Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 erm There was a great deal of difficulty I think at the court , as well as the rather glamorous exterior .
2 One of the things the group in Wolverhampton I think at the Theatre Royal there is , is doing both audio descriptions by sign language I think and one of the things they 've , they , they do is meet in the bar
3 I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway .
4 Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television .
5 As I told a couple of surveyors I met at the ground earlier today , ‘ Building on here would be like trying to wallpaper a Slumberland mattress . ’
6 When he suggested Peter , of course I jumped at the chance — Peter was winning absolutely everything .
7 However , during the initial discussions I hinted at the desirability of video recording or tape recording their science teaching , to examine their use of questioning .
8 Trying to ignore this assault on my fundamental antinomies I peered at the train set .
9 Now I do n't care what people say : at times I look at the child and I am so happy I ca n't sleep at night .
10 However , at other times I feel at the end of my tether .
11 Outside in the cobbled farmyard I glanced at the side of the barn .
12 In the lavatory I stared at the mirror .
13 Looking back at him , she said , ‘ The only ambition I have at the moment is to survive my eighteen months with G.W. Fashions .
14 On Crag Hill I stopped at the cairn to look down on Dentdale spread below me , Helms Knott , the Howgills and the distant forms of Cross Fell , Dun Fell and , facing me , the long ridge of Barbondale .
15 At an informal meeting of the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group , China also approved a 15-year extension to a licence for local utility Hongkong Electric which expires at the end of 1993 , and gave the go-ahead for a landfill project .
16 The third congress of journalists which met at the end of January simply stressed the importance of party leadership of the press and made no practical survey of what was actually happening .
17 For a repetitive task there may be comparatively little going on in the mind which emerges at the level of consciousness .
18 Walker ( 1988 ) , in a study which looked at the race of young males disposed of by the courts in London in 1983 , found that of those prosecuted , more blacks had their case dismissed without trial due to insufficient evidence , suggesting according to Walker , that either ‘ … the police more readily prosecute black people ’ , or that ‘ the court requires more convincing evidence for black defendants ’ ( Walker 1988 , p.459 ) .
19 But in the 1860s and 1870s the development of the steam trawler , the use of ice for preservation , and the exploitation of the rail network signalled the arrival of cheap cod and made possible the fish-and-chip shops which multiplied at the end of the century to furnish an important source of protein to the working class .
20 It is necessary to look at the words which appear at the foot of the defined expressions in section 251 .
21 That this was an error was explained to the House by Lord Eversley , who then stated that ‘ the case was provided for by words which appear at the end of the clause ’ .
22 It is important to note that the political party system in the Republic of Ireland is largely based on the divisions in the national-popular consciousness which occurred at the time of the Irish civil war .
23 The crisis over the succession which emerged at the end of Anne 's reign did not so much divide the parties , but split the Tories .
24 The sum insured applicable to a claim is the figure which applied at the date of the loss , i.e. the sum insured at inception/renewal date plus the appropriate index-linking to the date of loss .
25 The principal of these is the Amotape breccia fan which occurs at the foot of the Amotape range , a part of the Andean system rising abruptly 1 500 m ( 5 000 ft ) high above the desert .
26 They must consider all new books as well as the old ones , and must therefore hold back enough funds to cover those books which appear at the end of the financial year .
27 The growth of European Community funded farming has increased losses which began at the beginning of the century .
28 At birth a child enters the condition of infancy — a condition which ceases at the age of 18 years , or rather , at the first moment of the day preceding the eighteenth birthday .
29 What result you want at the end of the day ?
30 After making the tea she sat at the kitchen table to drink it , and was still sitting there when dawn broke .
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