Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] at [art] [noun] [noun sg] " 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 | LIVERPOOL 'S hopes of a European reprieve were shattered yesterday at a FIFA meeting in Switzerland . |
| 7 | She woke a short while later under the impression that she 'd dropped off at a cocktail party . |
| 8 | He took a taxi the twelve miles into Brighton , and was dropped off at the Willett Collection , housed in the town 's museum . |
| 9 | I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Computer operator Wightman , based in Marylebone , was picked out at an identity parade . |
| 15 | Rocket tests are carried out at a missile centre at Shuan-ch'eng-tsu or at a nuclear test range in Lop Nor . |
| 16 | Much of what we now know about the tool-using behaviour of wild chimpanzees has come from the remarkable long-term studies carried out at the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania by British primatologist Jane Goodall . |
| 17 | The studies , carried out at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , show that the reactions which convert chlorine into the active form that destroys ozone take place as the temperature drops below 200 degrees Kelvin . |
| 18 | More tests are to be carried out at the allotment wall in Castle Hill , Richmond , to find out its exact condition . |
| 19 | Servicing of steam locomotive No. 90 was carried out at the Severn Valley Railway Works at Bridgenorth where a complete new firebox and boiler was made and then shipped to Galway for installation . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This volume reports a wide-ranging study of 16 leading British companies — including each of the seven companies covered in this report — carried out at the London Business School Centre for Business Strategy . |
| 22 | As has already been indicated , the planning processes of each company had previously been examined in a research study carried out at the London Business School . |
| 23 | Resurfacing work is to be carried out at the Thinford roundabout and diversions will be in operation via Ferryhill , Kirk Merrington and Tudhoe . |
| 24 | Many of the operations undertaken at this stage would be similar to those carried out at the integration stage ( 4.2 ) . |
| 25 | The following steps are carried out at the planning stage : |
| 26 | Research into child safety seats is carried out at the Transport Research Laboratory in Berkshire . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He had actually slumped down at the breakfast table before he became aware of Kelly 's presence . |
| 29 | I have read Primo Levi 's experience at Auschwitz and I produced a series of paintings based on the Holocaust which were exhibited together at the Mercury Gallery . |
| 30 | These are highly refractile bodies seen only at the pachytene stage , and which correspond to the No. 9 C-band region seen at metaphase . |