Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] at [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Banks it always was who gazed grimly at the enemy submarine from the bridge , Michael Banks who ignored the smoke pouring from his Spitfire 's engine as he trained his sights on the alien Messerschmidt . |
| 2 | When mum and I had checked in at the travel desk and given in our suit cases we were able to wander around and have something to eat until our flight was called out . |
| 3 | When W. C. T. was two years old his mother gave birth to his brother John ; the pair of them were baptised together at the parish church on 21 January 1775 . |
| 4 | We lose some of the sense of taste as we get older , but the temptation to add more salt to food , and to eat salty foods , should be resisted — salt is best added only at the cooking stage ; not at the table . |
| 5 | There the plaintiff had booked in at the reception desk of a hotel and only subsequently , on entering her room , did she discover behind the door a notice which claimed to exclude the hotel 's liability for guests ’ property . |
| 6 | She woke a short while later under the impression that she 'd dropped off at a cocktail party . |
| 7 | Recently we have looked carefully at the Training Courses at present being run for Qualified Teachers . |
| 8 | I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter . |
| 9 | ‘ We 're fully booked up at the Hospitality Unit , ’ said Sir Bryan , ‘ but Mrs. Mackintosh can easily lay on a cold lunch for them here . |
| 10 | Born deaf , and educated partly at the Langside Institution , Glasgow and partly at William Van Praagh 's Oral School in London , George Edward was a fine designer of silver cups , challenge shields and the like , and also a fine yachtsman who won many trophies in his racing yachts Osprey and Majel . |
| 11 | Waste will be sorted centrally at a waste stream sorting plant ; easily recyclable materials such as metals , glass and plastics will be sent to reprocessing plants in the region ; organic material will be composted and sold for fertiliser ; heat generated by the decomposing material will be used to warm ponds to farm prawns and crayfish , and gas will be sold to a local power-generating company . |
| 12 | He had been picked out at an identification parade only after his photograph had been shown to the prosecution witnesses — three criminals who got shorter sentences for helping the police . |
| 13 | Computer operator Wightman , based in Marylebone , was picked out at an identity parade . |
| 14 | Rocket tests are carried out at a missile centre at Shuan-ch'eng-tsu or at a nuclear test range in Lop Nor . |
| 15 | Much of the work including that carried out at the retraining facilities at Ellesemere Port is aimed at helping younger servicemen and women . |
| 16 | A study carried out at the Army Personnel Research Establishment ( APRE ) in Farnborough simulated wartime conditions for ten soldiers , who were required to defend a position during a tactical exercise lasting ten days . |
| 17 | More tests are to be carried out at the allotment wall in Castle Hill , Richmond , to find out its exact condition . |
| 18 | Richmondshire District Council 's recreation committee has agreed to give up to £100 to urgent repairs being carried out at the memorial hall , Middleton Tyas , near Richmond . |
| 19 | Building on the work of the Japan Industrial Studies Programme already carried out at the Policy Studies Institute , the aim is to find out how Japanese managers , especially those in companies that are competing in the British market , see marketing and how they succeed in putting their strategies into effect . |
| 20 | Many of the operations undertaken at this stage would be similar to those carried out at the integration stage ( 4.2 ) . |
| 21 | The following steps are carried out at the planning stage : |
| 22 | Research into child safety seats is carried out at the Transport Research Laboratory in Berkshire . |
| 23 | The draft timetable will have been decided on at the sale strategy stage and will be to an extent a function of the marketing process chosen . |
| 24 | He had actually slumped down at the breakfast table before he became aware of Kelly 's presence . |
| 25 | These are highly refractile bodies seen only at the pachytene stage , and which correspond to the No. 9 C-band region seen at metaphase . |
| 26 | It was just I , I went down they played Liverpool in the cup about that era , and the , the wall was pushed down at the Street end but erm the people just spilled on the pitch and I do n't think anyone was really hurt , this happened when they played er Liverpool in the cup a couple of years ago the wall was pushed down at the other end on that occasion , but er there was just one , one person hurt but there was n't anybody very seriously injured as I understand |
| 27 | The instructions warn that if the stove burns with a high yellow flame it should be turned off at the fuel valve and allowed to cool . |
| 28 | The interiors of a number of parish churches were similarly transformed as the Laudian bishops campaigned vigorously for the erection of altars positioned permanently at the east end of the chancel and railed off from the nave . |
| 29 | An oil painting worth £12,000 and which was nicked from the Marquess of Bute in 1987 , has turned up at a car boot sale . |
| 30 | Only last week ( British Medical Journal , vol 286 , p 765 ) there was an account of two young lassies in Australia who had turned up at a health centre feeling nauseous and generally out of sorts . |