Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb base] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it met a lump of grief and anger at the back of her throat and came out more like a sob . |
| 2 | It is the only tram in service where you have to climb up to your seat and sit at an angle of 20 degrees behind two spacemen in the front compartment ! |
| 3 | There are also plans for an Evening Bus Run with High Tea and Dance at a west coast venue on a date to be arranged in June . |
| 4 | ‘ Feel the weight and look at the thickness , that is a good clue to how strong it will be . |
| 5 | They can go upstairs to the first floor , almost directly above this passage ; in this case they walk up a gentle incline and arrive at the west door leading from location 54 . |
| 6 | On May 7 details were published of the report of a judicial inquiry into massive levels of fraud and waste at the Department of Development Aid between 1984 and 1989 . |
| 7 | In that case her relatives would have enquired for her , raised a hue and cry at the time of the accident . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The O'Malleys left their horse and trap at the crossroads , ’ Johnny said . |
| 9 | The author is senior lecturer in accounting and finance at the Polytechnic of Central London . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll hang myself , ’ I used to mutter over and over again , or for a change I would stare at my shotgun and wonder at the sort of mess I could make of myself . |
| 11 | A firm that acts as an investment manager for a customer must send a report at suitable intervals stating the value of the portfolio or account at the beginning and end of the period , its composition at the end and , in the case of a discretionary portfolio or account , changes in its composition between those dates . |
| 12 | ‘ In the old days of walking and bicycles , you would walk down from your house to the village and stop at every house on the way for talk . |
| 13 | The vineyards of Bisseuil are set some distance back from the village and grow at a height of about 160 metres on the south-east-facing slopes of Mont Aigu , which forms the eastern side of the Val d'Or in which Avenay is located . |
| 14 | To the degree that a managerial ideology and practice has tendencies towards bureaucracy and control at the school level , then it will itself create pressure upon teachers towards the restricted view of professionality . |
| 15 | The multi-national corporations , the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are prolonging the process still today , and individuals have to , I believe , look at their own patterns of consumption and look at the way society in general works and work towards reducing levels of consumption in the rich countries so that we are more able to help the poor countries help themselves . |
| 16 | You 've got ta be a good girl and cross at the traffic island which is up there opposite . |
| 17 | It is a relief to me to take up this pen and sit at a table and endeavour to sort out what I feel pressing in upon me and to know that if sense can be made of it you will make it . |
| 18 | As paragraph 16.1 of Code C makes clear , the police officer is obliged to charge a suspect as soon as he believes that there is sufficient evidence for a prosecution to succeed , but nobody could expect the police simply to cease work on the case and rely at the trial only on the material revealed up to the moment of charging . |
| 19 | It turns out that if I choose a direction and look at the electron 's spin in relation to that direction then either its axis of rotation points along that direction or it is wholly in the reverse direction . |
| 20 | Several admirable but narrow-banded supporters ' organisations rail and rattle at the iniquity of it all and occasionally they are even permitted to have a say at the distant end of a long table . |
| 21 | From the slit along the bottom , it protrudes not only its foot but two sections of its mantle which extend over each flank of the shell and meet at the top . |
| 22 | When I asked if I might walk through the camp and look at the castle from the other side , Cinderella looked distressed , so I said ‘ never mind ’ and made my way back to the stone stile . |
| 23 | Neural crest cells are a group that arise at the site where the folds of the neural tube fuse . |
| 24 | I AM sure I am not the only woman who wept in sympathy , shame and anger at the outrage done to the people of Warrington . |
| 25 | That 's what we 're aiming for here — trying to make individually-designed guitars with real integrity that you can take right down off the shelf and use at a gig . ’ |
| 26 | Some sensational prison escapes in the mid-1960s ( including four of the great train robbers and the spy George Blake ) led to heightened security and control at the cost of treatment , training and education . |
| 27 | There are also bugs on the glass , which are mainly free swimming and congregate at the top of the water . |
| 28 | Through the cloud of dust she saw fitzAlan sheath his sword and crouch at the edge of the stairway . |
| 29 | Turnip salad with capers is no shock today and raw choucroûte salad , an idea Pomiane had picked up in Moscow — buy very fresh choucroûte from the charcutier and stop at the village pump to wash it thoroughly , he told those of his French readers who went in for picnics on canoeing and automobile excursions — should be the joy of vegetarians . |
| 30 | The shock delayed any panic and I forced myself to walk across to the body and look at the face . |