Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With direct reference to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , and in response to a ‘ demand ’ for more radical action which he had read in a newspaper , Hitler made clear that he had at the time to proceed tactically and in stages , but that his strategy was to manoeuvre his enemy into a corner before destroying him completely . |
| 2 | It 's funny that he flags at the interests of the party of crime . |
| 3 | the , yeah , twenty I mean , well that one goes different and they started at the same edge , ah two twenty twos oh |
| 4 | Afraid that at any moment someone would shout ‘ Grab her ! ’ and drag her off to some unspecified yet ineluctable torment , she forced herself at least to look calm while she sat at the console on the dais . |
| 5 | Nor is the situation any different when we look at the trial-and-error component of the behaviour by which bees learn to harvest flower species efficiently . |
| 6 | The answer , I think , is quite clear when you look at the definition again , but it is not necessarily clear at first reading . |
| 7 | His gaze was inscrutable as he smiled at the American couple . |
| 8 | The Queen looked drawn and unsmiling as she arrived at the games with Prince Philip , Prince Edward and the Queen Mother . |
| 9 | Of course I admit there 's an alcohol problem , but then again it tends to look worse than it is because the res is dry so everyone congregates at the nearest bar , which is two miles south , in Nebraska . |
| 10 | ‘ I finished early and I called at the library for you . |
| 11 | This would have been impossible unless we camped at the foot of Beinn Eibhinn , or had started from Loch Ossian at dawn , or were two gold medalist fell-runners . |
| 12 | The two boys were no older than six , their eyes wide and fearful as they stared at the gun hanging limply at her side . |
| 13 | The train journey lasted all day , and it was dark when they arrived at the station . |
| 14 | A certain amount of anxiety was felt but was relieved when he reappeared at the tea-break with his shoulders once more drawn up to his ears . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's not anything like as easy as one imagines at the beginning , ’ she said , ‘ and when you 've actually qualified it 's quite frightening when you 're confronted by an animal with some mysterious disease and an anxious client standing by . |
| 16 | The journey itself was pretty tiring , taking 21 hours in total and we arrived at the hotel at 5am . |
| 17 | Since she was not particularly enamoured of Madame de Montijo it is little wonder that she arrived at the Cathedral in a state of high discontent . |
| 18 | This morning Luke seemed even less human than he had at the interview when obviously she had caught him in an off moment . |
| 19 | They 'll be lucky if they stop at the Horseshoe . |
| 20 | ‘ You 'd think there 'd be no one left when you look at the city . |
| 21 | The groups in our survey worked to make sure that we look at the needs , advice needs that they have , and that 's brought out . |
| 22 | If one is brave enough to try the draft out on critical , expert colleagues , one can be reasonably sure that what emerges at the end will be free of double questions , ambiguities , leading questions , and so on , and the helpful colleagues , in pretending to be informants , will also probably have thought up some difficult-to-classify answers too . |
| 23 | In the middle there is a little pond with a fountain , and the golden carp that swim in it are so tame that they come at the sound of Dennis 's voice . |
| 24 | It would be very awkward if she called at the house and Miss Watson were just about to come over . |
| 25 | The genital slits are edged with rounded papillae proximally which become more elongated and spine-like until they merge at the edge with the arm comb-spinelets . |
| 26 | It was late when they arrived at the old house and by tacit consent they went straight to bed . |
| 27 | In retrospect , many of those stories now seem considerably less fanciful than they did at the time . |
| 28 | So before we proceed further it is important that we look at the units and measurement of temperature , pressure and volume . |
| 29 | It 's important that we look at the pattern of our spending as a local authority over the past five or six years . |
| 30 | We know that he kept away from the moor , so it 's unlikely that he waited at the moor gate every evening . |