Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 Tom unbuttoned his overcoat , fished in the pocket of the dark suit which he scathingly referred to as his ‘ city uniform ’ for his identity card and flashed it at the uniformed security man .
2 The Chinese believe that to stand on one leg while kicking with the other unbalances the practitioner and places him at a disadvantage .
3 And finally two Ayr police officers said that a shelved 1969 report showed they had picked up a man ‘ of slight build and a Glasgow accent who said his name was McGuigan or McGuinness ’ some 600 yards from the Ross bungalow in the early hours of the morning of the murder and dropped him at the bus station ; and they now declared from photographs recently shown to them that the man was William McGuinness .
4 Deliberately , he lifted the photograph and flung it at the fireplace .
5 I made contact with Sheringham through an agent and met him at a hotel .
6 A dozen years ago , half ICI 's sales were in the UK , tying the company 's fortunes to Britain 's anaemic manufacturing industry and putting it at a colossal disadvantage to rivals in more robust economies ; last year , the proportion was down to 21% , against 31% in the Americas , 25% in continental Europe , 17% in the Asia-Pacific region and 6% elsewhere .
7 The volume of consumption should be adjusted by altering taxes and social insurance contributions , raising them to dampen down a boom and cutting them at the beginning of a depression .
8 It is much better to have one review and to have it at the beginning of the Parliament , and that is exactly what we shall do .
9 The scene that greeted her at the top was already less frightening than it had been when Phoebe arrived .
10 the sad news for golfers is that you 've a better chance of watching the sport than playing it at the Oxfordshire club … membership is being limited to 750 and the joining fee is twenty five thousand pounds …
11 Like someone in a trance , she gazed at the clasp that fastened it at the throat .
12 On present thinking , it would be more logical to treat it as revision and to do it at the later stage .
13 I remember when Mike was a baby and I went home with my shopping and left him at the check-out in Sainsbury 's .
14 They followed Fiver up the run and overtook him at the entrance .
15 If I forgive you for being male and cruel and unreasonable , you must forgive me for being female and for carrying another man 's child and wanting you at the same time .
16 ‘ When we 're ready to leave I 'll go to the clinic , get my passport out of the desk and meet you at the airport .
17 And now she did what she had promised herself she would do , and lifted her foot and aimed it at the nun 's shin .
18 Thirdly , the model suggests one way of accounting for the peculiar nature of mathematics , computing and language , as the disciplines which constitute our stances in and towards the world , and for the way they relate to other disciplines , both servicing them at a mundane level and pervading them at a profound level .
19 Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl .
20 She wrapped up warmly , winding a scarf round her neck , crossing it over her chest and pinning it at the back , as her mother had done in her childhood .
21 They revel in their bloodlust and gratify it at every opportunity .
22 Because the high power electron beam would damage the magnets , a magnetic transport system ( not shown ) injects the beam into the wiggler and removes it at the exit .
23 Their education certainly suffered as the teachers did not like them interrupting the curriculum and sat them at the back of the class and told them to write home .
24 Even if I did n't have a job that keeps me at the other end of the country for most of the year , this sort of place could n't provide a living .
25 ‘ Naw , ’ he replied angrily , crumpling up the pools coupon and throwing it at the television set .
26 As Kopyion walked towards him , Carlson ordered him to stop , aimed his weapon and fired it at the general 's shoulder .
27 I needed to come up with a solution which avoided this overly defined focal point and used it at the same time .
28 Here you are trying to have your cake and eat it at the same time …
29 I propose Elizabeth that you circulate Jenny 's reprocedures to everyone but we do n't know with them , that we will read them prior to the next meeting and agree them at the meeting papers turning I have got to assess papers turning take one .
30 We treat older people as a group and set them at the margins of society .
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