Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NIGEL GOULD has looked at one centre — currently under financial threat — which helps protect young delinquents from themselves . |
| 2 | A case in point was a series of devastating strikes that Finniston had to weather at British Steel in 1974 . |
| 3 | Rawlinson wished to attack at first light , or even earlier ; the French insisted on waiting until daylight so that they might gauge the effect of their all-night artillery fire . |
| 4 | The Air Djibouti flight from Addis Ababa had stopped at Dire Dawa but had picked up no passengers . |
| 5 | The anxieties of some UK companies over the reluctance of UK banks to participate at this stage were assuaged with the early November announcement of a meduium-term facility worth about £700 million ( $190 million ) to be extended to Kuwait by the UK government . |
| 6 | Also unaccompanied , like Nolan , though Harry had mentioned at one time that Lewis was married : his reclusive wife preferred to stay at home to avoid the fuss and fracas of Lewis drunk . |
| 7 | William and Joseph had glanced at each other . |
| 8 | They had all come to her , one by one , during the evening , an evening harried with telephone calls — ‘ I do n't think , ’ Anna had said at one point , ‘ that we have eaten an uninterrupted meal in twenty-one years ’ — and they had all explained to her how awful they felt , and how guilty they felt about feeling awful , because it was n't anybody 's fault , and that made it worse , having nobody to blame . |
| 9 | In fact nobody knows exactly what Galileo did promise at this meeting in 1616 , but his enemies , by a gangster-like trick , did much later produce an unsigned document ( long after Bellarmine was dead ) claiming that Galileo had promised not to teach or publicise the Copernican doctrine . |
| 10 | The great issue of the next week was whether Law could agree to attend the Carlton Club meeting which Chamberlain had summoned at short notice for the Thursday morning , 19 October . |
| 11 | Mr Graham Crowley pictured working at windswept South Gare . |
| 12 | Ibn Battuta describes arriving at this place through a succession of now-vanished gates and courtyards , each surrounded by cohorts of trumpeters and guards . |
| 13 | ’ Louise and Ben had smiled at each other and Zoe had felt excluded . |
| 14 | Marguerite began to laugh at this challenge to Alain , and he fixed Jenna with derisive eyes . |
| 15 | Jancey and Rachel quit staring at each other . |
| 16 | Gwendolen started to scream at this hard-heartedness , but suddenly stopped again as Auguste rose to come to her aid . |
| 17 | Never in the entire two years she 'd known him had he inspired in her such a hopeless rage of jealousy as she 'd experienced when Guido had looked at that girl . |
| 18 | Alice stood marvelling at this thought : that only a couple of days ago Mary Williams had seemed to hold her own fate Alice 's — in her hands ; and now Alice had difficulty in even remembering her status . |
| 19 | Both Peking and East Berlin have witnessed at first hand just how dangerous the forces unleashed by Mikhail Gorbachev can be . |