Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb base] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The railway 's team crane , which was part of a demonstration goods train at the time , turned from game-keeper to poacher as it became derailed and had to be rescued by another crane . |
| 2 | Just as the rhymes , assonances and phrasal structures hover at the edge of identification , so the poem as a whole offers romantic glimpses of ‘ old unhappy far-off things ’ ( to cite Wordsworth ) , or ‘ magic casements opening on the foam/Of perilous seas , in faer y lan ds for l orn ’ ( to remember Keats ) . |
| 3 | The independently funded Elm Farm Research Centre is the only advice and research centre open at the moment |
| 4 | Although many Carlists and Falangists naturally disliked the Unification , with their fighting men busy at the front there was little they could do to resist it , especially since they shared the general Nationalist respect for ‘ authority ’ . |
| 5 | East Germans in Prague said they had seen building work begin at the weekend to make it more effective . |
| 6 | The data is then made public ; the full dataset and the commands to set it up for processing by the statistical package SPSS- X can be obtained from the Economic and Social Research Council Data Archive at the University of Essex for the cost of processing . |
| 7 | The core participants work at the University of Salford , the Erasmus University of Rotterdam , the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Charles University of Prague . |
| 8 | Experienced angel breeders look at the length difference of the finnage — males have slightly longer fins and sometimes show a marginally lumpy head , though these are not reliable features . |
| 9 | Mr Searle also likes Quattro Pro for Windows ' object inspectors : dialogue boxes appear at the click of a mouse button to lead you step by step through all the options available in a particular context ; you do n't have to select umpteen menu options . |
| 10 | Footsteps , then the door opened : a man , fortyish , glasses , slim , dark , meticulously groomed ; tailored slacks , a silk shirt open at the neck and patent leather house shoes . |
| 11 | So Ann Green from Mansfield off to see the Alton Towers fireworks display at the weekend enjoy it be brilliant . |
| 12 | Members of the parliament demanded in a 135-34 vote that Mr Yeltsin appear at the Congress tomorrow , when they may vote to remove him from office for declaring emergency rule and calling an April referendum . |
| 13 | Liz and the rest of the crew set sail at the weekend … it 'll be January 93 and seven thousand miles away when they land again |
| 14 | As with the provision of doctors , so with the provision of hospital resources inequalities increase at the local as compared to the regional level . |
| 15 | One of Mr Kitchen 's victims was stretched on the turf awaiting urgent medical attention when he heard one of the Barnsley supporters shout at the trainer : ‘ Do n't revive him . |
| 16 | Kingsley Parish Council meet at the centre . |
| 17 | Daphne says that many baby elephants arrive at the sanctuary in shock , having seen their entire extended family hacked to death . |
| 18 | Jackie Blanchflower and Kevin Connelly speak at the Ramside Hall do . |
| 19 | Three rusted iron wheels remain at the site , but otherwise all that can be seen are foundations and watercourses . |
| 20 | In contrast to higher specificity , higher exhaustivity increases recall at the cost of impaired precision . |
| 21 | The New Horizons choir perform at the Opera House in Blackpool tomorrow . |
| 22 | Knowledge of how word meanings combine at the sentence level can rule out grammatically correct , but semantically implausible sentences . |
| 23 | In 1976 he told listeners to the West Indies Test at the start of a new over , ‘ The bowler 's Holding , the batsman 's Willey . ’ |
| 24 | Only last week Claire won the ladies singles title at the East Cork championships defeating experienced international player Lesley O'Halloran — ten years her senior , incidentally — in the final . |
| 25 | Three shockcorded alloy poles cross at the apex of the dome and slot into small cupped pockets at the base of the fly . |
| 26 | Most field men call at the office first thing in the morning to collect files , planning applications or other paperwork , and to pick up clean sample bottles or other equipment . |
| 27 | And anytime they got in a fix , they called on the children to lift paper masks ( given out free and serving as a programme on the reverse ) to their faces and give a special Care Bear Stare at the stage to overcome Coldheart 's evil intent . |
| 28 | Testy waves slice at the boat . |
| 29 | This is the form which police officers use at the scene of an accident to describe the location and manoeuvres of vehicles . |
| 30 | When mixer taps leak at the base of the swivel nozzle , the washer or ‘ O'-ring there needs replacing . |