Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [noun sg] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernard , if we have any time to spare , better to stand and gaze at the name of the very street we live in , ‘ Mafeking ’ , and contemplate its significance . |
| 2 | Most people are keen for their children to be educated but despair at the kind of education they receive . |
| 3 | The main effect of wind is probably to be seen in undercutting and fluting at the base of upstanding rock masses , while such things as wooden telegraph poles and stone monuments may be undercut at the base and even worn through . |
| 4 | On that occasion , although one of them only was present , both counsel and solicitor were in court acting on their behalf , and I find it very difficult to accept that neither counsel nor solicitor at the conclusion of the hearing explained in the clearest terms to the second appellant precisely what it was that she and the first appellant were to be restrained from doing . |
| 5 | Kenneth is an atheist and Uncle Hamish , who has a reflecting telescope cast and ground at the glass works but never uses his private observatory , espouses a brand of condemnationist Christianity that replaces caritas with anathemata . |
| 6 | An odd memorial , a seat where people could rest and gaze at the castle ; perhaps S. G. Sutherland had spent much of his life in the gardens watching others getting on with theirs . |
| 7 | Similarly , where bending takes place , the restrictions on rotation of one chain link relative to its neighbour imply a coupling of bending and rotation at the level of the chain link . |
| 8 | Now sit , quite naturally , just as you would , alone on a beach in order to dream and gaze at the sea . ’ |
| 9 | Of course , there was mourning and grief at the abbe 's sudden death and his funeral caused disruption in the normal tedium of our lives . ’ |
| 10 | The bids confirmed that they were best to hang on to them and they will now be refurbished and pole-mounted at the entrance to the Museum . |