Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [verb] at [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The Pacifics were used at this time on the Nottingham to Marylebone semi-fasts but they were to be transferred away as the rundown of the GC got underway .
2 Claire and Kezia were looking at each other and saying nothing .
3 [ BELVILLE is enraged at this revelation of his past amours . ]
4 November 1697 , will always be associated with Chiswick , although he was constantly referred to , in his day , as ‘ Mr. Hogarth of Leicester Fields ’ — the name by which Leicester Square was known at that time — as that was his business centre and where he worked before he married .
5 It was after five-thirty on a Friday night , and Tom was expected at any minute .
6 The single rough road across Simonswood Moss near Liverpool is barred at either end by the intimidating iron gates of the Knowsley estate .
7 When Dexter focused back on the conversation , Blanche was laughing at some joke of Eddy Russell 's that the sergeant had missed .
8 He added NCP was represented at all site meetings .
9 He added NCP was represented at all site meetings .
10 The House of Lords was deliberating at that moment whether such people could legally be Trustees of a Church of England School ( it was eventually decided that they could not ) .
11 FitzAlan and de Villiers were glaring at each other across her , but as she made a move to sit up Isabel saw the scowl fade from Simon 's face and he reached down a hand to steady her .
12 Claudia could have warned him to beware of Roman when that note entered his voice but Dana and Garry were smiling at each other in mutual satisfaction .
13 It was a ploy of Lord Darlington 's to stand at this shelf studying the spines of the encyclopedias as I came down the staircase , and sometimes , to increase the effect of an accidental meeting , he would actually pull out a volume and pretend to be engrossed as I completed my descent .
14 Minton is said at this time to have destroyed some of the erotic drawings which he had begun making after seeing those by Fuseli which Wan Ross had acquired from Ruthven Todd .
15 Rousseau 's blueprint for the education of Sophie is directed at this end , and if it is truly successful , she will internalise the lesson until neither her behaviour nor her demeanour will demand the acknowledgement .
16 Dad had turned away , and Mum and Mrs Fry were looking at each other like conspirators .
17 As originally planned , MOPP was discontinued at this stage ; even assuming that tumour was still present , a further reduction of its volume as a result of more than eight cycles was considered unlikely .
18 The other related campaign in which Mrs Whitehouse was involved at this time — and more centrally than in the OZ case — was the prosecution brought against the publisher of a book of advice for schoolchildren called The Little Red Schoolbook .
19 Moscow was said at this stage to have been somewhat sluggish over the provision of spares and replacement items .
20 He remembers the Very High Frequency ( VHF ) radio was far superior to the kit the RAF was using at that time .
21 The Mid Hampshire coroner , Grahame Short , said : ‘ It seems that Sarah was contemplating at that time taking her life .
22 Incidentally there was some goss in a sunday paper that Leeds were looking at another keeper ( from the lower divisions … cant remember who ) .
23 A summons relating to the further appeal to the Hoge Raad was served at that office in accordance with an amendment to the Netherlands Code of Civil Procedure introduced in 1985 .
24 The day after the robbery Frank Smith was arrested at this caravan site near Oxford .
25 Don Neely said that Crowe was asked at this time whether he was available for the World Cup if somebody else were skipper : ‘ I wo n't tell you his reaction .
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