Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite simply , not only do we and they not share common objectives , but we do not even make similar appraisals of world events , as the President of France demonstrated at the time of the coup in Moscow , when he seemed willing to negotiate with the coup 's leaders . |
| 2 | The Countess of Donnington stood at the window of the first-floor sitting room , intent on the street below . |
| 3 | In the 1990 edition of the annual United States government review of domestic industrial activity , ‘ Industrial Outlook ’ , the US Department of Commerce looked at the growth trend in printed and electronic information . |
| 4 | More generally , the great weight of basalt erupted at the surface may , in some cases , be sufficient to promote significant isostatic subsidence in the underlying bedrock . |
| 5 | A flicker of admiration showed at the back of his dark eyes . |
| 6 | The Prince of Wales looked at the bowl sharply . |
| 7 | Most interviewers knew that a mass of inconsistencies lay at the heart of Labour 's campaign , but getting Mr Kinnock to trip over them was another matter . |
| 8 | It was accompanied by an exhibition of work selected from the various groups of IAWA held at the Sala de Exposiciones de la Comunidad de Madrid . |
| 9 | The overwhelming majority of Shetlanders employed at the airport are unskilled , semi-skilled ‘ blue collar ’ workers . |
| 10 | Of course those who regarded the study of mind only as a branch of metaphysics smiled at the ineptitude of the mere man of science . |
| 11 | Moreover , as Dr Matt McGue of the University of Minnesota commented at the time , |
| 12 | The Queen of Pleasures groped at the wall and switched on the light . |
| 13 | Our Lady of Lourdes looked at the doorway opposite her in a gesture of supplication . |
| 14 | The restructuring of broadcasting in Nigeria began at the end of 1978 . |
| 15 | In his view , the minister 's responses to questions asked at the time the legislation was proposed were consistent with the interpretation that the words ‘ the expense incurred in or in connection with ’ meant that the provision of the benefit would produce a charge to tax on the additional or marginal cost only . |
| 16 | Explosions and convulsions of heat clawed at the energy shields — an unending succession of ravenous monsters springing into existence just outside , only to die because they could not feed yet , yet being born again instantly . |
| 17 | The left 's moment of revenge came at the Labour special conference at Wembley in 1980 . |
| 18 | Sometimes Mr. Campbell can extend the licence for another nine months and about 40 to 50 percent of businesses started at the enterprise centre have gone on to greater success . |
| 19 | The raiding party was to leave by air for Jalo on 11 January , but shortly before this a bedraggled group of men arrived at the base camp . |
| 20 | A group of children clustered at the place where the bridge forked to provide access to a set of warehouses . |
| 21 | In the short text the account of the Crucifixion and the meditator 's awareness of his own sin come to a climax in an outpouring of lyrical prose which has been printed as verse though it seems more effective if the surge of the rhymes and the alliterative cadences rise within the very structure of the prose like great waves to break in the bitter realisation that it is the meditator 's sin which both nails Christ to the cross and blocks the free expression of love in himself : All the internal rhyme , play on words ( ) and alliteration , which intensify the sense of the meditator 's awareness of both the creative power of God " king of " and the impotence of all his own functions , are lost in the long version which omits much of the intense self-disgust present in the short : The emphasis on Christ as the source of life and creativity is similarly highlighted in the short version in the skilful use made of rhyme , cadence and monosyllabic , strong-stressed ends of sentences to graphically convey the moment when he dies and the created cosmos fails : These effects are lost in the prosaic longer version : In both versions the meditator contemplates the appalling inversion of the created order with its lord suffering greater deprivation than the foxes and birds as he hangs " in eyre " ( 88. cf.101 ) with nowhere to lay his head — a reference to Matthew 8:20 traditionally used to emphasise the poverty of God embraced at the Incarnation . |
| 22 | ’ An absentee also included anyone who was a Palestinian citizen and left his ordinary place of residence in Palestine for a place outside Palestine before 1 September 1948 , or for a place in Palestine held at the time by forces which sought to prevent the establishment of the State of Israel or which fought against it after its establishment . ’ |
| 23 | The fall of the Manchus in China hinted at the far wider rebellion that would mark the first half of the twentieth century , transforming world political geography from a handful of empires , maps on which only the primary colours were needed to show each domain , to a mass of independent States , more numerous than the ingenuity of any distinguishable colour range . |
| 24 | The stars , writers , musicians and leading lights of Oxford gathered at the headquarters of the British Academy of Film and Television . |
| 25 | The customers in return sneered at the clothing offered to them , and flung it on the ground . |
| 26 | But one of the station 's journalists , Belfast-born Fionnuala Sweeney who presented the night 's occasion to Europe said at the end of it all : ‘ Who knows — we may be seeing you in Ireland next year . ’ |
| 27 | But when convoys of vehicles arrived at the sites to start their planned test drilling in August 1986 they met a blockade of people sitting in the road . |
| 28 | AQIB JAVED of Pakistan picked at the seam of a cricket ball in full view of BBC cameras at The Oval . |
| 29 | Further details from Brian Rose at the Institute . |
| 30 | After an even opening session and a terrific toe to toe burst at the start of the second it was Oakes who took a grip with McGrath soaking up a steady stream of hard right-hand shots . |