Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [adv] [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He named it Stegman ( a steg is a male goose ) and it spent most of the summer on the reservoir but always wintered at West Birk Hatt . |
| 2 | The latter player , once a top-10 performer but now languishing at No. 31 after a series of injuries and a great loss of confidence , was a bag of nerves . |
| 3 | Nationally imposed conditions of employment and salary scales have to be managed at LEA level and then implemented at school level . |
| 4 | The chapter entitled " Language and gender " is bound to seem tokenistic , despite any protestations , for it is rather unsatisfactory to produce a chapter on gender and ideology and then discuss at length two canonical male texts . |
| 5 | The head of the deceased then appears on a television screen which is tastefully draped in white silk and discreetly illuminated at night . |
| 6 | Her voice was shaking as she told me that on returning from the cinema a couple of weeks earlier she had been grabbed from behind , dragged into an alley and viciously raped at knifepoint . |
| 7 | Those denied an education remained in hospitals without any form of mental stimulation or simply stayed at home ; a few attended ‘ junior ’ training centres . |
| 8 | From here we carried on along a river and soon arrived at Sokol which has just one house — a traditional forester 's cabin with deer antlers above the front door . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't want to become a prisoner of my own fame or become pushed into a corner by success and just sit at home . ’ |
| 10 | Company liquidations and personal sector mortgage defaults have both risen sharply over the last year and currently stand at record levels . |
| 11 | Because the steam is generated in a separate tank and then passed at pressure through a pipe onto the iron 's soleplate , drips , leaks , calcium and other nasties are prevented from staining your clothes and the life of the iron is prolonged . |
| 12 | One or two layers would be in space — first shooting at missiles as they left the atmosphere and then shooting at re-entry vehicles as they travel through space . |