Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hale 's eyes stare knowingly at the viewer , a human sacrifice to an alienated and consumerist culture . |
| 2 | His eyes light up at the recollection of some of the challenges he has tackled that would have daunted the more faint-hearted . |
| 3 | My eyes light up at the sight of her even though she 's hitting me about the head , so to speak . |
| 4 | As Britain 's biggest book printer , his eyes light up at the mention of Labour 's proposals for an extra £10 per primary school child for books . |
| 5 | In the second part of his autobiography Ways of Escape , Graham Greene writes of an earlier period , ‘ … in Indo-China I drained a magic potion , a loving-cup which I have shared since with many retired colonels and officers of the Foreign Legion whose eyes light up at the mention of Saigon and Hanoi ’ . |
| 6 | Every night while the white kids queue up at the teen club Todd 's , or the new romantic Taboo , the black kids flock to the Music Institute for a dose of blinding strobes and pure , hard techno . |
| 7 | Similar proposals put forward at the end of World War I , to provide financial support via NHI to women after childbirth , were rejected largely because it was felt that they would offer an inducement to married women to work . |
| 8 | However , single pairs breed regularly at the Cuckmere estuary and about 12 pairs do so between Rye and the Midrips . |
| 9 | The 21-year-old Scottish Under-21 international , who was linked with Rangers during the summer , is one of 10 Forest players whose current contracts run out at the end of the season . |
| 10 | The current contracts run out at the end of the month . |
| 11 | Jane and children plan to fly out to Cape Town when the boats dock there at the end of the third leg in April . |
| 12 | If you are having a mains garden lighting circuit installed , it makes sense to have power points suitable for power tools such as mowers and hedge trimmers put in at the time . |
| 13 | People pushed and shoved , stared at his madder lake suit , trousers cut off at the knee . |
| 14 | Erm now er just just Philip just correct me er on the on the detail of this thing , er individuals pitch up at the tent , collect the collect the instructions |
| 15 | Many Clintonites look ruefully at the surge in Paddy Ashdown 's polls after the adultery confession . |
| 16 | On top of that , for the remaining three days each week , several of its 23 permanent commissions beaver away at the mountain of legislation that is being thrust before them . |
| 17 | She felt her cheeks pale just at the thought of it . |
| 18 | Hong Kong government officials shudder privately at the thought of having to organise the allocation . |
| 19 | Ahead of the opening of a new Supreme Soviet session on Sept. 10 a working group of ministers and experts set up at the end of August had been attempting to synthesise two sets of proposals [ see p. 37663 ] . |
| 20 | She heard the front gate squeak open , and as she saw the two young Garda officers look up at the window and come slowly up her path , Kit Hegarty suddenly knew without any doubt what they were coming to tell her . |
| 21 | In England , literacy and educational level increase , church attendance and Communion figures fall markedly at the end of the century ( Woods 1987 ) . |
| 22 | The fifteenth hole is short but dangerous ; its plateau green is ringed by bunkers at the front and sides and the trees press in at the back in a claustrophobic way — a nightmarish hole if you are playing badly . |
| 23 | The demands and arguments put forward at the Congress had all been heard before . |
| 24 | The company memory of the late launch of a profitable product will convey more merit than the prompt launch of a failure , whatever the arguments put up at the time . |
| 25 | The first English cookery book recipes for tomatoes appear only at the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | IT 'S hardly Princess Diana 's idea of a jolly family Christmas when the royals get together at the Queen 's Sandringham estate . |
| 27 | Seismic stratigraphy is a technique whereby seismic waves generated by.small explosions set off at the surface are reflected or refracted from discontinuities in the underlying sediments which represent changes in sediment properties . |
| 28 | In this type of grouping , the females stay together at the centre of society , with the males on the periphery . |
| 29 | Instead of dressing warmly for the elements , the bikers end up at the summit of popular hills dressed like Paul Weller in a Style Council video . |
| 30 | Some 24 per cent of children drop out at the transition from primary to secondary school , while at secondary level there has recently been a significant rise in the drop-out rate . |