Example sentences of "[verb] at the [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His suicide , in protest at the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the forces of the Warsaw Pact — only Romania declined to participate - seemed to catch at the Western conscience as somehow symbolic of those dreadful days , though it produced no result other than a further deepening of the Cold War . |
| 2 | First , just two appear at the front end as distinct blocks of tissue and then , about each hour , another pair are added behind them and a wave of formation proceeds backwards so that at the end of a few days there are 46 somites . |
| 3 | Sanjurjo perished at the very outset when the plane taking him back to Spain from his Portuguese exile crashed on take-off . |
| 4 | Had she looked at the living Rachaela as now Rachaela looked at Ruth ? |
| 5 | Caroline did a rapid mental calculation , frowning at the rugged coastline as they skirted the eastern tip of the island . |
| 6 | Usually the word is applied at the immature stage before the eye swells with rising sap , often changing colour a little — which helps to identify it on a leafless stem . |
| 7 | Right , so we 're looking at the right price as well , O K , and what else are we looking for ? |
| 8 | We must implement the principle of ‘ subsidiarity ’ , that decisions should be made at the appropriate level whether that is local , regional , national or European . |
| 9 | They had met at the close mouth as she was inserting her key into the heavy outer door . |
| 10 | Other existences rub off on him , as can be shown at the grammatical level when he overhears a student and an army officer discussing the money-lender . |
| 11 | Such local compensation , however , can not occur at the small scale because the lithosphere has a finite strength and so changes in load result in regional isostatic adjustments over a greater area than that actually affected by the change in load ( Fig. 4.7(B) ) . |
| 12 | Your hands clutch at the gaping wound as you try to stop your entrails spilling into the slime of the sewer . ’ |
| 13 | We will look at the permanent situation as well . ’ |
| 14 | A number of that 25-35 age range were brought in as one of two groups who had an opportunity to look at the various stages while the possible designs were still being examined . |
| 15 | erm the west bank option for widen worsen road to be abandoned , that I quite agree with and design on , and then follow that , I 'd like erm do environmental report for members to be or for members to look at the environmental report before it comes here . |
| 16 | ‘ I would hope a club of the stature of Nottingham Forest might have been more willing to look at the domestic market if they wanted a young keeper . ’ |
| 17 | But erm I I do n't , still do n't see from this how we 're going to look at the underlying systems because it 's the system that concerns me . |
| 18 | He had seemed to sniff at the opened envelope as though it carried some scent , but the letter inside only peeped from the teat and was not taken out . |
| 19 | At 22h AEL ( shown here ) , EJC amplitude indicates increased gluR synthesis has occurred at the aberrant NMJ as in later stages of normal synaptogenesis . |
| 20 | I usually stand at the shallow end after she 's finished teaching me the floating bit , and watch her have her swim . |
| 21 | He glanced at the assembled company as though surprised to see so many people . |
| 22 | The bench table is fitted with a very useful horizontal angleguide which can be locked into any position in front of the disc , or it can be locked at the desired angle while being free to slide in a slot parallel with the disc face . |
| 23 | ‘ We are aiming at the Northern area because we feel it is desperately under-served , ’ he says , adding that discussions are also under way with Yorkshire Arts about touring in that area . |
| 24 | I explained that I had not entered at the right time because I had been a hostage in Iraq . |
| 25 | These proposals are aimed at providing the public with more reassurances than are provided at the present time as to whether boards of directors have fulfilled their stewardship responsibilities . |
| 26 | They too have mastered the fundamentals of the Common Military Syilabus and will continue to build on the foundations laid at the WRAC Centre When they return to their units . |
| 27 | Becker hints at the inside model when he concludes , not without generating some confusion , that ‘ whether a given act is deviant or not depends in part on the nature of the act ( that is , whether or not it violates some rule ) and in part on what other people do about it ’ . |
| 28 | We know rather little about what kind of bargains are struck at the present time although inheritance is always a possible way of ensuring that the balance of support does not tip too much in one direction , even if its use is not spoken about openly . |
| 29 | The court heard that Mr Hale 's crew was one of the first to arrive at the underground station after the fire broke out . |
| 30 | For example , a centred heading above justified text would become blocked at the left-hand margin if Alt+P was applied to it as well as to the text below . |