minutes before the interval there was another scare when Hendrie crossed from the right but Wilkinson headed wide at the far post . |
| 6 | He headed wide at the far post and then forced Reece to push his angled shot round a post . |
| 7 | Dropped dead at the Royal Norfolk show last month . |
| 8 | Nicola who was one of 6 children , was last seen alive at the Crumpled Horn pub at Eldene in Swindon . |
| 9 | This is a likely problem after holidays or long weekends ; you do not feel tired at the new bedtime but do feel tired when it is time to get up . |
| 10 | Though the commission could buy by agreement it had to have effective powers of compulsory purchase if it was ‘ to ensure that the right land is made available at the right time ’ . |
| 11 | The accompanying promo video for ‘ Bruise Violet ’ was shot live at the legendary CBGB 's club in New York City . |
| 12 | And despite Kenny Dalglish 's spending spree , Moran , 36 , is still going strong at the sharp end of the Premier League . |
| 13 | Some club members say that problems have arisen because power at Rugby has been restricted to a small executive committee , and major constitutional changes at the club now seem likely at the annual meeting in June . |
| 14 | While not representing a complete list of provisions these sections map out the range of professional social work services which should become available at the local level to deal comprehensively with difficulties that might arise in the life of a young person . |
| 15 | Harare Dread is due to play live at the Grand Hotel ballroom on April 17 . |
| 16 | The visitors bounced back with Mitchell heading wide at the far post and Cormac O'Donnell bursting into the box where Mark Donnelly 's tackle ended the danger in circumstances that might have brought a spot kick . |
| 17 | It used to amaze me that we treat criminals in a way which is guaranteed to perpetuate their self-image as a ‘ criminal ’ and reinforce negative beliefs about self and society , and then seem surprised at the high rate of recidivism . |
| 18 | For example , if continued family contact is in the child 's best interest , social workers should make sure at the matching stage that the proposed new parents really believe so too . |
| 19 | But Brewer has an uncanny knack of getting injured at the wrong time and so hooker Sean Fitzpatrick will be in charge for the first time . |
| 20 | Also in need of a result are Hereford United … they 're bottom of the third division and same story as swindon … nothing 's going right … they need a change of luck soon before they get stranded at the wrong end of the table … |
| 21 | But his mother became angry at the new psychiatrist 's opinion . |
| 22 | When the security forces mounted check points at every key road into Belfast , commuters soon became angry at the lengthy delays , and the cost was enormous . |
| 23 | After speaking in Strasbourg as president of the Council of Europe , Mr Hurd addressed the council in a national capacity , and said : ‘ I remain concerned at the continuing failure of the Iranian authorities to repudiate the incitement to murder of the British subject , Mr Salman Rushdie , and the bounty offered in that respect by all Iranian organisations . |
| 24 | He said he got angry at the absolute resistance to any kind of moderate reform and at the dismissive way some of them spoke about poor old Trueman . |
| 25 | First , the crossed auditory pathways inhibit the uncrossed pathways such that stimuli presented to the right ear arrive intact at the left hemisphere and stimuli presented to the left ear arrive at the right hemisphere . |
| 26 | The man , from Harlesden , north London , was found guilty at the Old Bailey of eight specimen charges of rape . |
| 27 | A SALES manager was found guilty at the Old Bailey of drugging his former girlfriend , imprisoning her in a hotel room , and twice raping her . |
| 28 | It seems appropriate at the present time , therefore , that the suspicion of PVI , particularly in patients with decompensated liver disease as indicated by the presence of an appreciably reduced portal blood flow , needs to be confirmed by conventional arterial portography . |
| 29 | He stopped then , staring perplexed at the empty bed . |
| 30 | Lin Foh had opened his letter and stopped , staring perplexed at the blank sheet of paper that was inside it . |