Example sentences of "[verb] at the [adj] [noun] ['s] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's all right , Mrs Duncan , ’ he said gently , appalled at the poor woman 's distress . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The two women met at the International Women 's Day March , after a break in their friendship of twenty years . |
| 11 | ‘ Look at the poor bugger 's face — ’ His arm hit me across the waist . |
| 12 | Look at the Chief Pathologist 's report . |
| 13 | And you look at the recent king 's mistresses , Edward the eighth , and er , sorry Edward the seventh . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ It has already been used at the International Children 's Festival in Inverleith , the Meadows Festival and the Royal Highland Show . |
| 19 | A maid arrived at the 23-year-old model 's £500,000 Paris flat expecting to find her . |
| 20 | He stares at the hydraulic dentist 's chair , angled up to an empty sky and an open sea . |
| 21 | He held his breath and sniffed at the dead man 's lips . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Jimi Hendrix Exhibition opens at The Special Photographer 's Company on May 1 . |
| 25 | The Sanhedrin did not meet at the high priest 's house ( Mark 14:53 ; Matt. |
| 26 | She glanced at the other girl 's expression , trying to decipher her real meaning . |
| 27 | That is the biggest criticism that we can lay at the Labour party 's door . |
| 28 | Carradine hacked at the other man 's stick and a length of wood flew away . |
| 29 | Saudi Arabia and other members also disagreed over the interpretation of the ‘ marker ’ crude price set at the previous year 's OPEC conference in Bah , with a resolution so widely phrased that each member could do whatever it chose . |
| 30 | The small fellow pulled at the tall boy 's trouser leg . |