Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her long ginger hair tumbled to the floor ; her short white skirt rode up to hint at the delicious curves of her tender derriere . |
| 2 | London 's newest and brightest beauty salon has just opened at the Pineapple fitness studio , South Kensington . |
| 3 | I seem to have every form the Inland Revenue has ever published at the moment . |
| 4 | Singer Colin Gregory has obviously studied at the Richard Butler school of dry rot but his sneakily desiccated vocals contrast nicely with these high sugar melodies . |
| 5 | It is of greatest significance for persons employed under fixed-term contracts where the term has not expired at the time of the sale but the purchaser does not wish to take them on , and for employees with long notice periods such as three to six months . |
| 6 | Jinny felt her breath stop as her eyes swivelled automatically to look at the Hare-woman . |
| 7 | Two of the members , trumpeter Bryan Allen and horn player Stephen Roberts graduated from the University Music Department in 1980 , Stephen Roberts having previously studied at the Royal College of Music and held orchestral positions with the BBC . |
| 8 | Largely because of their native climate and sparse grazing , they are small animals standing perhaps 100–110cm at the withers on the islands and weighing 300–350kg , but in improved mainland environments they reach 116–122cm and can weigh 50 per cent more than the island cattle . |
| 9 | Wallace 's angled runs were badly missed : - the Whelan/Deane partnership did not work at the beginning of the season and never looked like it last night . |
| 10 | Levi did n't look at the leaderboard from the 7th hole until he was on the fairway at the 13th , when he noticed he held a two-shot lead . |
| 11 | In a fixed date action , if the defendant has not delivered a defence within the time limited , or in any action where the defendant does not appear at the pre-trial review ( or preliminary arbitration appointment ) , evidence by affidavit is admissible without notice unless the court otherwise orders ( Ord 20 , r 7(2) ; Ord 19 , r 5(2) ; Term No 2 ) . |
| 12 | This way of thinking does not lie at the disposal of the thinker . |
| 13 | In 1972–3 three pilot projects covering Sunderland , Oldham and Rotherham had earlier looked at the issues concerned with a ‘ total approach ’ to urban management . |
| 14 | Picasso had never exhibited at the large Salons or taken part in any group manifestations , and after the Indépendants of 1909 , Braque joined him in this particular kind of artistic isolation . |
| 15 | Many growers , not only in Champagne but throughout France , still innocently cultivate Pinot Blanc Vrai believing it to be Chardonnay , although anyone with doubts need only look at the leaves on the vine . |
| 16 | The committee became so unnerved at the thought that the club premises might be under threat that when I said I knew how to deal with these bounders , but it could only be as chairman , they swallowed it hook , line and sinker . |
| 17 | However , if your left heel lifts during the backswing or both feet remain firmly planted at the top , bracing the right foot , leg and hip during the backswing remains crucial to the working of the legs during the forward swing . |
| 18 | Work has already started at the Bowness development in Grangemouth to provide 65 two and three bedroom houses and to refurbish 18 council flats . |
| 19 | Strombolian activity , then , is a bit noisier than Hawaiian , but it 's still not particularly dangerous — there are two villages on Stromboli only a couple of kilometres from the ever-active vent , and the inhabitants rarely have cause to worry about whether they will live to see the sun rise on another day , or on another boatload of visitors coming across to look at the volcano . |
| 20 | For a minute more , the boy went on gazing at the Harewoman . |
| 21 | Betty Allsop , who had overheard the exchange , let out a hoot of laughter , while Maggie went on rubbing at the counter , but Rona 's reply was , ‘ That 'll be the day , even with a fellow like Billings . ’ |
| 22 | The number of births soon began to fall dramatically — by the early 1980s it was only two-thirds of the figure reached twenty years earlier ; car ownership did not increase at the expected rate — due in part to the sharp increase in Petrol prices in the early 1970s ; the demand for higher standards conflicted from the mid-1970s with central government 's belief that local government expenditure needed to be curtailed in line with a monetarist approach to economic policy . |
| 23 | Gray did not appreciate at the start of the season that the team was just not good enough . |
| 24 | and we were geared more to progress in the education system where the industrial change in the other countries did n't happen at the same time and that they needed now a younger ag a younger age group to keep the , the industrial system going |
| 25 | Francis Auld did n't appear at the town 's sheriff court today , and his case was continued without plea . |
| 26 | After dinner , the Shah and Carter retired to a study to talk about the Middle east with King Hussein , whom Crown Prince Reza and Ardeshir Zahedi had just welcomed at the door . |
| 27 | Firstly , as we have earlier shown , old people are not valued in the same way as children ; their suffering does not pull at the public heart-strings so strongly . |
| 28 | It was happening in Liverpool , where giggly Karen had just started at the local secondary mod , and in London , where Dennis Parsons was fast learning that the prime number is number one , and where Liza was studying art at the Slade . |
| 29 | NORTHERN Ireland will be represented on a committee set up to look at the handling of complaints from National Health Service patients and their families . |
| 30 | Following the demonstration that children could achieve various levels of skill in referential communication tasks , attention became increasingly directed at the reasons for the relatively limited success of preschool and early primary school children at these tasks . |