Example sentences of "[adv] at [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donna sat in the sitting-room , glancing endlessly at the sheets of paper they 'd picked up from the bank that day and also at the notes Ward had left . |
| 2 | " Eyes front ! " he screamed suddenly at the men before us. " 'eft 'ight , 'eft 'ight ! " |
| 3 | Nevertheless , this is an excellent , aggressive account of the Allegro , albeit with a little too much from the timpanist , especially at the ends of rolls where he insists on drawing attention to himself . |
| 4 | Best played as a team game with the class , especially at the ends of days , weeks or terms . |
| 5 | In February 1952 , The Musical Express bade farewell to its readers with a final issue that blazed proudly on its cover ‘ Tommy Dorsey For Olympic Games ’ , the accompanying story telling of how bandleader Dorsey and his orchestra had been booked to play for four hours daily at the games in Finland that summer . |
| 6 | The two boys stood looking down at the heaps of feathers . |
| 7 | But I wanted to feel my spine tickle and my pulses beat , and my hair stir gently at the roots with suspense as that voice cried out from somewhere near our drawing room curtains . |
| 8 | It should look not only at the responsibilities of Government , but at the contributions that others make : business , local authorities , NGOs and members of the public alike . |
| 9 | When he called in at the offices of Grubworthy and Sting , on his way through London , they were no less honest with him . |
| 10 | Twoflower padded over to the corner , poking gingerly at the stones in case there was a secret panel . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , however , the rich followed their king 's dictum ‘ Après moi , le déluge ’ , and gave themselves up to pleasure — balls , the opera ( where new works by Gluck , Grétry and Piccinni were finally displacing the heroic works of Lully and Rameau , beloved of the Ancien Régime ) , gambling and hunting ; the chattering middle classes were busy discussing politics and aesthetics ; writers such as Voltaire and Diderot were chipping away at the foundations of society with their radical ideas of universal fraternity in this ‘ Age of Enlightenment ’ ; and the poor were being told to ‘ eat cake ’ , if they had no bread . |
| 12 | Corrosion within heating systems gradually eats away at the insides of steel radiators to form iron oxides — the brown or black sludge that is so familiar to any d-i-y plumber . |
| 13 | Dave did n't bother to shave until the evenings , and Colin 's shoes had been coming away at the sides for weeks . |
| 14 | It is not just at the ends of words where compression methods can be applied . |
| 15 | It is not just at the ends of words where common letter sequences can make use of the same nodes in a tree structure . |
| 16 | If it does n't happen this year it 'll happen next spring you see , and of course er one lady who had been with her aunty er over in the Germany , she says when they went into , she knew they were accumulating theirs , she had some friends in Germany and of course they , she said they were hoarding up just at the borders of Poland I think it would be then . |
| 17 | In June after the export licence was finally granted ( following a lengthy fund-raising campaign to keep the cabinet in Great Britain ) , the cabinet was still at the restorers in London . |
| 18 | This conclusion should not be seen to reflect callous indifference to individuals who have suffered miserably or fatally at the hands of persons committing ‘ conventional ’ crimes ; their agony is real and should never be ignored . |
| 19 | The coroner , gazing longingly at the jugs of claret , was about to protest . |
| 20 | A FIREBOMB was defused by Army bomb disposal officers near Windsor Castle yesterday at the publishers of blood sports magazines . |
| 21 | The SEMI-finals were rounded off at the Woodlanders in Omagh . |
| 22 | Or should he sit back in his chair and smile calmly at the idiocies of mankind ? |
| 23 | Kegan looked up from the paper he had been reading and looked a little hopefully at the faces in front of him . |
| 24 | He came and stood behind her , staring over her shoulder at the screen , frowning darkly at the columns of figures displayed . |
| 25 | Such fears are probably misconceived and in the years that have elapsed since the mergers took place there is no reason to believe that art education has suffered unduly at the hands of engineers and scientists in senior positions in the polytechnics . |
| 26 | The opening day of the trial was to be devoted to legal arguments and Mr Beltrami , Moira , Meehan and myself turned up at the Courts of Justice to hear them . |
| 27 | See , up at the likes of Paisley 's there , [ name of policeman ] was desperate , he did n't read . |
| 28 | Research sections have been set up at the Institutes of Education in Kenya and Sierra Leone and there have been important regional conferences on educational evaluation ( at Dar es Salaam in April 1975 ) and on the growth of scientific and mathematical concepts in East African children ( Nairobi , September 1974 ) . |
| 29 | I cast one longing glance up at the cliffs of Coire Ardair , where the sun was glancing off the icy tips of gleaming rock , and I knew that next time I 'd get the sucker . |
| 30 | Maggie 's eyes are long and wide like certain nuts , and they turn up at the ends like maidens from Disney . |