Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As it was er quite late on a Sunday evening I did in fact take the opportunity to listen at the door of the flat in question .
2 With superb research facilities and growing international demand for our expertise , CTL gives you the opportunity to work at the forefront of toxicological research .
3 Now he had the opportunity to stand at the counter with one of his mates and talk about other things .
4 Draw up a life table for a cohort of 5000 students showing , for each year of study , the probability of leaving and the expected remaining stay calculated on the assumption that one-tenth of the leavers in any year depart at random times during the year and the remainder go at the end of that year .
5 The skeleton was then shipped home for burial and the remainder deposited at the place of death .
6 an Aux(iliary) Input ( also a stereo 3.5 mm socket ) connects a cassette player to the GX-7 , the guitar output is mixed in and can be heard via a pair of Walkman headphones connected to the Out , the guitar appearing at the centre of the stereo image .
7 Shrilling overhead , the hurricane clawed at the leaf canopy of the rain forest , tearing great holes in it .
8 So it was last Tuesday night , when the change allowed at the end of our whacky version of five-card rolling draw brought your correspondent the most beautiful five of spades he had ever seen — face down what 's more — to go with the A-2-3-4 he was showing .
9 Members of the board met at the weekend in Berlin to discuss Harvestehudur 's request for a postponement in order to compete in the Glenfiddich .
10 The burglary happened at the end of February when Darlington Borough Council were changing locks at 500 old people 's flats after spare keys went missing .
11 The burglary happened at the end of February when Darlington Borough Council was changing locks at 500 old people 's flats after spare keys went missing .
12 After an anterior myocardial infarct there is a tendency for the heart to bulge at the site of the damaged muscle .
13 Normally the afternoon meeting at the east Boldon track are attended by around 250 regulars , but with the attraction of a couple of free pints the gate is expected to be much bigger at tomorrow 's meeting , which starts at 2.08 pm .
14 ‘ Look , Mum , I just spent most of the afternoon staring at the man — but in fury , not admiration .
15 The procurator protested at the leniency of the sentence .
16 Much of the initial cost of setting up the campaign was covered either by various committee members somehow doing things for free or came from the remainder of the money raised at the Comedy Store .
17 The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value .
18 We on these Benches agree with his wish that the money thrown at the poll tax had been invested in schools , hospitals and job creation .
19 E. F. Loftus and Burns interpreted these results as retrograde amnesia produced by mental shock , and suggested that the impairment occurred at the time of storage of the memory .
20 If , then , the narrator is characterized as a woman , and , moreover , a woman who boldly presents this tale of female prostitution and financial gain as a jape in which the wife as well as the monk triumphs at the husband 's expense , the implication that women innately conform to the medieval antifeminist stereotype is doubled in strength .
21 A number of anecdotes relate the corruption , greed and ignorance of the ulema and the discontent felt at the introduction of the administrative practices of high Islam and especially its fiscal policy .
22 The case seemed at the time , and in retrospect , to be a win for IBM .
23 The case continues at the city 's crown court .
24 Edgar Wilkinson , the BEA 's Commercial Manager and Ronald Edwards , an LSE economist , played a leading part in the deliberations of the committee , which heard some powerful evidence of the damage done at the peak , particularly by the space heating load , and of the need for restriction by an increased winter price or other means .
25 The ridicule to which the dupes are condemned may be explicitly orchestrated by the author , by providing characters within the text to laugh at the victim .
26 Gloria lead Dot up the outside steps from the basement to look at the cotton flags flapping in the sun .
27 They added a small amount of hydrochloric acid as ‘ electrolyte ’ to carry the current , the oxygen from the water bubbles off at the anode and the hydrogen appears at the cathode .
28 In each case , the Creole comes at the end of the speaker 's turn .
29 That led them to a Kamalian whose secretions matched the saliva found at the scene of the crime . ’
30 The silt stayed at the bottom , however , and the bank remained porous .
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