Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] at the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone in Twin Peaks , from the policeman who cries at the scene of a crime to the lady who appears in certain scenes inexplicably carrying a log , is well , a little weird . |
| 2 | What a wonderful vision the lady who lives at the top of our road shared with us all ! |
| 3 | Met the lady who lives at the top of our road who shared the vision on Sunday night . |
| 4 | The one who lives at the end of the village . |
| 5 | To paraphrase Mr Polly , it 's only school that turns the young child from someone who wonders at the marvels around him or her into someone who sees them only in terms of history and geography . |
| 6 | ‘ We have a saying in my country , ‘ for him who stands at the top of the tower there is no other season but winter . ’ |
| 7 | Here is an example of an impro exercise for two actors : ‘ An actor is asked to assume the character of a close family friend who arrives at the house with the news of the death of the wife 's husband in an accident . |
| 8 | Only the orphan until the final chapter , when even she would sit by a warm fire , rescued at last from a cruel world and adult depredations by the long-lost loving parent who waits at the end of every unhappy child 's rainbow . |
| 9 | And , finally , for everyone who groans at the idea of a twice-weekly exercise class , what about trying toning tables ? |
| 10 | It is in accordance with such optimism that Euripides should have turned the suffering hero of earlier tragedy into a dialectician and the transcendental justice of Aeschylus into the " poetic justice " dispensed by the deus ex machina who appears at the end of so many of his plays . |
| 11 | Producer-director Arne Glimcher had tapped him for the role after catching his performance in Pedro Almodóvar 's Matador , in which he plays a melancholic bullfighter wannabe who faints at the sight of blood and gets dizzy watching clouds . |
| 12 | It is God who rejoices at the repentance of a sinner , just as the father rejoices at the return of the prodigal son . |
| 13 | A nurse who trains at the age of forty still has many years of valuable service ahead and many years of past experience to draw upon . |
| 14 | A WOMAN who marries at the age of 42 has a better chance of success than when she was 23 . |
| 15 | The Aussie , who leaves at the end of this season to head the Auckland assault on Australia 's Winfield Cup competition , insists playing standards have improved dramatically in his time . |
| 16 | This mechanically manic installation-cum-excursion is the work of Steve Barry , a New York trained artist who teaches at the University of New Mexico . |
| 17 | Chairman Sir Bryan Nicholson , who retires at the end of they year , promised that letter prices would be frozen until April . |
| 18 | With unemployment around 300,000 , the highest rate in the EC , consumers are very nervous about the future , says Frank Young , managing director of Wilson Hartnell Advertising , a doyen of the industry , who retires at the end of this month . |
| 19 | Springfields-based Dr Sue Ion has been appointed Director of technology Development to succeed Dr Harry Allardice who retires at the end of August . |
| 20 | Thirty-six-year-old Mr Peter Rowley succeeds Mr Alan Wood , aged 62 , who retires at the end of next month after 21 years in the job . |
| 21 | Mr Tholen , who retires at the end of this month as chairman of Darlington Health Authority , is a dapper man of 67 who is never seen without a carnation in his lapel except , he says , when he is shooting or flying . |