Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] at [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told the story of a loner , a drifter , a maverick boy who went from banner-waving at public meetings to protest at experiments on animals , all the way to incendiaries and assault and finally an attempted car bomb . |
| 2 | Whitham has come a long way from April 16 , 1988 when he won the Enkalon 1,000cc race and became one of the few English riders to score at Kirkistown at that time . |
| 3 | That is why Cable & Wireless 's subsidiary , Mercury , has recently sent forty payphones for British Forces to use at bases in Saudi Arabia . |
| 4 | The GPS system made its public debut in the recent Gulf War when it enabled allied troops to navigate at night across hundreds of miles of desert to within a few metres . |
| 5 | ‘ It is usual for young , little-known actors to grasp at chances of solo exposure on a probably fashionable , potentially long-running television series , ’ recalled Sherrin . |
| 6 | There is a strong tendency for tone-unit boundaries to occur at boundaries between grammatical units of higher order than words ; it is extremely common to find a tone-unit boundary at a sentence boundary , as in : I wont have any tea I do nt like it |
| 7 | Serbs were using anti-aircraft machineguns with explosive bullets to shoot at buildings in Bosnian-held Grbavica , a district just south of central Sarajevo . |
| 8 | Also the councillors must not want the local fishermen to fish at Witton at a reasonable price compared to other local fishing areas . |