Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at the [noun] of " 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 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 : |
| 12 | As I announced at the end of the trial , I am immediately doing two things . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I mean at the end of the day it becomes subjective , like choosing wallpaper . |
| 15 | I mean at the end of the year , we need to have sold a Because these people , they need to come for funding purposes . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | The man and I prodded at the pile of crap on the table . |
| 18 | Having failed dismally with a bicycle pump and an unidentified device that I found at the back of my Dad 's garden shed , I stumbled across what seemed like a promising routine and set aside the whole of Boxing Day to test it out . |
| 19 | In nineteen ninety S C F began its work providing facilities for prisoner 's families in Crumlin road in Belfast , Norwich prison , Strangeways and here in London 's Holloway prison for women which I visited at the beginning of June . |
| 20 | I hesitate at the top of the path . |
| 21 | For some writers concerned with English language teaching , the notion of rhythm is a more practical matter of making a sufficiently clear difference between strong and weak syllables , rather than concentrating on a rigid timing pattern , as I suggest at the end of 14.1 . |
| 22 | Someone grasped at the side of the cart as it went past , and Arkhina smashed his fingers with a hammer . |
| 23 | as it was published , she does make allowances , she says some of the statistics I upgraded at the publication of the book |
| 24 | This case is the first of the modern Court of Appeal authorities to which I referred at the beginning of this judgment . |
| 25 | What is important is the unequivocal , but in my respectful opinion wrong , statement of the law made by Viscount Dilhorne , at p. 632a ( to which I referred at the outset of my speech ) , that Parliament by omitting the words ‘ without the consent of the owner ’ from section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 ‘ has relieved the prosecution of the burden of establishing that the taking was without the owner 's consent . ’ |
| 26 | I come back finally to what I mentioned at the beginning of this chapter as the area of ‘ naturalism ’ more broadly conceived : that is to say , the question of founding human ethics on considerations of human nature , in some way which goes beyond merely respecting the limits , biological or other , on what human beings are able to do . |
| 27 | Structures of support between mothers and daughters are subject to all the individual variations which I mentioned at the beginning of this discussion , and at a more collective level , ethnic and cultural variation is very important , with some cultural traditions placing a less strong emphasis on this bond than does white Anglo-Saxon culture . |
| 28 | I mentioned at the start of this address that around the fire Joseph and Mary and their children would have gathered for fun and fellowship . |
| 29 | As I mentioned at the end of Chapter 1 , there is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopaedia Britannica , all 30 volumes of it , three or four times over . |
| 30 | I stopped at the Duke of Wellington — a scruffy corner boozer off Union Street — just long enough to buy two cheese rolls and a can of low-al lager to go . |