Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were the sorts of contacts that you have when you 're signing on at the Employment Benefits Office , when you 're going to a job interview erm and often these are very negative because the experience of signing on is n't a very pleasant experience at all ; most job interviews , unfortunately , end with a rejection erm so a lot of these non-routine contacts were quite negatives ones for people . |
| 2 | Karelius peered out at the theatre lamps glowing through the mist . |
| 3 | Much of the work including that carried out at the retraining facilities at Ellesemere Port is aimed at helping younger servicemen and women . |
| 4 | A study carried out at the Army Personnel Research Establishment ( APRE ) in Farnborough simulated wartime conditions for ten soldiers , who were required to defend a position during a tactical exercise lasting ten days . |
| 5 | Building on the work of the Japan Industrial Studies Programme already carried out at the Policy Studies Institute , the aim is to find out how Japanese managers , especially those in companies that are competing in the British market , see marketing and how they succeed in putting their strategies into effect . |
| 6 | But you can see the police parked up at the trouble spots . |
| 7 | Carrie was eager to tell her mother how business was picking up at the dining rooms but she was interrupted by footsteps on the stairs outside and a key being inserted in the lock . |
| 8 | Lewis stood on the front lawn , looking up at the bedroom windows . |
| 9 | ‘ I wonder where Barbs is ? ’ said Tim , stopping and looking up at the bedroom windows . |
| 10 | If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful . |
| 11 | But there was qualifying joy for other athletes who had missed out at the county championships , including Middlesbrough and Cleveland Harrier Stephen Helm . |
| 12 | Vic inquires , looking round at the kitchen surfaces already cluttered with numerous electrical appliances — toaster , kettle , coffee-maker , food-processor , electric wok , chip-fryer , waffle-maker … |
| 13 | I was born in Wapping in the year nineteen hundred and six , my father was a docker , one of my earliest recollections is of the dock strike of nineteen hundred and eleven , in which I played a part lining up at the soup kitchens to get soup for the family . |
| 14 | BNFL chiefs got an injunction against U2 threatening them with arrest if they turned up at the plant gates . |
| 15 | He was wearing a duffel coat , done up on the wrong toggles , with copies of evening papers turned back at the job columns sticking out of both pockets . |
| 16 | Doyle moved further up the road , and glanced up at the bedroom windows . |
| 17 | Gullibility and greed are charges that can just as well be flung back at the life companies . |
| 18 | The wind was blowing hard at the Highlanders ' faces , according to the literature given out at the Culloden Visitors ' Centre , and the two armies were in position at one o'clock , approximately four to five hundred yards apart . |
| 19 | She slowed down at the traffic lights by Sloane Street . |
| 20 | I 'd just finished filling the hip flask when it went dark in the bar as a truck pulled up at the traffic lights outside . |
| 21 | DEFENDING Tory Michael Fallon hit back at the poll results last night saying there was ‘ no way at all that Labour are 12 points ahead in Darlington ’ . |
| 22 | But , as she gazed around at the chintz sofas , and the French-provincial-style velvet-upholstered dining-room chairs — which she could see through a far open doorway — it occurred to Laura that maybe it was the only way to preserve such sumptuous furnishings on a shoreline likely to be damp and salty in the latter part of the year , while , outside the large windows , she could see automatic sprinklers drenching the fine green lawns that ran down to the beach . |
| 23 | Sometimes men in mackintoshes stared in at the bookshop windows as if building up to a flash . |
| 24 | He looked down at the jogger casuals she wore , then nodded approval . |
| 25 | Pulling herself away , she looked over at the filing cabinets against one wall . |
| 26 | And although hundreds of young hopefuls turn up at the Storm offices in London each year most of Sarah 's ‘ finds ’ are chance encounters . |
| 27 | ‘ The point is , ’ said Dyson , thumping the car down into second to slow up at the traffic lights , ‘ a journalist ought to be specializing by the time he 's forty . |
| 28 | Léonie sprawled lower on the muddy carpet and looked up at the beech trees spread against the sky . |
| 29 | I looked back at the school buildings . |
| 30 | We looked back at the tournament leaders on the seventeenth . |