Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A loud banging at the front door stopped both of them in their tracks . |
| 2 | A review by M.S.P. in the Cape Times ( 30 September 1944 ) of the University 's Junior Ballet appearing at the Little Theatre remarked on his ‘ debut in Cape Town ballet , and a very impressive one too ’ as Pierrot in St Valentine 's Night . |
| 3 | Citizens ' action groups protested at the environmental damage caused by NATO manoeuvres and , in August 1989 , the SPD called for an end to the special rights and privileges enjoyed by the allied forces . |
| 4 | Roman Catholic priests protested at the special treatment given to Anglicans who want to convert now that women are entering their ranks . |
| 5 | Slowly struggling up from the depths of deep unconsciousness , Laura flicked open her eyelids , only to shut them firmly again as she winced at the brilliant sunshine flooding in through the windows of the bedroom . |
| 6 | One o'clock was agreed as the deadline when Mrs Wijsmüller and another refugee worker , Gertrud van Tijn , were to meet at the American Hotel to decide on their next move . |
| 7 | Being a costly enterprise and having many uses to the modern state , research has at the same time come under increased scrutiny from the paymaster . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Finally the iron pin would be attached to the hinge fitting , pointed at the catch-plate and coiled at the other end to form a spring hinge . |
| 11 | Edward Blishen , the presenter , has an enviable gift for sketching in background and perspective , drawing up different strands of what was happening at the same time to make his argument , all with ease . |
| 12 | On the left a businessman is dictating a letter to be typed , pedalling at a treadle-powered Graphophone to give better speed control than possible with a hand-crank . |
| 13 | To cover this range of possibilities we concentrate on four DEMs : a 10 7 K isothermal one resulting in the hardest spectrum ; a solar flare-like DEM taken from ref.21 ; the solar active region DEM of ref.22 , modified at the highest temperature to decrease to zero above 10 7 K ; and an isothermal DEM at 10 6 K resulting in a very soft spectrum . |
| 14 | Since they would be stationed on inter-republican boundaries , the Supreme Soviet voted at the same time to work towards a definition of legal state borders with its neighbours by Feb. 1 , 1992 . |
| 15 | However , it is well worth using in dishes which require the wine to be added at a later stage to give flavouring . |
| 16 | Optimism over trading at the interim stage had proved unfounded , the group said yesterday . |
| 17 | Six hours into the journey , and several thousand feet higher , we stopped at a small village to quench our thirst and refuel the jeep from rusty milk-cans . |
| 18 | On the way to my next appointment with Denis King , a piano and some Joyce Grenfell songs , I stopped at a nearby theatre to smile winsomely at the box office boys in the hope that they 'd recognize me , in spite of my Titian disguise , and sell me some tickets for their sell-out play . |
| 19 | They stopped at the balustraded terrace overlooking the small lake , and leaned over ; below , enormous golden fish lay around in the green water . |
| 20 | That sort of language encouraged the many resentments Americans harbour against high culture ( remember the disparagement of Adlai Stevenson as an ‘ egghead ’ ? ) and led to such curiosae as the Chicago attack on an Eric Fischl painting in which a fully clothed boy looks at a naked man swinging a bat . |
| 21 | Tonight in the first of two reports , Richard Barnett looks at the traditional family links that have sustained the regiment down the centuries , in The Glosters … |
| 22 | Ed Douglas looks at the continuing controversy surrounding plans to bolt parts of Land 's End and suggests that though the idea may be dead , it 's a long way from being buried |
| 23 | Paralysed with terror , Evelyn gaped at the thundering carriage moving inexorably down towards the tiny girl like a horror in a nightmare . |
| 24 | Up to 10,000 are expected at the 12-hour party scheduled to begin at 8pm tomorrow on a private estate . |
| 25 | The second turning starts at the outside edge turning the whole field including the double row towards the hedgerow . |
| 26 | Robin Perutz , from the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory in Oxford , has looked at the reactive molecule formed when Green 's compound is irradiated with light . |
| 27 | Quite often operations could be cancelled at the last moment owing to worsening weather conditions , and this must have been a terrible let-down for them , after getting themselves keyed-up for yet another hectic night . |
| 28 | A young man called Tepilit ole paramat , the laibon 's brother , tried at the last minute to withdraw one of his cattle from the sale . |
| 29 | In positive terms , Roscoe Pound tried at an early stage to provide a concise , if rather general , statement of what realism stood for : |
| 30 | During the mela a slight outbreak of cholera occurred at a small station called Manickpore on the Jubbulpore line . |