Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The professor 's secretary , who is wearing fluffy aquamarine slippers , asks me to wait at the end of a blank corridor . |
| 2 | Much of the writing about television fiction seems to me to remain at the level of elementary genres , grounded in the dominance of the semantic aspect , with relatively little analytic or historical attention to the ‘ verbal ’ ( style , mise-en-scene ) or the ‘ syntactic ’ ( narrative structure ) : there is very little close textual analysis of television fiction , and there is no scholarly history of the development of television form to compare with the histories which have emerged of early cinema . |
| 3 | The Wellenkuppe summit , a white notch against a blue sky , was only five minutes away up an easy snow slope , but almost everyone stopped at the top of the rock pitch for a second breakfast . |
| 4 | Oh right , so let me know at the end of the week . |
| 5 | Something made me linger at the bottom of the grand staircase , near the bust of Unamuno , pretending to read some notices about student societies . |
| 6 | The question I pose is the one that I asked at the beginning of my speech : do those in government and opposition have the courage to set about creating a new beginning to bring about peace , political stability , and an end to the tensions between Ireland and Britain , and can they bring the beginnings of hope for my constituents and the people in the north of Ireland ? |
| 7 | I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years . |
| 8 | I gazed at the devastation from behind a stone horsetrough , lying flat on my face as another explosion sent lumps of metal and cobblestones clattering on to the roofs of the farm buildings . |
| 9 | I gazed at the picture of the crocodile pool and all I could think of to say was , did the gallery owner give you a discount because you 're a friend of Robert 's ? |
| 10 | The fact that the position is more complicated , however , should be obvious if we remind ourselves of the point I made at the beginning of Chapter 2 : how variable teachers are . |
| 11 | However , that leaves the galleries open to pressure , when they come to the Minister and make points such as that which I made at the beginning of my speech — saying , for instance , that last year the Tate gallery could buy only one work of art . |
| 12 | If , bearing in mind the theory of society and superego development so far advanced in this book , we now turn our attention back to the analysis of modern culture outlined in the article from which I quoted so extensively in the chapter before last , we can see that the following remarks , also from that article , take on a much greater significance in the light of the point which I made at the conclusion of the last regarding the lack of a culturally determined latency period among the Australian aborigines : |
| 13 | As I announced at the end of the trial , I am immediately doing two things . |
| 14 | I do n't mean poor supervisors , I mean at every level of management . |
| 15 | I mean at the moment of choice you 're faced with a set of people , including , let's say , one man and one woman , who on paper match each other and who perhaps , even if you 've adjusted for a possibility of the woman 's having to fight and so on , they 're equal on paper . |
| 16 | They are political constraints , particularly with the U N , they are political ones when one considers government to government aid , I mean at the moment for instance the British Administration will only give large , significant amounts of emergency relief to countries which are already recipients of British development aid . |
| 17 | I mean at the end of the day it becomes subjective , like choosing wallpaper . |
| 18 | I mean at the end of the year , we need to have sold a Because these people , they need to come for funding purposes . |
| 19 | I realised at the beginning of 1992 that we were not core and that we were to be disposed of — we had a very difficult year . ’ |
| 20 | A police graduate I met at a seminar on ‘ Research into the Police ’ , which we had both attended in a private capacity and without force blessing or financial assistance , later wrote to me : |
| 21 | A girl I met at a party on Saturday night . ’ |
| 22 | In any case , I sit at the stall during daytime . ’ |
| 23 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
| 24 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
| 25 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
| 26 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
| 27 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues . |
| 28 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
| 29 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
| 30 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |