Example sentences of "[verb] at the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Passing the township , both brakes jammed on , I slither and judder down the newly regravelled surface , hoping for something to pass and pick me up , but also marvelling at the open splendour of the valley scenery which surprises me afresh every time I look . |
| 2 | These were that the maximum speed of flights was to be reduced from 835 kmph to 778 kmph and that the amount of time permitted at the lowest level of 75 metres was to be cut from 28 to 15 minutes , with the rest of the flight being made at no lower than 150 metres . |
| 3 | Phyllis is very particular about cleanliness , which is why she always shops at the new branch of Safeways . |
| 4 | Mehrabad , as previously mentioned , was attacked at the very beginning of the war . |
| 5 | Still fuming at the insensitive arrogance of the man she turned and left the office . |
| 6 | Everybody reacted as one , condemning this nonsense and laughing at the bare-faced cheek of it . |
| 7 | Was he laughing at the absurd idea of being an old fogey ? |
| 8 | We first met Pacific waters at the windswept village of Puerto Natales , and suddenly there were mountains all around us : mountains and glaciers , and curious seabirds and dolphins and spume-whipped sea , the water a vivid blue under a cloudless sky . |
| 9 | He was educated at the Marischal College of Aberdeen and a private school in Chelsea , and from 1831 till 1835 he attended classes at the University of Edinburgh . |
| 10 | Descartes could not avoid being a product of the Counter-Reformation , having been educated at the Jesuit College of La Flèche . |
| 11 | From the age of thirteen he was educated at the Jesuit College of St Omer , France , winning the laurel wreath for French studies . |
| 12 | He was educated at the military college of Tournay in Languedoc . |
| 13 | Signs that there had been loss of control appear at the very beginning of James 's reign when commissioners hearing private suits to the King were ordered not to give reversions to places of consequence . |
| 14 | The city of Nagpur in the State of Maharashtra , located at the geographical centre of India , was considered to be the capital of their empire formerly known as Naga Dwipa , one of the surviving relics of old India known as Bharata Varsha . |
| 15 | The immigration office is located at the eastern end of the main port authority building ( Edificio Junta del Porto ) . |
| 16 | The cells are lost from the tips of the folds and the stem cells are located at the very base of the folds . |
| 17 | Located at the very heart of San Francisco on Union Square , this elegant and historic hotel is arguably San Francisco 's finest , and offers a wide range of facilities and excellent accommodation to the discerning traveller . |
| 18 | In patients with oesophagitis Grade 0 , I , and II , this mucosal junction is very close or located at the proximal limit of the lower oesophageal sphincter . |
| 19 | One source of information lies buried deep within the voluminous papers of the Baldwin Locomotive Works , Philadelphia — at one time the largest locomotive plant in the world — located at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania . |
| 20 | Constable Laurie gave evidence that on 5th August he entered at the back door of 149 Chatham Street , that he received from her 1/9d. , and that she received from him a betting slip . |
| 21 | The different frequencies of light are what the human eye sees as different colors , with the lowest frequencies appearing at the red end of the spectrum and the highest frequencies at the blue end . |
| 22 | Finubar departs for the Old World , landing at the Bretonnian port of L'Anguille . |
| 23 | Avoid trying to jump white water , aiming instead to jump at the steepest part of the wave which is normally the part about to break , the critical section . |
| 24 | A communiqué issued by the UN Interim Force in Lebanon ( UNIFIL ) , whose mandate was extended by a further six months on Jan. 31 , 1990 , protested at the alleged killing of two UNIFIL soldiers by the pro-Israeli South Lebanon Army on Feb. 20 . |
| 25 | If I understood him correctly , this is an aspect of what David Parkin described at the 1973 Association of Social Anthropologists Conference as Personal Anthropology . |
| 26 | Black pretended not to overhear , but mused at the private world of women and the bond that had formed between the two . |
| 27 | It was the third day after she had dressed , gone out , without wearing her underclothes , into her car , driving on the main road through Tadley , driving all the way to Kingsclere , knocking at the front door of the home of a woman who was almost a stranger , going into a house that she hardly knew . |
| 28 | A washroom and WC were included at the left corner of the new room . |
| 29 | The voice startled her but when she looked round she winced at the stale smell of alcohol on the man 's breath . |
| 30 | Mary winced at the incontinent ignition of thanks activated by the discovery of a modest twist of Joseph 's tobacco . |