Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] [adj] [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A loud banging at the front door stopped both of them in their tracks . |
| 2 | Schizophrenic Clive Wells was appearing at the Old Bailey accused of killing a 63-year-old man when he gave specialist nurses the slip . |
| 3 | While attempting to give financial autonomy to schools the government has at the same time failed to help the market — that is , parents and pupils — to decide what subjects should be studied . |
| 4 | It has in the past happened that a client has been advised by the agent to amend an order , has entirely agreed with that advice , but has at the same time pointed out that his authority does not extend to giving a final decision , and this can be awkward . |
| 5 | Optimism over trading at the interim stage had proved unfounded , the group said yesterday . |
| 6 | The pros and cons of mink keeping on island groups such as Orkney and Shetland were fully presented at a public enquiry held over a similar case on Westray in Orkney in 1978 . |
| 7 | The appeal hearing opened on May 15 , 1990 , with Demjanjuk 's lawyers arguing that he had been the victim of mistaken identity and that evidence presented at the original trial had been forged . |
| 8 | Maguire 's tee shot at the 161-yard second clattered into the trees behind the green . |
| 9 | His security could still be threatened at the one point left vulnerable . |
| 10 | Mr Patten , speaking at a fringe meeting at the tory conference made the remarks about Professor Tim Brighouse who ran schools in Oxfordshire for eleven years and now heads Birmingham 's education department . |
| 11 | It is important to note that if the pledge that the Labour party made at the last election had been carried through , dramatically less money would have been spent on health , for the reasons that my hon. Friend gave . |
| 12 | Several of the issues just outlined will be given special attention in our last chapter , which will look at the wider horizons opened up for Protestant theology by the ecumenical movement , the encounter with other faiths , and the development of science . |
| 13 | Can we then look at the reduced engine thrust erm this presumably would have a significant impact on combat performance , er why is there any change in the security situation that would warrant such a a relaxation ? |
| 14 | Microwave background detectors overlap in wavelength with millimetre waves and radio , but are designed specifically to look at the all-sky background emitted by gas soon after the big bang . |
| 15 | A young motorist who crashed into another car while reversing at a fast speed escaped a driving ban at Whitby magistrates yesterday . |
| 16 | At first people thought that particles of light traveled infinitely fast , so gravity would not have been able to slow them down , but the discovery by Roemer that light travels at a finite speed meant that gravity might have an important effect . |
| 17 | but Hans Segers at the other end had a busier first half as United piled forward … |
| 18 | Incidentally , one of the curious phenomena of my library is that when you take out Bleddyn 's autobiography from the shelves it automatically opens at the very page mentioned above . |
| 19 | A woman staying at a local hotel returned to find her room ransacked and another motorist had her car broken into . |
| 20 | Yes Chairman , the figure of a hundred thousand as we said did , was erm a figure quoted on by account chief 's executive of the purchasing consortium erm , that was spoken at a public meeting held here in Harlow last week erm the issue of the the transport around the area erm , was accepted by the the chief executive of the health authority erm or of that of the consortium erm , and the and the view that it would be much more difficult with the lack of public transport to get to the more relo , remote areas of Essex the the reason that the erm reduced use of London was put into this report was also erm , clearly stated by the chief executive , i it 's their clear aim to provide more of , to purchase more of the services from within the north Essex area , and that was stated in a major part of the conta , of of their erm achievements and that automatically means a reduced amount of choice for those people who would otherwise for , to London . |
| 21 | Interestingly , no clear footprint was observed at the RARE sequence found immediately upstream of footprint I ( shown in italics in Fig. 2B ) despite the fact that this sequence is able to bind retinoic acid receptors efficiently in vitro and that undifferentiated F9 cells contain retinoic acid receptors . |
| 22 | The meal was organised around the char which had been caught that afternoon , and Hope was touched at the extravagant praise lobbed his way for the provision of the excellent fish . |
| 23 | For example , the assumption of a single non-standard to standard continuum with RP located at the standard extremity led Macaulay in Glasgow to exclude from his analysis of the ( a ) variable items which belonged to the /a/ class of RP . |
| 24 | Madge looked at the four children clustered in the hallway . |
| 25 | Dinner is served at a candlelit table decked out in fine linen and porcelain . |
| 26 | Other systems also being tried at the same time included dehydration and injection techniques , the latter to be perfected by a surgeon called Ruysch ( 1665–1717 ) , Professor of Anatomy at Amsterdam . |
| 27 | It would be — if the deterioration in credit quality gnawing at the financial system had not reached this market too . |
| 28 | A man sitting at a three-legged stool emptied a dustpan full of rubbish over his suit and then removed it with a battery powered mini vacuum cleaner . |
| 29 | Some of the people sitting at the big table did not even raise their eyes . |
| 30 | Waqar at the other end continued to fling down roundarm yorkers , until tea , when both sides drew breath . |