Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Goes in at one of his ears and out at the other .
2 In two days at Snetterton , first in the company of Benetton 's Formula One driver Martin Brundle and then at the wheel of the Snetterton school 's racing cars , I found that the limits of my own prudence , dependability and , even , sanity were disturbingly slim .
3 Creggan could not see that at the sound of his words and particularly at the name of Callanish , there came into the eyes of old Minch , who was now held in the cage by the Men , a look as from some vast distance in the past .
4 Doubt is therefore tackled primarily at the point of action and not at the point of reflection .
5 She was present at the birth of the Blessed Virgin , who was then given over to her care for twelve years , and at the Visitation and the birth of St John the Baptist and even at the birth of the Saviour , when she was allowed to provide bedding for the Virgin and swathing-clothes for the Child .
6 Watkins found them sited at intervals along a ley and often at the crossing of two leys .
7 The first of what promised to be a long series of show trials of former senior officials of the ousted Ceausescu regime ended on Feb. 2 when a military tribunal in Bucharest found Emil Bobu , Manea Manescu , Ion Dinca and Tudor Postelnicu guilty of " co-authorship of genocide " in connection with the killing of demonstrators in Timisoara , Bucharest and elsewhere at the start of the December 1989 revolution [ see pp. 37104-05 ] .
8 Let us look in more detail at the difficulties inherent for everyone in appropriate penetration and then at the problems that can arise in marriage when these are or an extreme nature .
9 The exhibition is in Münster until 31 May and subsequently at the Wilhelm-Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg ( 28 June to 9 August ) and Mannheim .
10 Firstly , I was I too was , if I can use the expression , gob-smacked at the strength of feeling that was expressed at the Social Services Committee and subsequently at the Policy Services Committee as well .
11 Well , if I erm said to one of my students something about that was a very good essay you wrote , in fact I 'd like to discuss it a little bit more down at the pub and down at the pub I put my hand on his knee perhaps in making a point about how good his essay was .
12 Looking at their names , I wondered about their nationality , and the booklets tells us that they are in fact ‘ of mixed Turkish/Spanish parentage ’ and that from the age of about ten their training was as the Paris Conservatoire , the Frankfurt Musikhochschule , under Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and finally at the Juilliard School , New York .
13 In public perceptions the gap between Conservative unity and Labour unity narrowed sharply in the first few days of the campaign and again at the end , but actually increased very slightly in the third week .
14 ‘ Well , it 's a good thing it happened at home and not at the racecourse .
15 Barr 's European equivalents flourished in the 1950s rather than the 1930s — Jean Cassou at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris , Wilhelm Sandberg at the Stedlijk in Amsterdam , Pontus Hulten at the Modern Museum in Stockholm and then at the Pompidou Centre in Paris .
16 This project , which is being carried out by George Bain is concerned with analysing patterns of union growth at an aggregate level and also at the level of individual occupations and industries .
17 Notice now that the range is compatible only at the virtual computer level and not at the hardware level .
18 The cells from the outside move into the interior during gastrulation and only at the end of the gastrulation are they more or less in their proper position .
19 Sometimes they carried out the work at the Hankses ' cottage and occasionally at the farm , but so tired was Seb as a result of the long days he was working that twice he fell asleep while Carrie was writing .
20 ‘ Various people in the Ministry and here at the Questura . ’
21 Magee looked at the cardboard and then at the man who , he guessed .
22 A little museum in Broadbank helps to tell the history of the town and right at the door is placed the Blue-stone : an enormous boulder which once stood on a street corner in the town and is thought to have been brought here by the Scandinavian ice flow .
23 I showed paintings in many south coast towns and in the early 19802 began to show in London , first at the Patrick Searle Gallery in Motcomb Street and then at the Mercury Gallery , my present dealers .
24 In the course of the 1960s the boundaries of what counted as " English " began to expand as more interdisciplinary and joint programmes of study were offered , especially at the new universities and later at the polytechnics .
25 They walked around the graveyard for a short time , looking at the graves and then at the papers .
26 Thus , they are sometimes situated at the front of the Segment , between the acrotergite and prescutum and sometimes at the back of a segment , behind the postnotum .
27 Encouraged both financially and materially by the Bank , the partners , in great secrecy , first at Croydon and then at the Bank itself , between 1818 and 1821 produced banknotes by offset .
28 Mahmoud was another one who did n't take a siesta and just at the moment , still simmering over the way Zoser had slipped through his fingers , he was driving his men hard .
29 Although the seasoning of foods is a very personal matter , I believe that it is preferable to add salt during cooking to benefit the developing flavours and not at the table , where the tongue will distinguish the undissolved salt added to the food .
30 I trained as a physicist and spent many years in laser research , first in Canada and then at the NPL in Teddington .
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