Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought that maybe Elsie went under finally sickened and stifled by the righteous attitudes that prevailed at the time . |
| 2 | There can be no logical distinction between that case and looking at the draft Bill to see that the statute as enacted reproduced , often in the same words , the provision in the Law Commissions 's draft . |
| 3 | Donna licked her tongue across her dry lips and stopped at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 4 | We can go this afternoon and look at the King 's Road . " |
| 5 | Lives have been ruined because people have read the wrong books or looked at the wrong pictures . |
| 6 | In 1880 he became a deacon of the Episcopal Church in Scotland ; in 1881 he was ordained priest and served at the church of St John the Evangelist , Edinburgh . |
| 7 | She walked a few feet and stabbed at the earth with the fork . |
| 8 | Glance at the sentences and memorize the next few phrases and look at the audience while you are speaking . |
| 9 | The general climate of gradual relaxation of constraints against foreign ownership that prevailed at the end of the decade has probably extended to the Chinese and the smaller Indian local population . |
| 10 | Not only was the advent of computing perhaps rather longer and more protracted than in some other disciplines , but invariably it is the case that the very nature of computer application in history is rather different , and it is this difference that lies at the root of the oncoming problem . |
| 11 | His expected duration of unemployment is 12.9 weeks as calculated at the average values of benefits , earnings and extra income . |
| 12 | There are also bugs on the glass , which are mainly free swimming and congregate at the top of the water . |
| 13 | Bob , the old bum that sleeps at the bus station , just stared . |
| 14 | It is this concept that lies at the back of R. P. A. Edwards ' attack on dial-access retrieval systems : |
| 15 | ‘ And we 'll come back to this room some day and laugh at the days when we all thought it would be so dreadful . ’ |
| 16 | Oddly enough , at the end of the 205 hours the subjects claimed that they could go on longer , that after the fifth day things had got easier , and indeed offered to stay awake for another day if paid at the ninth day 's rate . |
| 17 | Everybody reacted as one , condemning this nonsense and laughing at the bare-faced cheek of it . |
| 18 | Now the trick of course is to buy at the cheapest price or sell at the most expensive . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There are also the exciting poses that come at the end of some of Ashton 's pas de deux as the two characters declare their love , for example , when Oberon cradles Titania in his arms at the end of The Dream and , even more excitingly , when Colas lifts Lise high on one arm it the end of their dance in Act II of La Fille Mai Gardée as if to crown her queen of the harvest |
| 21 | It is this conundrum that lies at the very heart of the Section 28 debate — not to mention Labour 's problems with it . |
| 22 | He threw himself down on the huge old bed and stared at the sloping timber ceiling . |
| 23 | Last week he announced that he was to undertake a radical review of public spending and to look at the ‘ nitty gritty ’ of the welfare state . |
| 24 | Shelley changed into a fresh dress and stood at the door of the villa . |
| 25 | They are quite unlike radio waves since radio waves can travel in empty space and move at the speed of light ( 300 million metres per second — equivalent to approximately seven circuits of the earth in one second ) . |
| 26 | As I stood watching him for a few seconds and looking at the damage to his farm buildings and the dead and wounded cattle around the orchard , I thought to myself . |
| 27 | The other school of thought on hypnosis emphasises the special social situation that lies at the core of hypnosis . |
| 28 | She felt the coolness of the fresh glass and looked at the stranger who stood beside her once more . |
| 29 | But in terms of his public image as seen at the time , he had been careful to distance himself from the unpopular anti Jewish terror of the Nazi mobs and had placed himself on the side of legality . |
| 30 | I in turn thanked him for his careful encouragement and support at the various stages of the project . |