Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he loosed his grip suddenly , and stood back with an oath , his hand going up to his lip where blood appeared at the site of her teeth-marks . |
| 2 | Where Lewis looked at the world around him , even when he was writing autobiography , Leavis looked ever more attentively at himself . |
| 3 | I mutter something and start to clear the dishes , but she is not going to be brushed aside , so Darius crouches at the table with his chin on his hands , watching us like we 're Punch and Judy , and I admit that someone might come . |
| 4 | Although sources suggested at the time of Craythorne 's departure that marketing director Udo Kaul might roll his responsibilities into the brief of marketing manager Peter Townsend , Brackenbury has been appointed as head of all advertising functions , with an advertising coordinator , Roger Harris , reporting to him . |
| 5 | Although Laing started at the bottom of the ladder , he admits that the fact he and his brother inherited control of the business early on in their careers helped them to climb the hierarchy rather swiftly . |
| 6 | And , although Folly stared at the slip of pasteboard with the kind of intensity that fortune-tellers reserved for Tarot cards , she did n't know exactly what he had in mind … |
| 7 | No breaks in the cold chain were documented at the central storage facility , although vaccines kept at the study site were discarded on two occasions after power failures that lasted several hours . |
| 8 | The report claimed that although measures introduced at the outset of the conflict , such as special incentives for planting food crops , would ensure a good grain harvest in 1991 , the destruction of the country 's infrastructure during the bombing would seriously hamper collection and distribution , so that urban areas would suffer from severe shortages of wheat . |
| 9 | It seems that Constanze supplied Mozart with the sexual fulfilment he needed , and , although rumours abounded at the time , and have continued ever since , that both husband and wife took other lovers , there is not a shred of evidence to support such a theory . |
| 10 | All through trains ceased on the GC in the early hours of 4th September 1966 , when signal boxes were locked out of use until demolition began at the turn of the year . |
| 11 | Now , in the absence of team conductor Paul Gascoigne , Clough has a chance to stake his claim for the autumn World Cup climax … if Taylor survives at the home of the New England Patriots . |
| 12 | Therefore , you are more likely to become pregnant if intercourse occurs at the onset of ovulation . |
| 13 | If inflation continued at the rate of 5% per annum , then by 1 January , 1992 each £100 original nominal value of the bond would be worth £110.25 and the interest due thereon in that year would be £2.205 . |
| 14 | the er , erm , so I mean , we really have made major strides and I think if members look at the location maps I mean you can see just how we how widely spread the day centres now are . |
| 15 | If socialists aim at the formation of a government as a part of their strategy they must be ready to make their views known on these issues : how to reduce unemployment ? how to avoid inflation ? where the money would come from to provide better social services ? |
| 16 | Because bargaining occurs at the margin there is a tendency in negotiating situations for each party to take the course of action which seems to minimize the disadvantages , rather than to maximize the gains . |
| 17 | And when the train started she wished she could close her cars too , because Nick stood at the window and sang . |
| 18 | The dancers engage in playful sport , dressed in simple turtle-coloured costumes , while Wagoner stands at the back as some kind of pondering philosopher figure . |
| 19 | Toby lounged more comfortably in his chair , while Jackson chafed at the lack of hard evidence . |
| 20 | They could spend their honeymoon staying in the old farmhouse which had once belonged to the d'Urbervilles , while Angel studied at the mill nearby . |
| 21 | There was a long silence while Silas stared at the table . |
| 22 | Some harems are permanent , while others dissolve at the end of the breeding season . |
| 23 | She did not know how to assert herself here ; she felt out of her depth , floating in the warm limbo of the pool while swifts swooped at the water . |
| 24 | Since Gauloises withdrew at the end of last season I really did n't know where I stood . |
| 25 | Later they walked in the garden together , while Basil worked at the portrait . |
| 26 | While Jimmy stood at the reception desk counter , both arms spread out on it backwards in the same pose that he had adopted at the bar counter earlier that evening , Duvall simply stood two feet by his side , watching him . |
| 27 | Whilst Alison states at the end of Chapter 11 that she would not like to have a period as it would signify that she had ‘ let up ’ control over her body , Freya feels quite differently , realising that getting her periods back would be a good sign of recovery . |
| 28 | Philip , who is to take his A Levels this summer , has been studying at Repton for the last few months and will join the Academy in August , two months after Zara arrives at the Academy 's Hemel Hempstead base . |
| 29 | Indeed , it was something of a typically topsy-turvy but none the less gritty performance from Durie , who missed a match point at 5-3 and then had to wait an hour to complete the encounter after rain fell at the end of the ninth game . |
| 30 | There is something reflexive rather than rational , automatic rather than deliberative , circumscribed and autonomous rather than holistic about parsing a sentence such as ‘ She met John before Mary arrived at the airport ’ in the way we do ( with the pronoun she not referring to Mary but to some other female ) . |