Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] the [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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1 | You can use several Pump Wagons together , or advance them with chariots or big monsters , but their random move means you ca n't rely on them to hit the enemy at the same time . |
2 | They 're teaching them to pull the trigger at the Academy of Marksmanship . |
3 | I flung the accusation at the smiling Agrippa . |
4 | It , it is a serious problem , I mean the area at the moment between east of Saltdean , erm Telscombe Cliffs , erm through to the east end of Peacehaven , is in the process of being protected by a seawall and an undercliff walk , rather like the area from erm Black Rock in Brighton through to Saltdean , because the rate of retreat of the cliffs there was so great erm that it would very shortly be threatening the houses on the clifftop at Peacehaven , so that erm a lot of money 's having to be spent to stop the erosion of the cliffs along that stretch . |
5 | . Er and I got the job at the Centre in August . |
6 | And after I got the job at the centre , erm that took up a lot of time for er a few weeks till I settled down . |
7 | ‘ I tried the bell at the front , ’ Pete said as they went in through a whitewashed scullery . |
8 | I 'm just saying there was mine was Tech , I expect the college at the old college . |
9 | I used the worksheet at the top of the next column . |
10 | I entered the barn at the corner of the farmyard . |
11 | I told the guard at the reception desk in the dark , grim entrance why I had come and he told me to wait . |
12 | I paid the woman at the cash desk and smiled at her . |
13 | SINCE I joined the Company at the beginning of October I 've visited several locations and met most people at the Key Street office . |
14 | George Pittendrigh and I joined the organisation at the same time in the grey austere years after the war . |
15 | I opened the door at the top of the steps and went in . |
16 | I enjoyed the contrast at the Club , the jollity round the pool , the quietness of the airy room near the Artemis bar where people read or played cards , the shady walkways where nine gardeners work hard with hose and hoe keeping the bougainvillea brilliant and the geraniums glowing . |
17 | But , certainly , I like the shapes , I like the diamond shape of this wall here , the , and I like the tree at the back . |
18 | If I was n't an animal-lover there would have been no problem , but when it comes to catching pigeons I draw the line at the fish-hook method on humanitarian grounds . |
19 | In 1987 I spent the summer at the college on the Intermediate Command Course and found it depressing to see just how little research was being sponsored or carried out there . |
20 | I remember the performance at the 1982 Salzburg Easter Festival . |
21 | Now I dislike the countryside at the height of summer , but that forest was bewitched . |
22 | I drive the minibus at the hospital |
23 | The other concern in the City Council 's evidence on H One er is this issue of distribution , I note Mr Davis 's comments about the difficulties of subdividing the Greater York allocation between different districts , and I I do acknowledge the difficulty in relation to Harrogate , and particularly Hambledon which obviously has a very small proportion of Greater York , on the other hand both Ryedale and Selby do contain a substantial proportion of the Greater York population , er based on my calculations of their er proportion of the population of Greater York which admittedly is a somewhat crude way of of doing estimates , but in the absence of of any other projections that was really the only way to do it , my estimate is that the er compared with the nine seven target of County Council would take in the could potentially be seen to be taking a share of four thousand two hundred in Ryedale and seventeen hundred for Selby , if you base it on their existing population distribution on er part outside the city , now I 'm not saying necessarily that 's how the way you would do it , but I I think it 's an indication that the scale of development in those two districts is quite significant in Greater York , our concern is that the policy as it currently stands does not give any real guidance as to the way in which distribution of development outside the city , but in Greater York , erm can be er should be di divided up , and I think the problem really occurs from the introduction of the new settlement into H One , erm I do n't want to stray into the H Two debate Chair , but I think it 's the fact that H One does include a figure for the new settlement , that the new settlement is not located within any particular district , but that all the district totals do include in effect a figure which is undetermined at this stage , that that would be absorbed by the new settlement , as I understand the policy at the moment , and I think that really does introduce a problem , erm because clearly all of the emerging districts wide local plans could be in conformity with the structure plan and not include the new settlement , I think it 's er interesting to note that the the D O E's recently published a good practice guide , on development plans , did particularly highlight the situation in Greater York , as a problem , as a shortcoming of the existing plan , and if I can just quote it , it does say this , on page forty three , it would seem appropriate for broad locations of new development to be established by means of an alteration to the structure plan . |
24 | I grabbed the handrail at the edge of the cable car . |
25 | In September Valentin Scweiglerand I represented the shop at the ‘ Day of Foreign Churches ’ here in Hamburg . |
26 | Then I saw the door at the end of the passage . |
27 | FOR TWO DAYS I WENT ABOUT RACKING MY BRAINS FOR A PLOT OF ANY SORT ; – ON THE SECOND NIGHT I DREAMED THE SCENE AT THE WINK ) W , AND A SCENE AFTERWARD SPLIT IN TWO , IN WHICH HYDEPURSUED FOR SOME CRIME , TOOK THE POWDER AND UNDERWENT THE CHANGE IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS PURSUERS . |
28 | But Trevor I thought the consensus at the start |
29 | Reluctantly , I attended the celebration at the Docherty suite , Titford , for Polymers Championship . |
30 | I leave the road at the first sight of Loch Arkaig and go across country , keeping to the paths through the bracken . |