Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Another sharp blast of heavy rain threw itself at the windowpanes of her flat , and brought Leith , startled , out of the brown study she had fallen into . |
| 32 | And of course the , with the boxes being all round the side , the dressing boxes , this was outmoded , we needed a building at the side , which there was sufficient room to build something at the side because we had a park at the side of it then . |
| 33 | However , Nottingham Forest find themselves at the foot of a Premier League where standards are low , largely due to a paucity of decent managers and where none have Clough 's breadth of knowledge and experience . |
| 34 | He figured it was worth a nickel to call me at the Globe , and he 's not a wasteful man . ’ |
| 35 | As one director put it at the time : ‘ I will not allow my social workers , one of whose core values is honesty , to go into people 's houses and behave in a fundamentally deceitful way ’ . |
| 36 | When the plaintiff presented himself at the theatre , the defendant , who was X 's servant and manager of the theatre , detected the plaintiff and refused to admit him . |
| 37 | The title track delivers the most catchy moments and it was a good ploy by the group to place it at the end of the tape . |
| 38 | It was n't the truth awaiting her at the château that she feared , but one much closer to home . |
| 39 | Their neighbours Lurgan will also be taking the road to Dublin , with CYM awaiting them at the end of the journey . |
| 40 | No matter what undercurrents had passed between them last night , it had been true enough that it was la Principessa who 'd sent her grandson to collect her at the Sala dell'Arte . |
| 41 | As soon as the basic tasks were finished , it was Jonadab 's custom to seat himself at the parlour table with a ledger and a leather drawstring bag full of money . |
| 42 | But another sister followed me at the Dowsons when I left to get married . |
| 43 | He could again ask parliament to put him at the head of the government . |
| 44 | Their landlord visited them at the flat to recover back rent . |
| 45 | The friend found one at a garage . |
| 46 | He had a two-stroke lead over playing partner Frost with two holes to play before the defending champion pipped him at the post with birdies on 17 and 18 . |
| 47 | Yet the main character says it at every opportunity — that , and ‘ silly old moi ’ . |
| 48 | Duke reckoned it at a mile and three-quarters ; the most conservative estimates put it at over a mile . |
| 49 | The tailor measured me at the height of the deluge . |
| 50 | And you 're also summoned that on that same occasion you not having given your name and address to any person requiring it at the time , you failed to report the accident at a police station , or to a constable as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case within twenty four hours of it happening again , that 's an offence under section twenty five of the road traffic act to that effect do you plead guilty or not guilty ? |
| 51 | Like the ecu note Europe has never had , the CFA-franc note can be used anywhere in the zone , and the French guarantee to convert it at a rate of 50 CFA francs to one French franc . |
| 52 | Such a despair seized him at the sound of his own acceptance that he made a half-hearted attempt even then to deliver himself . |
| 53 | Breath-taking flight simulation puts you at the joystick from biplane to helicopter . |
| 54 | AJR procedure incorporates certain procedural protections for public bodies and the rule that a claimant asserting public law interests can only use AJR procedure puts him at a disadvantage which is justifiable only on the assumption that public law interests do not matter as much as private law rights and , therefore , do not deserve as much legal protection . |
| 55 | The effect on listed adjoining properties , Donithorn , Riley House and er , the other one , the name escapes me at the moment , erm , and that it will give insufficient curbage to Riley House when er , whatever development takes place there . |
| 56 | I hardly know what I meant to do — confront him , accuse him , bring it home to him that hellfire awaited him at the reckoning if he did not confess his sin and pay the price of it now . ’ |
| 57 | In June 1915 my father commented : " I am coming to the conclusion that the heir to the throne of Solomon is at heart a Moslem and is entertaining dreams of one day putting himself at the head of the Mohammadan Abyssinians , and of producing a Moslem kingdom that will stretch far beyond the frontiers of his present Empire . " |
| 58 | On making a very despondent journey home my wife greeted me at the door with the astounding statement that the property had been found and handed into a branch of a building society and the member of the staff had telephoned to inform my wife that it was there to collect . |
| 59 | I remembered your instruction to join you at the Abbey of Holy Rood . |
| 60 | Her warm and wide smile greeted me at the door and I forgot for a while the riddles and innuendos which surrounded Brian Harley and hid the killer of Froggy Davies . |