Example sentences of "[verb] at the [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gratefully Gina covered her nakedness , marvelling at the strange circumstances in which she found herself . |
| 2 | THE round of applause which the Prime Minister attracted at the European summit in Strasbourg earlier this month has already entered the folklore of Thatcherism . |
| 3 | In Saunders 's view , the ‘ local state ’ can not simply be reduced to a functioning part of a national capitalist state , for within certain constraints ‘ non-capitalist interests can win at the local level in a way that is becoming increasingly difficult at national level ’ ( pp. 4 , 11 ) . |
| 4 | On Oct. 13 , 1989 ( i.e. before the ousting of Zhivkov ) , the BCP newspaper Rabotnichesko Delo published the transcripts of letters sent to the Soviet leadership in the 1940s by Bulgaria 's first communist leader , Georgi Dimitrov , in which he had protested at the wrongful incarceration in the Soviet Union of Bulgarian communists during the Stalinist terror . |
| 5 | Its aim , according to Vice-President Al Gore , is to " ensure that environmental considerations are brought to bear at the earliest stages in the development of economic policy " . |
| 6 | NINE of 13 drug charges against a former tyre depot manager were dropped at the High Court in Aberdeen yesterday . |
| 7 | It covers the upper part of the body and consists of bands of semicircular scales all pointing upwards , ending at the lower edge in a belt from which hangs a broad piece of pleated cloth . |
| 8 | Tell the candidate what is happening at the next stage in the selection and/or the date when you will be letting people know your decision . |
| 9 | He peered at the tangled convulsions in the Daemon card . |
| 10 | They stopped at the biggest hotel in the town , and went in to their rooms . |
| 11 | When the train stopped at the all-too-active battlefield in the frozen wastes of the Siberian-Manchurian border , her only hope was to walk back along the railway track to the previous station : |
| 12 | He smiled without humour when Frankie sucked at the soap-filled cloth in order to sluice the taste of rancid beck-water from his mouth . |
| 13 | When you press the Enter key , DOS looks at the first word in the string of characters you 've typed in and compares it to a list of command names stored in the file called COMMAND.COM . |
| 14 | The opening chapter uses a slightly different method and looks at the greatest variable in improving — namely ourselves , since the way we approach and react to learning greatly affects the end result . |
| 15 | In the first of his ‘ State of Grace ’ reports he looks at the current crises in the Kirk . |
| 16 | This month Cathy Bryan looks at the best buys in sandpits and paddling pools |
| 17 | In practice , since philosophy often proceeds by paying attention to past philosophers and their ideas , the two categories overlapped to some extent with each other , and with a third category , political philosophy , which looks at the political philosophers in the light of the practice and experiences of feminist politics ( see Okin , 1980 ; Elshtain , 1981 ; O'Brien , 1981 ) . |
| 18 | Mum looks at the proffered phone in a slightly puzzled way . |
| 19 | David Goldsmith looks at the latest developments in equipment technology |
| 20 | If one looks at the continuing difficulties in eastern Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet empire , which some now call the UFFR — the union of fewer and fewer republics — one sees that those troubles could trigger off large movements of displaced persons across national frontiers . |
| 21 | It starts at the highest office in the country — and works right through to the youngest , newest , employee . |
| 22 | Recent seminars have looked at the changing situation in southern Africa and the Gulf War and its effects . |
| 23 | So far , we have looked at the external environment in only a very general kind of way . |
| 24 | Parallel procedural changes occurred at the same time in the Senate , but other factors were at work there too . |
| 25 | Precisely this eventuality had been considered at the highest level in the days just before the war ended . |
| 26 | Earlier , Tanjug 's correspondent reported from Bucharest that armoured vehicles ran over students , while police turned automatic gunfire on crowds chanting ‘ Down with Ceausescu ’ and ‘ Down with the killers ’ during demonstrations that erupted at the government-organised rally in support of President Ceausescu . |
| 27 | Leonora was silent , frowning at the passing countryside in deep preoccupation . |
| 28 | With that problem out of the way , he carefully examined her , frowning at the obvious ascites in her abdomen . |
| 29 | LEADING Liberal-Democrat MP David Alton will quit at the next election in protest at the party 's decision yesterday to back pro-abortion policies . |
| 30 | John Ellis of Hanmer ( a small village just across the Welsh border ) was presented at the manorial court in 1581 ‘ for erecting of one bay of a house upon the lords waste grounde in Myddle woode ’ . |