Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gratefully Gina covered her nakedness , marvelling at the strange circumstances in which she found herself . |
| 2 | In some situations holiday arrangements might be organised at a lower level in the organisation , particularly in specialist areas , such as operating theatres , where interchange of staff between departments is less easy . |
| 3 | This means that the extra payments received for overtime beyond the scheduled week are earned at an earlier stage in large firms . |
| 4 | A faint smile crossed Lancaster 's face , as though he was laughing at a cruel joke in dubious taste . |
| 5 | Educated at a private school in Norton near Sheffield , Gaskell was apprenticed as a clerk to Yates & Cox , Liverpool iron merchants and nail-makers , in 1827 . |
| 6 | Helena was educated at a French boarding-school in Neuville , and then at Notting Hill High School . |
| 7 | He wo n't have to go to the two language schools being set up by Volvo and Renault in France and Sweden to teach English to engineers and designers ; le Quement was educated at a public school in England . |
| 8 | THE round of applause which the Prime Minister attracted at the European summit in Strasbourg earlier this month has already entered the folklore of Thatcherism . |
| 9 | In Saunders 's view , the ‘ local state ’ can not simply be reduced to a functioning part of a national capitalist state , for within certain constraints ‘ non-capitalist interests can win at the local level in a way that is becoming increasingly difficult at national level ’ ( pp. 4 , 11 ) . |
| 10 | The MoD had claimed at a public inquiry in 1988 that they needed the land for training and in 1991 asked to extend the area further . |
| 11 | On Oct. 13 , 1989 ( i.e. before the ousting of Zhivkov ) , the BCP newspaper Rabotnichesko Delo published the transcripts of letters sent to the Soviet leadership in the 1940s by Bulgaria 's first communist leader , Georgi Dimitrov , in which he had protested at the wrongful incarceration in the Soviet Union of Bulgarian communists during the Stalinist terror . |
| 12 | I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment , which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973 . |
| 13 | The six have admitted the charges , committed at a rented factory in Burn Road , Hartlepool . |
| 14 | One was to Adam Russell whom she arranged to meet at an Italian restaurant in Pimlico . |
| 15 | Its aim , according to Vice-President Al Gore , is to " ensure that environmental considerations are brought to bear at the earliest stages in the development of economic policy " . |
| 16 | NINE of 13 drug charges against a former tyre depot manager were dropped at the High Court in Aberdeen yesterday . |
| 17 | The nine-foot figure stands at a new development in Dockwray Square , North Shields , Stan Laurel 's home for 10 years . |
| 18 | It covers the upper part of the body and consists of bands of semicircular scales all pointing upwards , ending at the lower edge in a belt from which hangs a broad piece of pleated cloth . |
| 19 | Tell the candidate what is happening at the next stage in the selection and/or the date when you will be letting people know your decision . |
| 20 | He peered at the tangled convulsions in the Daemon card . |
| 21 | Peroxidase conjugated sheep anti-mouse immunoglobulins ( Amersham ) were added at a 1/2000 dilution in PBSB-Tween and incubated for 1 hour at room temperature . |
| 22 | The statue is late Roman , the head of ( it is assumed ) Archbishop Adelmanno having been added at a later stage in what was believed to have been tenth-century style . |
| 23 | They stopped at the biggest hotel in the town , and went in to their rooms . |
| 24 | When the train stopped at the all-too-active battlefield in the frozen wastes of the Siberian-Manchurian border , her only hope was to walk back along the railway track to the previous station : |
| 25 | He smiled without humour when Frankie sucked at the soap-filled cloth in order to sluice the taste of rancid beck-water from his mouth . |
| 26 | Brian Edwards looks at a handsome solution in central Glasgow — the Eagle Building |
| 27 | When you press the Enter key , DOS looks at the first word in the string of characters you 've typed in and compares it to a list of command names stored in the file called COMMAND.COM . |
| 28 | The opening chapter uses a slightly different method and looks at the greatest variable in improving — namely ourselves , since the way we approach and react to learning greatly affects the end result . |
| 29 | In the first of his ‘ State of Grace ’ reports he looks at the current crises in the Kirk . |
| 30 | This month Cathy Bryan looks at the best buys in sandpits and paddling pools |