Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want to give the children positive memories which they can draw on during the difficult times at home to build a better country . |
| 2 | Do you feel that it 's pointing the right way , bringing the sun in through the right windows at the right time of day ? |
| 3 | Back home , he dreamt , he filled the whole flat with buckets of earth , even filled soup dishes and the kettle and the wineglasses with soil , and spent hours watering them and moving them carefully around every day , carrying them from room to room so that they would be struck in turn by whatever sunshine came in through the different windows at different times of the day , making sure they were kept warm . |
| 4 | Then he staggered off the pavement into the street , throwing a glance down towards the brighter lights at the junction . |
| 5 | Mr Grey 's enthusiasm and energy for the entrepreneurial challenge was contagious , but one could nevertheless feel a good few heels digging in among the bookselling purists at the idea of running a hairdresser . |
| 6 | They looked like some great beast with gaping mouth and hungry eyes , then I caught a movement over near the great elms at the far side of the common . |
| 7 | The left transfer tool is getting ready to cross the left stitches over to the empty needles at the right . |
| 8 | Taking my leave , I headed off for the developing tanks at my studio . |
| 9 | Shell Expro 's main office at Altens and the head office of Elf Caledonia at Bridge of Don also had to be cleared after a warning to the police that bombs would go off at the four sites at 9am . |
| 10 | Shell Expro 's main office at Altens and the head office of Elf Caledonia at Bridge of Don also had to be cleared yesterday after a warning to the police that bombs would go off at the four sites at 9am . |
| 11 | I lined up for the 100 metres at the AAA Championships and , lo and behold , everybody came out in similar outfits ! |
| 12 | Benny walked slowly up towards the high seats at the back where she thought she might be more inconspicuous . |
| 13 | By the time we caught up with the three men at the top of the ladder , they were attempting to heave the coffin into its grotto with a series of hefty swings which caused a wave-motion to be generated in the ladder , very nearly sending us all to the ground sixty feet below . |
| 14 | and this afternoon the Gloucester coach was weighing up his team 's next opponents … tomorrow at Kingsholm the cherry and whites take on the South African Barbarians … a team bristling with international talent … they were warming up on the playing fields at Wycliffe School in Stonehouse … |
| 15 | I never seemed to be sort of up to the other scholars at all . |
| 16 | That is to say we are , we all need renewal and new ideas , but we stick to old quarrels and re-run old battles because we do n't know how to face up to the real problems at the present , nor to find ways of working together for a worthwhile future . |
| 17 | Just the splendid staircase leading up to the three doorways at the entrance and above that the tall windows of the first floor gallery , all open to the sky , gazing on emptiness . |
| 18 | Neighbours looked up at the dark windows at night and wondered what could be hidden there , under dust sheets . |
| 19 | The joint declaration was based on a 14-page draft document drawn up by the participating countries at a preparatory meeting in Bolivia on Jan. 10 [ see p. 37182 ] . |
| 20 | He looked out through the open shutters at the grey January sky over the strait , where the islands had vanished in frosty mist . |
| 21 | DAVE SEXTON , the England Under-21 manager , is prepared to search for friendly fixtures if his side fall out of the European Championships at the qualifying stage for the first time in 12 years . |
| 22 | We recognise the anomalies and obstacles with which CCW has had to contend , and support its efforts to weld an effective and influential organisation out of the raw materials at its disposal . |
| 23 | It is an exhilarating walk to the Point , where the cliffs tower to a height of 300 feet , but the great feature that tempts motorists from their cars is a spectacular detached column of rock that rises 200 feet out of the angry waves at its base . |
| 24 | Routine maintenance work is often carried out in the early hours at the centre when workmen can avoid causing disruption to shoppers . |
| 25 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 26 | The move means that the league and the end of season play-offs now need sponsorship as the company will bow out at the British Championships at Wembley in April . |
| 27 | Cross these two over , placing the two stitches from the left on to the two empty needles at the right , finally place the remaining two stitches on to the two needles at the left . |
| 28 | He emerged with the trophies for Scottish Lorry Driver of the Year and will go on to the national finals at Telford in Shropshire . |
| 29 | He emerged with the trophies for Scottish Lorry Driver of the Year and will now go on to the national finals at Telford in Shropshire . |
| 30 | Ernest Long summarised the change snappily in his note to the Authority 's accountant when they were working out the implications in 1954 : ‘ instead of being messed about by the long-haired boys at the Treasury we are now dealt with by the Finance boys — and we much prefer it that way ’ . |