Example sentences of "[to-vb] at the [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnny , as though realizing for the first time that he was still wearing his pyjama trousers , began to worry at the knot in the cord at his waist , the trembling of his hands causing him to fumble ineffectively . |
| 2 | A more fundamental design fault is the positioning of our noses above our mouths , which requires our food and air passages to meet at the back of the throat , an arrangement which exists because the nostril in fish is not a breathing passage , but an opening to a chemical sense organ . |
| 3 | It may be difficult or impossible to establish at the date of the sale the value of the pension rights to be transferred . |
| 4 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 5 | If the video is to end with music though , you should arrange for the last note to come at the end of the last shot . |
| 6 | On Monday 27 February Fleischmann and Pons were due to bring their working cell to Brigham Young University for the neutron spectrum to be measured , but a graduate student had to go to a funeral and so they suggested it would be better to come at the end of the week instead . |
| 7 | I squeezed my way out to find at the foot of the cathedral steps the white helmets of a military band celebrating Easter state-style , surrounded by the boy soldiers of Peru in grey , black and khaki , armed with machine-guns . |
| 8 | ‘ Look : I ca n't say this strictly , as a scientist , but it is my feeling that a bonfire , grilling a kipper or lighting a cigarette all release greater concentrations of dioxins than you 'd be likely to find at the end of the pipe of a properly run high-temperature incinerator . ’ |
| 9 | Now , being left-handed I 'm well used to the pitfalls : reading reviews of great-looking and top quality guitars only to find at the end of the review , ‘ No left-handers available ’ or , more niggling , ‘ 10% extra ’ . |
| 10 | Mark Benson won the toss for Kent and , as is customary these days , put Hampshire in But 11 o'clock on a July morning is very different from 10.30am in September and , while it was cloudy , there was nothing like the assistance the bowlers will expect to find at the start of the NatWest Trophy final later in the year . |
| 11 | ‘ Madame used to stand at the gate to the pavillon , looking down the lane into the rue Victorie , in the belief that Montaine 's absence could be accounted for . |
| 12 | Penry Vaughan ducked his tall head through the doorway and moved to stand at the foot of the bed in the shadows beyond the arc of light from the small lamp . |
| 13 | to stand at the door of the rec of an estate agent |
| 14 | She continued to stand at the edge of the plateau . |
| 15 | The man moved to stand at the top of the stairs , barring their way , and then he recognized the young man . |
| 16 | Of many , in summertime we always used to stand at the top of the yards , you know , men and women . |
| 17 | A few years back each golfer used his own collection of chipped and misshapen balls and the caddies were expected to stand at the end of the practice area and collect them . |
| 18 | We had to pick the bind out by hand , er the coal was all er sorted on the screens and er er a u u us lads , we used to stand at the side of the belts that were travelling round and tipping the coal into the wagons down below you see ? |
| 19 | Yeah , well she used to work at the station in the offices . |
| 20 | Fourthly , Woolwich was not , of course , to know at the time of the payments that it would succeed in the judicial review proceedings . |
| 21 | Fourthly , Woolwich was not , of course , to know at the time of the payments that it would succeed in the judicial review proceedings . |
| 22 | If the petitioning creditor fails to appear at the hearing of the petition , it would seem that the petition must be dismissed and no subsequent petition by the same creditor can be presented in respect of the same debt without the leave of court ( r 6.26 ) . |
| 23 | After an anterior myocardial infarct there is a tendency for the heart to bulge at the site of the damaged muscle . |
| 24 | Before the Appellate Committee Mr. Nicholls submitted , on behalf of the Swedish government , that in committal proceedings in this country the same test is applicable as in the case of a submission by the defendant of no case to answer at the end of the prosecution evidence at his trial . |
| 25 | Any respondent may make a submission of no case to answer at the conclusion of the applicant 's evidence . |
| 26 | The picture forces the viewer to wonder at the subject of the crowd 's attention . |
| 27 | Later Lisa was to wonder at the power of the sensations that swept in on her and possessed her at that moment . |
| 28 | As it was er quite late on a Sunday evening I did in fact take the opportunity to listen at the door of the flat in question . |
| 29 | All full-time employees ( ie those having a normal working week of 20 hours or more , or 25 hours for directors ) who are with the Company or any of its subsidiaries which the Directors have decided will participate , and who have at least two years ' service to complete before retirement , may be eligible to participate at the discretion of the Directors . |
| 30 | It was arranged that they should get the express train from Hanover in order to open at the Folies-Bergère on the very evening of their arrival . |