Example sentences of "[vb past] at the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constable Laurie gave evidence that on 5th August he entered at the back door of 149 Chatham Street , that he received from her 1/9d. , and that she received from him a betting slip . |
| 2 | If I understood him correctly , this is an aspect of what David Parkin described at the 1973 Association of Social Anthropologists Conference as Personal Anthropology . |
| 3 | Black pretended not to overhear , but mused at the private world of women and the bond that had formed between the two . |
| 4 | The voice startled her but when she looked round she winced at the stale smell of alcohol on the man 's breath . |
| 5 | Mary winced at the incontinent ignition of thanks activated by the discovery of a modest twist of Joseph 's tobacco . |
| 6 | She winced at the faint trace of disgust in his voice , but managed to turn it into a careless shrug . |
| 7 | He tore open the cupboard door and peered at the tiny porthole of glass on the front of the central heating boiler . |
| 8 | Springing up , he took two steps across to it and peered at the glazed array of schoolboy faces . |
| 9 | He frowned deeply and peered at the narrow line of black and white spaces hanging in the air in front of him . |
| 10 | She trembled at the razor-sharp sleet of misery : losing Lucy . |
| 11 | Lucenzo reached out and pushed back the tress of copper hair which had fallen over her forehead , and she trembled at the sensual drift of his fingers over her face . |
| 12 | The source of DNA was plasmid pFRC64 ( 14 ) , which contains a 198 bp long AccI-HindIII DNA fragment from phage φ29 genome , containing both P A2b and P A3 promoters , cloned at the SmaI site of pUC19Ο , so that transcription from P A2b promoter faces the unique EcoRI site from the pUC polylinker sequence . |
| 13 | Artai could not have declared any public intent to marry Jehana , Alexei realised , or it would have been the talk of Kinsai. probably there were rumours — nothing was ever entirely a secret at court — and he glanced again at the women who clustered at the other end of the pool . |
| 14 | I sucked at the little trickle of blood from my finger . |
| 15 | He trained at the Central School of Art and Design , but never graduated , joining instead a group of frustrated designers , which included such budding innovationists as Mary Quant and Laura Ashley , who , like Conran himself , were eventually to become household names . |
| 16 | One further return to Carolingian precedent occurred at the very end of Louis VII 's reign , when coinage from the king 's mints and bearing his image began to circulate outside the royal demesne for the first time since the late ninth century . |
| 17 | Wills presided at the inaugural meeting of the Bristol Union Society for the Promotion of Sunday Schools , and his son , W.D . |
| 18 | Tess Miller studied at the Royal College of Music and has performed and recorded in this country and abroad with most of the London chamber orchestras , both as soloist and orchestral player . |
| 19 | Neil Sissons studied at the Royal College of Music , before becoming organ scholar of Worcester College , Oxford . |
| 20 | He studied at the Royal College of Art before teaching at St Martin 's School of Art and is course tutor at Colchester Institute . |
| 21 | Andy Culshaw , the other trumpeter , studied at the Birmingham School of Music , while tubist Richard Sandland hails from Tamworth and also studied at the Royal College of Music . |
| 22 | He studied at the Royal College of Chemistry , London , under A. W. von Hofmann , and in 1860 joined as a partner the well established chemical manufacturing business founded by his grandfather , Luke Howard [ q.v. ] , in 1807 . |
| 23 | We sailed at the first light of day . |
| 24 | In the reception area , Angelica gestured at the closed door of Georgina 's office . |
| 25 | His poetry tells a different story : there was wide and profound sentience — of man and nature , of beauty and the beast , of times and seasons , of perception and tactility , of hearing and tasting , and smelling ; at the bottom of which remains an unresolved questing , a whole gamut of unanswered questions which drove at the very heart of what he most wished to believe . |
| 26 | Sometimes I shave my legs , amazed at the majestic tedium of the activity . |
| 27 | In the event , although both Charitable Trust and Council had given assent to the first advert on the policy agreed , they baulked at the second wave of recruiting , and sought to change the basis of our agreement . |
| 28 | WavePhore Inc unveiled at the National Association of Broadcasters Convention its new proprietary high speed TVT1 data wireless transmitter . |
| 29 | Of course , there are no witnesses to what happened at the other end of her journey . |
| 30 | And Joe waited , cruelly , and nothing happened at the other end of the line . |