Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not sure whether I will get a hot reception from the fans when I run out at Ayresome Park . |
| 2 | I had a strange sensation when , on an autumnal Friday afternoon , I turned up at Old Admiralty Building , to have a viva voce on my written evidence to the Falklands Inquiry . |
| 3 | In fact , I felt so wonderful that I glanced back at Old Red . |
| 4 | So thank you very much indeed , for coming , for addressing us , and we look forward I think both at national level and as you suggest , at local level with ever more valuable and productive relationships with the private sector , together with the other partners which , er , whom we need , and thank you for leading us along this |
| 5 | In all four clustered contractions were reported , which may or may not be related to swallowing , which may be peristaltic in nature , or which develop simultaneously at different levels of the oesophagus . |
| 6 | The NTV , with its headquarters in Lagos , had television stations in all nineteen state capitals which link up at certain times — especially for the main evening news bulletin — and have federally appointed management . |
| 7 | On our sail he pressure difference causes a driving force which acts roughly at right angles to the sail at its centre of effort . |
| 8 | The rock is also riddled with tunnels , some of which come out at secret entrances in the forest below . |
| 9 | This road forms the focus for an irregular network of side-streets and lanes which lead off at diverse angles and provide access to land and buildings behind the frontages . |
| 10 | It is a problem which comes up at various points in considering the relations between biology and human practices , and may be put in the following way : how is a phenotypic character which would present itself in other species as a behavioural tendency represented in a species which has a culture , language and conceptual thought ? |
| 11 | To some extent , this is engendered by the timing of college examinations , which occur only at long intervals . |
| 12 | Contestants who have finished relax with a drink or cheer on those struggling up the last stretch , some of them grasping frantically at disintegrating bales of straw . |
| 13 | Are you aware that you eat differently at certain times of the month and perhaps even crave sweet food when your period arrives ? |
| 14 | Safely out of the sight and sound of him , she gazed raptly at glossy brochures and debated the merits of sofa-beds over plain settees with all the enthusiasm Marie-Christine could have wished . |
| 15 | Anyway , she drove off at high speed , ignoring all senso unicos , and finally crashed into a bollard by the ospedale . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , I do hope that I 've done well , ’ Anne told Diana when she arrived back at Green Gables . |
| 17 | But when she arrived back at Green Gables , Anne knew at once that something was wrong . |
| 18 | Of course there are increasing numbers of hungry children in Peru who stare mistrustfully at camera-laden gringos ( white tourists ) , but your front cover does nothing towards providing an image of either the anger and creativity of Peruvian people , nor the barbaric economic situation that has been imposed upon their country by the current world economic order , both of which are well described within the issue . |
| 19 | An important working library on South-East Asia and much modern French literature has come to us by bequest of M. Jacques Dauphin , father of our former Lady Carlisle Research Fellow , Dr. Claudine Dauphin ; we owe special thanks to Dr. Dauphin and the army of Somervillian and non-Somervillian friends who helped transport this large collection of books across the Channel , and to Ann Raynes who stepped in at short notice to deliver the last consignment from London to Oxford . |
| 20 | The noise of music did not reach this far , but the voices of the women , who chattered away at full blast , were just as loud . |
| 21 | Crellin , who took over at promoted Leigh from sacked Kevin Ashcroft this summer , said : ‘ I have resigned because of boardroom interference . ’ |
| 22 | As Pottz said , ‘ Anyone who paddles out at big Pipe and says he 's not scared is either lying or crazy . ’ |
| 23 | Children who perform differently at different times of day may be reacting to a changed quantity or quality of lighting level . |
| 24 | What are the cargoes we pick up at short notice and deliver to out-of-the-way ports in Africa ? |
| 25 | We stopped twice at primitive tea-houses , the only buildings we saw in over eighty miles of desert . |
| 26 | Oh goodness yes , wh we if we dredged up , we 'd have a say a piece of on deck , we used to land them on deck until we got room , so we came up at Upper Dock . |
| 27 | Nowadays , when we look back at old photographs and films of the 1950s rock and roll craze , and the Teddy Boys , it is easy to wonder what all the fuss was about . |
| 28 | And I 'd also like to come back on this of closed schools in that if we look only at chronological age , which puts a limit on ‘ O ’ levels , we are shutting doors , because many students — and I see this in the sixth form — are not ready for these examinations at the prescribed age . |
| 29 | • Tell your friends when you 'll be working and ask them to call round at other times instead . |
| 30 | " And let it be said , " Harry went on , " now we 're talking straight , that Miss Jennifer here can forget all the Romish ideas she was fed on down at Roscarrock Hall and start eating Protestant pie , which she 'll find suits a Cornish stomach a sight better than all that hocus-pocus-nomminy-domminy rubbish they peddle down at Holy Joe 's . |