Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Torpedo-shaped glass lifts offered noiseless access to the different levels , on one of which a pianist sat at a grand piano playing classical music while an enormous golden pendulum suspended from the roof swung slowly from one side of the atrium to the other . |
| 32 | The waiters , who were obviously well accustomed to their elderly clientèle moved at a brisk trot . |
| 33 | Last night the old campaigner Benn was at an end of election meeting at a local community hall ; tonight there is a post-count tea with sandwiches . |
| 34 | Two general reviews of the field presented at an introductory level are Bally et al. |
| 35 | I would prefer , at the risk of offending the purists , to take a robust attitude , and simply say that it is a decision made at a particular time in response to a particular situation against a particular political background , and is poor material on which to build any general proposition . |
| 36 | As he knows , the decision made at an earlier stage not to complete the slip road was considered to be ludicrous . |
| 37 | Only a black quilted hairband pushing back her blonde hair hinted at an aristocratic connection . |
| 38 | Only a black quilted hairband pushing back her blonde hair hinted at an aristocratic connection . |
| 39 | If only she could lose her puppy fat and get her hair done at a proper salon instead of having it cut by Ivy Tucker who lived down the road and who did hairdressing for pin money . |
| 40 | Suppose that a contract to sell at a given price for a specified period is , for whatever reason , advantageous to both buyers and sellers . |
| 41 | Now the little girl sits at a small table in the cellar , the playing cards , Ludo and Monopoly set aside , as snipers ' bullets smack into the building and an grenades drop into the street . |
| 42 | But he got a pattern made and had the base of the machine made at a local foundry and he made all the leverage parts and got the , he got the blades made in Sheffield or somewhere and er he made one for himself . |
| 43 | Based on the shape of this receptive field , they then search for the stimulus that gives the best response from it , and in Figure 7 you see that one particular cell responded best to movement of a bar oriented at a particular angle , and also that it only responded when this bar moved in one direction . |
| 44 | When work ceased at an industrial estate near Liverpool ( within daily travelling distance of Leyland ) , Mr Stevenson was offered work at a number of other sites : Northumberland , Anglesey and Manchester . |
| 45 | The coach stopped at a neat house in a quiet , shady street in north London . |
| 46 | That sort of language encouraged the many resentments Americans harbour against high culture ( remember the disparagement of Adlai Stevenson as an ‘ egghead ’ ? ) and led to such curiosae as the Chicago attack on an Eric Fischl painting in which a fully clothed boy looks at a naked man swinging a bat . |
| 47 | The same groups of women are at risk : those of a promiscuous nature , and particularly those whose first sexual intercourse occurred at an early age . |
| 48 | Stretched out on a bed was Chuck Riley , with a girl dabbing at a nasty bruise on his forehead . |
| 49 | The first skirmish over the national security issue came at a closed hearing on Jan. 11 when it was reported that the prosecution had accused the lawyer of one of Noriega 's co-defendants of improperly disclosing classified information when making an earlier request for access to National Security Council records . |
| 50 | THE YORKSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET CLUB YEARBOOK 1992 — McDermott 's withdrawal came at a bad time : an anticipatory profile of the Queensland firebreather leads the 92nd edition , followed by a réumé of others born outside the county line . |
| 51 | Both glans and prepuce are covered by stratified squamous epithelium , and separation occurs at a variable time from before birth to several years afterwards by desquamation . |
| 52 | The parallels of the extreme behaviourist and the extreme hereditarian meet at a finite point and join hands in mystic union , like the snake with its tail in its mouth , welded together by the acetylene torch of commitment to one approach and one answer to a multitude of questions . |
| 53 | The crash happened at a notorious accident blackspot . |
| 54 | A test performed at a reputable clinic — and found to be positive — is checked by doing further test on the same sample using different methods to detect HIV antibodies . |
| 55 | I thought that this was a painting I should n't discuss with Lili , but only when I had walked to the end of the gallery to look at an innocuous picture of a group of long-haired sheep did I ask myself what Robert had been doing in Marie Claire 's bedroom . |
| 56 | Listen to a car passing on the road : as the car is approaching , its engine sounds at a higher pitch ( corresponding to a higher frequency of sound waves ) , and when it passes and goes away , it sounds at a lower pitch . |
| 57 | But afterwards , I found myself in the dim bathroom of my hut staring at a haunted face . |
| 58 | The church had a narthex set at an oblique angle to one of the outer octagon sides ; it is believed that this was not the original narthex , which would have directly faced the eastern apse ( 195 ) . |
| 59 | The failure of the ITC to arrive at a negotiated settlement with its creditors , who claimed that they were owed a total of £513 million , led to a protracted battle in English courts [ see pp. 35293 ; 36635 ] . |
| 60 | Mum was the word in Bournemouth as work proceeded at a feverish pitch on a stunning new exhibition at the ExpoCentre . |