Example sentences of "[verb] at a [adj] [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | On April 6 Parys had claimed at a televised meeting with army officers that politicians were preparing to use the army for " political intrigues " , offering officers promotion in return for their support . |
| 2 | Seconds later , they were installed at an umbrella-shaded table with the little boy sitting in state alongside . |
| 3 | This miraculous event caused Massaccio immediately to repent his past life , and he became a Benedictine monk , dying at a great age with the reputation of having led a saintly life in his chosen monastery . |
| 4 | Cardiff looked up then at the Constable , still dabbing at a fresh nosebleed with his now-crimson handkerchief . |
| 5 | After rounding the imposing sheer cliff face of Seelisberg , it is rather surprising when the boat draws inshore to moor at a little pier with no sign of village or community in sight . |
| 6 | I wander across to where ‘ young ’ Howard ( 58 ) is sitting slumped at an isolated table with his wife and Alan Watkins , their backs turned on the glittering throng . |
| 7 | But he had also hinted at a sexual relationship with one of his American university professors , and with the editor of a certain American music magazine , with whom he had spent a vacation in Hairi . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ One is looking at a young man with monstrously abnormal behaviour . |
| 9 | It left Kite looking at a five-shot deficit with 18 holes to play today . |
| 10 | The third criterion for recognition is that the item can be measured at a monetary amount with sufficient reliability . |
| 11 | I moved along past the drawings to look at a blurred water-colour with a wild smudge of cobalt in the centre . |
| 12 | With a lot at stake for both sides the game began at a frantic pace with a goal arriving at each end in the first ten minutes . |
| 13 | The game was played at a hectic pace with chances at both ends right to the final whistle . |
| 14 | It was unfortunate that , just when he had quelled a great deal of internal disorder and was aiming at a profitable alliance with the Lancastrians during the Wars of the Roses , he chose as a grand gesture to drive out the English garrison still holding Roxburgh castle , only to be killed when one of his own bombards exploded . |
| 15 | Bona fide NVOCC 's , on the other hand , feel that they operate at a competitive disadvantage with regard to unscrupulous NVOCC 's which seem able to disregard the 1984 Shipping Act with impunity . |
| 16 | As growing organisms incorporate radio-carbon and after death of the organism the trapped radio-carbon begins to decay at a known rate with half lost after 5730 years , it is possible to indicate when death occurred . |
| 17 | My year between school and university was about as creative as the period Terry Waite spent in captivity staring at a concrete wall with only his postcard of John Bunyan for reading matter , but I did spend the first few weeks of it in the typing class of a comprehensive school in Hackney . |
| 18 | One morning , Santa found him lying down on the snow , staring at a dead flower with tears dropping off his little cheeks . |
| 19 | In a dialect poem of 1730 on the West Riding the master clothier and his wife appear breakfasting at a common table with their family , a few journeymen , servants and apprentices before setting down to weave together from " five at morn till eight at neet " . |
| 20 | The first sighting of Filden I by Venturous was in a position six miles off Dunkirk from where she was shadowed at a discreet distance with radio reports of her movements being sent at regular intervals by Venturous to the shore watchers in the vicinity of North Foreland . |
| 21 | All excess grass was dried and cubed at a local factory with the cubes forming an important part of the winter diet . |
| 22 | Even she was surprised at Gedge 's tenacious loyalty to her ideology when she called at a local shop with him . |
| 23 | The complex bid to offer pricing system British investors are expected to understand should be replaced by a system where unit trusts or ‘ mutual funds ’ deal at a single price with any charges clearly added , it is argued . |
| 24 | I was involved at an abstract level with the struggles of the Vietnamese and the Palestinians far away , or the miners ( in 1974 ) nearer home . |
| 25 | The failure of the ITC to arrive at a negotiated settlement with its creditors , who claimed that they were owed a total of £513 million , led to a protracted battle in English courts [ see pp. 35293 ; 36635 ] . |
| 26 | They were seated at a small table with a red checked cloth surmounted by a clean one of starched white linen , with two glass beakers , two knives and two forks , and a basket of the most delicious freshly baked bread . |
| 27 | The design and printing of the posters should be discussed at an early date with the Cartographic Unit . |
| 28 | Some time later I heard a chink of glass and looked up to find Dennis sitting at a nearby table with a half-empty bottle of chilled rosé . |
| 29 | She was sitting at a littered table with two noisy West Indians in colourful pullovers and a jaded , almost middle-aged fat lady with a fur coat . |
| 30 | When they rise to an equal level , like for instance if I have a choice between going to a woman doctor and a man doctor and they 're both on the GP list , I will choose the woman , because the woman has had to fight tooth and nail , probably , and work much harder , to get at an equal level with the man , so I would suspect that I 'm getting value for and quality there by going for the woman . |