Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We have the county council and the district councils telling us what a good job they do at the present time , spending a lot of money in doing it , we have provided this largely out of our own efforts , we 've got grants from er other bodies , I think it 's something that we should properly erm hallmark as an initiative of this parish council to celebrate one hundred years of parish government , and I would propose centenary field . |
| 32 | Linford Christie also runs his first major individual race of the summer in tonight 's Golden Gala and will be looking for the sort of confidence-booster he gained at the same meeting last year . |
| 33 | I giggle a little as I fetch the little dark blue jacket I bought at the same time : it was rather extravagant to buy both but they seemed to belong together . |
| 34 | His poetry tells a different story : there was wide and profound sentience — of man and nature , of beauty and the beast , of times and seasons , of perception and tactility , of hearing and tasting , and smelling ; at the bottom of which remains an unresolved questing , a whole gamut of unanswered questions which drove at the very heart of what he most wished to believe . |
| 35 | Following this was the rodeo World Championships on the Bitches which decided at the last minute to include a ladies ' competition . |
| 36 | Mr Beavers , 37 , a married man with two children , won a bravery award for the rescue but is suffering from viral fatigue syndrome which strikes at the nervous system and brain . |
| 37 | Two more birdies coming home compensated for the bogeys she had at the fourteenth and sixteenth holes . |
| 38 | The diagonal constructions employed in the paintings she selected at the National Gallery and their use as a formal agent aiding and abetting the organisation of colour is what Riley emphasises and announces in her own work of this period . |
| 39 | Tabkay , as they call him , is one of 35 Buddhists who live at the 30-room Kilnwick Percy Hall , otherwise known as the Madhyamaka Buddhist Centre , just outside Pocklington . |
| 40 | Nothing in her life so far had prepared Laura for the shock she experienced at the sheer animal magnetism projected by the stranger . |
| 41 | This often provokes a negative reaction from the other person who bridles at the explicit disagreement and therefore fails to listen to the reasons — indeed , is highly likely to interrupt the reasons rather than hear them out . |
| 42 | Erm I have already referred sir to the investigations which are proceeding with regard to the ability to erm , as it were , encourage er this er amphibian to go to other ponds , and I would again call your attention to the state of the knowledge we have at the present time , which is that that is not possible . |
| 43 | We had received the full blast of his whimsicality the minute we arrived at the ancient wood-frame rectory , modernised in 1812 ( according to the brochure ) by the great-grandson of Sir Christopher Wren . |
| 44 | That 's reach a common understanding which reflects the realities of a relationship we enjoy at the present day so that we can all get on with the task of serving our members and forming a Labour government . |
| 45 | " Philip so honoured him " , wrote Roger of Howden , " that every day they ate at the same table , shared the same dish and a- night the bed did not separate them . |
| 46 | In October he flew at the first British flying meeting at Doncaster , and there he became a naturalized British subject . |
| 47 | If , for instance , he drops a ball it accelerates at the same rate as the capsule and will remain at rest relative to the capsule , whatever their shared acceleration . |
| 48 | He enjoyed the salmon trout he ate at the small inn there but was mighty scathing about the visitors ' book ( as well as about the notion that the lake might actually be beautiful ) : ‘ You will see only two kinds of exclamations in it : one about the beauty of the Lac de Gaube , the other about how good the trout are … which means that only fools or gluttons have picked up the pen to sign their names and their thoughts . ’ |
| 49 | ‘ One week I look at the various uses of manure , another , say , a flat cap that can improve your golf swing or the cup and spoon for people with moustaches . ’ |
| 50 | At least , that 's the feeling I get at the best of my poetry-reading moments . |
| 51 | What precipitated the final crisis with Penda and the attack on Oswiu which culminated at the Winwaed on 15 November in 655 or 656 is obscure but Penda was almost certainly the primary moving force , the centre of a coalition which included Cadafael , king of Gwynedd ( HB ch. 65 ) , Aethelhere , king of the eastern Angles , and Oethelwald , king of the Deirans ( HE 111 , 24 ) . |
| 52 | Two of the daughters , Annie and Rose , were painters who exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1887 and 1885 . |
| 53 | erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country I guess but but where I come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they could n't get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry I think you 'd probably call it in Scotland , do n't they ? |
| 54 | She drew a deep breath , and with her cheek pressed against his green woollen jersey she stared at the flightless bird searching for tasty morsels on the path ahead of them . |
| 55 | And contrast means you then compare th a compare means you look at the similar yeah it could be the similarities and differences , I quite like that . |
| 56 | Okay so last week we looked at the participatory model of democracy which in essence of Russo 's Theory in three ways . |
| 57 | When Hellen and I first came to live near London , the first concert we attended at the Royal Festival Hall was a performance of Beethoven 's Piano Concerto No 4 , with Robert Casadesus at the piano and Andre Previn conducting the London Symphony Orchestra . |
| 58 | This month we look at the new arrangements for meeting the costs of residential care places . |
| 59 | Unfortunately , the JMP-1 has no input on the back and so in some ways it falls at the final fence , because I ca n't really see how you can set it up to work in a neat and user-friendly rack ; you 'd have to wire the thing up every time you gigged it . |
| 60 | After demobilization he worked at the National Hospital , Queen Square , and at Hammersmith Hospital , and in 1947 was appointed assistant physician to Dr A. G. Ogilvie at the RVI , where he further developed his neurological interests and established a flourishing private practice . |