Example sentences of "at the big [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bite back at the big freeze this season with our winter skincare tips . |
| 2 | He had been writing at the big desk , and had come round it to examine the patient . |
| 3 | She was too to enjoy the hot weather and little beads of perspiration shone on her forehead as she sat down at the big desk opposite the row of girls . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's been a lifelong ambition of mine to beat him but at the big jump before Ballyboley Corner , Joey whizzed past me and although I tried to catch him again and take a tight line at Ballyboley he had just too much experience and he held on to beat me . |
| 5 | Sheila and Mona were writing at side tables ; Michael was kneeling at the big armchair , a book between his elbows , as if in prayer , a position he sometimes used for studying . |
| 6 | The final total of £8063.36 was reached because of the collection at the big Service ; the House-to-House collection ; and of course the contributions from the housebound and those on holiday , who never forget . |
| 7 | At the big Mevasseret absorption centre near Jerusalem , where there are 77 Russian families in different stages of acclimatization , only half the breadwinners are working . |
| 8 | They were real grown-up long trousers exactly like those worn by the boys at the big school . |
| 9 | In Britain , employees at TSB , a small retail bank , sell nearly four times as much insurance as rivals at the big insurance firms . |
| 10 | As it came near he quickly lowered the camera and directed a wide-eyed stare , straight at the big cat . |
| 11 | Right at the big pimple on your forehead . ’ |
| 12 | General Pershing is the one to be on at the big race . |
| 13 | He will be a guest at the big race day next Saturday , following an appearance on the Kelly show the previous evening . |
| 14 | Ebert looked up at the big man defiantly , spitting the words back at him . |
| 15 | Ebert glared pure hatred at the big man 's back . |
| 16 | He tried to fight back , clutching at her throat and digging his thumbs into her Adam 's apple , but she bit into his thumb until she drew blood , kicking again at the big man . |
| 17 | The girl smiled shyly up at the big man behind the wheel and got a friendly grin in return . |
| 18 | Sylvie , the cook , sat at the big kitchen table by the window , writing a list and shooing pigeons away . |
| 19 | They sat down at the big kitchen table and Mrs Wood put the food on three hot plates . |
| 20 | Now the bell is beginning to toll for indoor athletics at the station as , at long last , new facilities are being opened , at Kelvin Hall in Glasgow and soon at the big centre in Birmingham . |
| 21 | Einstein 's general theory of relativity , on its own , predicted that space-time began at the big bang singularity and would come to an end either at the big crunch singularity ( if the whole universe recollapsed ) , or at a singularity inside a black hole ( if a local region , such as a star , were to collapse ) . |
| 22 | I turned to Beamish to see if he had any observation to make , but the trainer was silent , gazing at the big animal expressionlessly . |
| 23 | AT&T Co and Unix System Laboratories Inc want to be sure that no one that contributed significantly to the advance of Unix these past 24 years is overlooked at the big bash they 're throwing at UniForum ; all obscure names gratefully received . |
| 24 | AT&T and Unix System Labs want to be sure no one who contributed significantly to the advance of Unix these last 24 years is overlooked at the big bash they 're throwing at Uniforum ( UX No 423 ) . |
| 25 | I could see the neighbours looking curiously at the big box he had with him . |
| 26 | Stand back from time to time and take a look at the big picture . |
| 27 | Erm and you need to look at the big picture . |
| 28 | So I suppose whatever area you went into , erm you might find it a bit frustrating to start with , because you were n't looking at the big picture . |
| 29 | In particular , general relativity can not predict how the universe should begin at the big bang . |
| 30 | Maybe the quantum principle would mean that one could also avoid the histories having a beginning in time , a point of creation , at the big bang . |