Example sentences of "[verb] at the [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies ' College , Ormond College , and Melbourne University , where she studied philosophy and history ( BA 1903 ) . |
| 2 | He was encouraged to assume this double burden by Arthur Ponsonby , the younger brother of Fritz , who after nine years in the Diplomatic Service had resigned to sit in the Commons as a Liberal ; finding his colleagues inadequately radical , Ponsonby had then joined the Labour Party and in January 1924 was installed at the Prime Minister 's elbow as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs . |
| 3 | Eastern Europe is knocking at the European Community 's door . |
| 4 | The film looks at the domestic horse 's herd instincts , translates what it 's really trying to signal to us , and explains the natural behaviours exploited in horses on sentry duty , in dressage or in the rodeo . |
| 5 | Er I think I am on version ten , I do n't know whether that 's one or two more than , but er , the officers have worked , worked very hard and I 'm very grateful to them , erm I 'm also very grateful to the primary heads , secondary heads , their own staff associations , and the representatives of the governors for whom Hilary , Bob and I have met , and er we 've listened very carefully to what they have to say and we 've done our modest best to er to er use their priorities as well as our own perhaps political one , we 've looked at the educational value er , I suspect more than the other two groups erm than the political sum . |
| 6 | Now I know my pornographic magazines : Debonair belonged to the cheaper range , targeted at the manual worker 's handjob , with many a salacious housewife or spotty-bummed Swede twisting herself in and out of chain-store under-wear . |
| 7 | Shortly after the end of the strike , Dobre left the valley to go and study at the Communist Party 's university in Bucharest , the Academy Stefan Gheorghe . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's all right , Mrs Duncan , ’ he said gently , appalled at the poor woman 's distress . |
| 9 | Dr Donald Clarke , of the British National Party , was not present and a show of hands suggested he has little support at the independent girls ' school . |
| 10 | Sargent 's suggested solution to this problem can be seen by looking at the simple n = 3 case , which led to the restrictions of equation ( 3.50 ) . |
| 11 | We will start by looking at the parametric problem P3 . |
| 12 | Now a special paddock has been built at the Australian government 's Ginnindera Experimental Station , surrounded by piping which collects air from the field and analyses its gas content . |
| 13 | The two women met at the International Women 's Day March , after a break in their friendship of twenty years . |
| 14 | ‘ Look at the poor bugger 's face — ’ His arm hit me across the waist . |
| 15 | Look at the Chief Pathologist 's report . |
| 16 | And you look at the recent king 's mistresses , Edward the eighth , and er , sorry Edward the seventh . |
| 17 | Just look at the conventional memory er if I put an entry in a cell in the first block of this column . |
| 18 | That was the same year in which the first of the classic Austin-Healey line , the four cylinder 100–4 went into production , having been adopted by Austin from a Healey design shown at the previous year 's show . |
| 19 | Following evidence produced at the Special Commissioners ' hearing , W purported to revise the accounting period by virtue of s 247(8) , TA 1970 so that it ran from 1 February 1977 to 31 January 1978 , rather than 25 October 1977 . |
| 20 | would prefer that too er partly because it would give everybody an opportunity to look at the particular problem er in , in , in , in , in a shorter period of time , erm we are also cheered by the recent visit to England by the minister there Mr who made certain promises , I think it would be useful if Mr who a candidate at the meeting would reiterate his promises publicly today , thank you Chairman . |
| 21 | The People 's Liberation Army was told at the National People 's Congress in March to meet its financial needs by making a profit out of business operations … it sounds close to privatising the armed forces . |
| 22 | Shareholders were told at the Bournemouth-based group 's annual meeting yesterday that January reservations were 9.4 per cent up on last year 's and that this month , a 41-unit development was sold to a housing association . |
| 23 | ‘ It has already been used at the International Children 's Festival in Inverleith , the Meadows Festival and the Royal Highland Show . |
| 24 | A maid arrived at the 23-year-old model 's £500,000 Paris flat expecting to find her . |
| 25 | He stares at the hydraulic dentist 's chair , angled up to an empty sky and an open sea . |
| 26 | He held his breath and sniffed at the dead man 's lips . |
| 27 | Autonomy for the London staff was not one of his priorities , but a connection with Jagger was , so the paper was , initially , based at the Rolling Stones ' offices in Maddox Street , Mayfair . |
| 28 | The Jimi Hendrix Exhibition , which opens at The Special Photographer 's Company from the beginning of May , celebrates the guitarist through a series of images which show the man , the musician and , more importantly , the rock icon which immediately flashes to mind whenever the name Jimi Hendrix is mentioned . |
| 29 | The Jimi Hendrix Exhibition opens at The Special Photographer 's Company on May 1 . |
| 30 | The Sanhedrin did not meet at the high priest 's house ( Mark 14:53 ; Matt. |