Example sentences of "[that] [noun] [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | His expression was inscrutable , but his hands were clenched so tightly into fists that Meredith marvelled at the man 's ability to keep the muscles of his face so impassive . |
2 | It is the more remarkable that Pound , no more than any one else for fifty years after Hardy died , pondered the Virgilian epigraph that Hardy put at the head of his ‘ Poems of 1912–13 ’ , originally in Satires of Circumstance , ( London , 1914 ) . |
3 | This unique video shows all the build up to the World Angling Championship in 1990 , the practice sessions , discussions , the work which ensures that England remain at the top of the world . |
4 | This was the very first painting that Artemesia completed at the age of 17 . |
5 | all that proved to me is , is that Helen the board , the examination board that Helen did at the college , she said it was a much , a much better exam to do than it was at |
6 | Although it is true to say that Lizzie felt at the start very much under her mother 's shadow and in any case was naturally of a rather shy disposition — she was coaxed into recording quite early on in her career ; indeed , her voice can be heard ( singing Far Over the Forth ) on the same 1953 School of Scottish Studies tape devoted to her just-discovered mother . |
7 | A letter to Peter Davall Esqr. in the Temple , London , written 1753 and read a year later , points out that seeds exhibited at the Society did not fit the description of a particular species of Bauhinia . |
8 | You are the English guest that madame has at the farm , n'est-ce pas ? |
9 | It may also be observed from ( 15.10 ) that difficulties occur at the points . |
10 | For it was in 1833 that Owen appeared at the London Co-operative Congress to advocate the creation of the Grand Moral Union of the Productive Classes . |
11 | Gin , we are told , is one of the purest spirits made , and juniper berries , the baies de genièvre or ginepro from which Geneva or gin derived its name , provide the characteristic flavouring which everyone who ever drank a glass of gin in their lives would recognize when he tastes the juniper-berry flavour in Provençal game terrines and certain Northern Italian sauces and stuffings for partridge and pheasant ; and eau de vie de genièvre is a spirit used in French and Belgian Ardennais regional cooking , so it seems extraordinary that people blanch at the suggestion that gin should go into the casseroles . |
12 | In a review of ‘ Seven Americans ’ , a group show that Stieglitz organised at the Anderson Galleries in 1925 ( in which examples of O'Keeffe 's enlarged flower paintings were first seen ) , critic Margaret Breuning wrote : |
13 | The product sounds exactly like a sketch that Amstrad issued at the launch of the PDA , and which was described as a possible future direction . |
14 | He also interprets St Paul 's teaching to the Colossians ( 3:3 ) in these terms : His evocation of a silent darkness at the heart of which the soul is alive only in faith and expectant longing , combines the same sense of both end and beginning that Rolle creates at the end of his shorter Passion meditation when the process of penance linked with the stages of the Crucifixion concludes in the darkness of the entombment — a darkness which in the pattern of Incarnation is the prelude to dawn and Resurrection . |
15 | ‘ When you 're a bit stronger , I 'll drive you over there each time he calls me in , ’ he said , and Joanna looked at him so gratefully that tears burned at the back of Sophie 's eyes . |
16 | What was equally extraordinary was that Baldwin jumped at the idea . |
17 | Yet it must be confessed that obscurities persist at the centre of this vision of the law . |
18 | Children would not be a natural product of such a union , so that objections directed at the welfare and support of a family would not apply . |
19 | We said no , I , I , I 'm doing everything that table says at the moment , so no , but I 'm going to give one to Shirley because she got most of the answer and then she came back with the right bit at the end as well . |
20 | We said no , oh , I , I , I 'm doing everything that table says at the moment , so no , but I 'm going to give one to Shirley because she got most of the answer and then she came back with the right bit at the end as well . |
21 | It was the authority–s policy , and an implied term of the applicant 's contract of employment , that employees retired at the age when they became entitled to draw the state retirement pension , this being aged 65 for a man and 60 for a woman . |