Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Do n't choose a colour for its safety , because it is acceptable , or sells well at the art society exhibition . |
2 | And the Mediterranean , the great pale green sea that sloshes away at the coastline of Phoenicia , this too still shaped our movements and our lives , provided the essential and unchanging link between that distant , unphotographed world of Roberts and the country in which I now lived . |
3 | There is a further reason that operates more at the level of values . |
4 | That 's the big fat thing that sticks out at the side down there . |
5 | Like Flynn before him , Fonda can not stay in the town he has tamed and rides out at the fade-out into the desert . |
6 | But she has this threatening jacket , a dark linen one which she can pop on over the Lycra , and it has big shoulders and big assertive buttons and nips in at the waist , and this means , ‘ Fun I may be , but business is business and I will rip your arms and legs off in the boardroom if you let me . ’ |
7 | Bob tips in a portion of hops at the start of the boil and adds more at the end for aroma . |
8 | ‘ Where a mercantile agent is , with the consent of the owner , in possession of goods or of the documents of title to goods , any sale , pledge or other disposition of the goods , made by him when acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent , shall , subject to the provisions of this Act be as valid as if he were expressly authorised by the owner of the goods to make the same ; provided that the person taking under the disposition takes in good faith , and has not at the time of the disposition notice that the person making the disposition has not authority to make the same . ’ |
9 | BLUE PLANET 's sensational photography explores continents and oceans , and looks too at the forces that influence our environment : storms , volcanoes , earthquakes , typhoons and , perhaps the most powerful of all , Mankind . |
10 | The trail continues to another section of forest at Mullaghfad , leading out of the forest onto a road and ends nearby at the Glenoo Bridge over the Colebrooke River on the boundary between Co Fermanagh and Co Tyrone . |
11 | The Volvo tour takes in solidly Socialist villages like Senghenydd and Abertridwr , includes a couple of detours for navigational error ( ‘ I 'm new here ’ says Stan ) and ends back at the station with just seconds before the train departs . |
12 | If the prey looks up and stares straight at the lion or tiger , the big cat looks sheepishly away as if suddenly indifferent to the whole business of predation . |
13 | She takes an exit at random and pulls up at the side of the road to consult her A to Z , but there are no street names visible which would enable her to orient herself . |
14 | I find this very difficult to erm , to relate , to relate hard work to the women portraying in , in this , we 've got the postcard of that one , erm it must of been hard work and very tedious , but I think every now and then the moment breaks away and shines through at the back , and I think people like , like Gaugin erm captures those moments and then releases them on the canvass , and I hope that erm by , I hope I 've been able to show you how I use art as a voice erm and a friend as my own work , even though we 've maybe had to do such a sort of hand fist way , hand fisted way , erm , but , I , I 've recently started to re-visit old favourite of paintings and I found that the story they tell sometimes has changed dramatically , maybe sometimes when your very little that , that , you know , sometimes dramatically as well , erm , but I , mostly , most importantly its , its still , I still find them , all of them compelling and challenging and , and something to stride for in my own work , erm , er only time will tell so I 'll finish with the , the last poem which is erm comes from the postcard what 's going round which is harvest , its called Patterns In The Grass , Wheat cut and falls , making lion head patterns in the grass , sickle shaped women bend and bow as a naive dressed as a dog steals the evening meal . |
15 | The bull lifts its head a little and gazes up at the Admiralty for some moments . |
16 | However , one major difference has been that the mind of an individual develops with time and becomes better at the tasks it undertakes , whereas computers , with certain limited exceptions , perform at the same level of ability until replaced by a better machine or a better program . |
17 | Its meaning is inadequately theorised and remains largely at the level of common sense , a crude alternative to the repressive order of work . |
18 | But this policy extend well beyond the IRA and strikes right at the heart of independent community organisations who are interested in seeing the people of the area take control of all aspects of their own lives , including their own work , wealth and education . |
19 | Maggie awaken from the damp heavy warmth of Ted 's body dead in sleep and the blankets piled on the single bed with a dip in the middle brushes her hair and clutches back at the ribbon of dreams from the night before . |
20 | In the end , of course , the theory is that the bird gets used to the food being there and comes back at the wag of a finger . |