Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UN flies bodies home THE BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen were flown home to Pakistan yesterday as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days ’ . |
| 2 | BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen in Mogadishu were flown home to Pakistan as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days . ’ |
| 3 | A friend and I were driving in spring to Crarae gardens near Inveraray so I could salivate over the rhododendrons , but we grew tired of travelling at seven miles an hour behind clods in caravans and on reaching the Rest And Be Thankful pulled into the side to wander about at the base of Beinn an Lochain . |
| 4 | Garry Whannel traced four main themes in the analysis of football hooliganism in the popular press in the 1970s : fans were ‘ mindless/senseless ’ ; they were ‘ maniacs/lunatics ’ ; ‘ foul/subhuman ’ ( which led some fans to chant back at the police and the respectable public ‘ We hate humans ’ ) ; finally that they were ‘ so-called supporters ’ and in a small minority , i.e. they made up only a very small percentage of the crowd and they had little interest in the game itself . |
| 5 | It would be like the attempt to look directly at the sun that dazzles and finally blinds rather than enlightens . |
| 6 | An opposition MP , Mr Jan Van Eck , yesterday accused the police of complicity in the latest fighting to break out at the Cape Town squatter camp , Crossroads . |
| 7 | The 39-year-old , on what he insists is his last tour , re-asserted his intention to return home at the end of the India leg on 6 March — rather than go , after all , to Sri Lanka for the final fortnight in an effort to help restore confidence and belief to his side . |
| 8 | In time , however , she rose and moved off to sample the hedgerow , stretching her long , white neck to nibble delicately at the tips of the hawthorn . |
| 9 | They assumed that pupils , mostly boys , of course , who were failing on the school reading scheme simply needed more and more opportunity to slog away at the phonics and sight vocabulary while under tight supervision . |
| 10 | You got a very good committee , dedicated committee erm who , you see the young trainees were sent to the technical colleges and you see , erm some of them did go on if they graduated to Stanford Hall , but I mean those that went to technical college , we used to have to get the committee to sit in at the examinations . |
| 11 | Across the road to the butcher 's where they looked in the window to see back at the reflection of Hogan 's Outfitters and realise that Sean Walsh had gone back inside to the empire that would one day be his . |
| 12 | Regression enables the former child to look back at the situation through the eyes of the adult he or she has now become and to see the reality of it all . |
| 13 | It was as though a voice had actually said the words aloud , and she moved sharply and leaned against the window to stare blankly at the room . |
| 14 | She swung her legs over the edge of the bed and went over to the window to look down at the courtyard . |
| 15 | ‘ The point is , ’ said Dyson , thumping the car down into second to slow up at the traffic lights , ‘ a journalist ought to be specializing by the time he 's forty . |
| 16 | Mercer used his pace in the second half to get in at the corner after Harmon 's effort and Forster scored after a quick-witted kick by Turner , who also kicked five goals . |
| 17 | ‘ In prayer we are gradually hollowed out to become more ‘ capax Dei ’ ’ ( capacity for God ) , said Maria Boulding , and someone pastoring others will be only too aware of the need to receive even at the price of felt ( and often uncomfortable ) emptiness . |
| 18 | Oxygen depletion causes fish to gulp strongly at the water surface . |
| 19 | ‘ It is the right moment to look critically at the structure . |
| 20 | The need to look carefully at the wording on that particular part of H one . |
| 21 | Brief site visits are not sufficient to supervise work effectively and the surveyor must ensure that adequate time is set aside when on site to look closely at the work executed since the last inspection . |
| 22 | If we picture a vibration as a cycle , that is as equivalent to a rotation round a circle to arrive back at the beginning again , the angular distance travelled in the mathematician 's natural units is 2π . |
| 23 | The sediment at the bottom of the sea permits nuclear waste to leak out at the rate of 1 metre per 10000 years not 10 years as appeared in last week 's article ( Technology , 17 February , p 442 ) . |
| 24 | As a result , Labour thinking began to lay more stress on state control , on the need to take over at the centre and then to redistribute wealth and plan for the whole country . |
| 25 | Have you got a spare T'shirt to put on at the end if it gets cold ? |
| 26 | The try came after good work by Gordon Lawrie and then a blindside move featuring Mike Allingham and Andy McRobbie which allowed Russell Adam to go over at the corner . |
| 27 | Lofoten was chosen for this first large raid because it offered a chance to hit back at the enemy as well as such economic targets as the destruction of fish oil supplies , which might impair German manufacture of nitro-glycerine and would reduce supplies of vitamin A and B capsules issued to German troops . |
| 28 | If we were gon na say , right , this only is gon na apply to mega- projects , tt and therefore it would be appropriate for the project coordinator to be the person to sit down at the start of the job , when he 's agreeing the remit with the client , when he 's developing the erm tt er who 's doing what within the functions . |
| 29 | It was , however , by now well south of the airport and , after acknowledging an air traffic control instruction to report back at the BN beacon ready for another approach , the Vanguard tracked toward the BS , another beacon which was immediately to the south of the landing runway , 16 . |
| 30 | Earlier , Labour used the cut-out of Chancellor Lamont to hit out at the introduction of charges for eye and dental checks , increased bills from privatised companies , the cost of administrating the Poll Tax and VAT . |