Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The wind was blowing hard at the Highlanders ' faces , according to the literature given out at the Culloden Visitors ' Centre , and the two armies were in position at one o'clock , approximately four to five hundred yards apart .
2 Friends and colleagues past and present got together at the Brunswick Arms in Stamford Street to give him a big send off .
3 Preston and London East are already there ( CONGRATULATIONS ! ) and I know you have all been working hard to ensure the National Assessment goes well at the end of November .
4 The mare plunged gallantly at the hillside , but even the long rest in the dark cool wood had not restored her full strength .
5 The princess , in a royal purple suit-dress , pushed on in front to sign the visitors ' book while the prince wandered off at the end , leaving his wife in his wake .
6 Inside were two fairly small square rooms , one each side of the front door , with a roomy kitchen built on at the back .
7 It will be intriguing to see how Brecht 's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold .
8 Ushered in at last , passing through a spotless surgery agleam with modern equipment , and offered seats in an equally efficient-looking office , Sophie 's heart jerked suddenly at the sight of the man who was holding out his hand .
9 Nails screeched and popped , and the board juddered away at the bottom as something outside slammed against the wood .
10 As his hands moved slowly from her ankles along the planes of her calves to the rounded contours of her thighs Paige 's heart beat faster at every inch he revealed .
11 His long hair stopped neatly at the level where it curved most attractively , but his shave was indifferent .
12 She was looking particularly uncompromising today , tired and pale , her dark , short hair spiking up at the back .
13 It was just before midnight and she was out on the terrace , staring out only half seeingly at the star-spangled horizon , when she heard the sound of a car drawing up at the front of the house .
14 Together they formed the Jewish Comedy Club appearing Upstairs At The Picket in Hardman Street as part of the Liverpool Festival of Comedy .
15 Both Pen and Ferdinando rushed in immediately the carriage drew up at the door and wonderful was the reunion ; then within the hour the kindest of notes came from Mrs Browning begging her to find the time and energy to visit whenever she was able .
16 The workforce at Linton and Hirst 's is to be cut by one third despite a two million pound investment programme carried out at the company in July .
17 Where a problem seems obviously more complex they suggest that the client makes an appointment with an adviser to come back at a time when the bureau is officially closed to the public .
18 The libraries have been designed on the basis of research carried out at the University under the auspices of a Department of Trade & Industry programme , and include temporal functions to monitor the start and stopping time of shares , financial risk calculation and probability functions .
19 The libraries have been designed on the basis of research carried out at the University under the auspices of a Department of Trade & Industry programme , and include temporal functions to monitor the start and stopping time of shares , financial risk calculation and probability functions .
20 A notable exception to this consensus in the early literature that madness and creativeness are frequently connected is a study carried out at the beginning of the century by Havelock Ellis .
21 As has already been indicated , the planning processes of each company had previously been examined in a research study carried out at the London Business School .
22 A study carried out at the University of California in Berkeley compared woman who maintained 20 per cent weight loss over two years with dieters who relapsed .
23 A study carried out at the Army Personnel Research Establishment ( APRE ) in Farnborough simulated wartime conditions for ten soldiers , who were required to defend a position during a tactical exercise lasting ten days .
24 As soon as the flow becomes established , in fact , piles of solid lumps of lava build up at the sides of the flow , and help to confine it to its course .
25 A friend and I were driving in spring to Crarae gardens near Inveraray so I could salivate over the rhododendrons , but we grew tired of travelling at seven miles an hour behind clods in caravans and on reaching the Rest And Be Thankful pulled into the side to wander about at the base of Beinn an Lochain .
26 While a Western eye is familiar with the process of looking , as it were , through an image to what it represents or means , an Eastern critic looks also at the surface of a painting or a drawing , in which a poem or other calligraphic element may form an integral part of the work .
27 A moment 's thought told him that this system worked only because two-thirds of the expected total of a Yeo Davis partnership came out at an amount well in excess of his salary , or that of any public servant of his age .
28 POPPET GREEN , in whose studio Basil Seal wakes up at the beginning of Evelyn Waugh 's Put Out More Flags , was , we learn , a remarkably silly girl .
29 Although air and fuel vapour will burn when mixed in proportions ranging between 8:1 and 20:1 ( by weight ) , complete combustion occurs only at an air/fuel ratio of about 15:1 .
30 The club meets regularly at The Fox Covert , High Leven .
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