Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Act provided for a route commencing at the top of Anerley Hill , descending past Crystal Palace ( Low Level ) Station to Thicket Road , a turning on the left , which led through to the top end of Beckenham Road , Penge . |
| 2 | A case heard at the Essex Forest Eyre in 1277 illustrates the conflict between municipal privileges and Forest jurisdictions . |
| 3 | I wander round the park a bit looking at the trees and stuff . |
| 4 | This was a liberal middle-class reformist cop-out guaranteed to give the right women a step up in the power stakes as well as provide appeasement for male consciences which were getting a bit ragged at the edges from the constant battering of Irish feminists . |
| 5 | At first they were very calm and at the end , at the end there was a big panic that they was , they were all talking over each other , there was no control , you know , it was a bit rushed at the end , but , that was n't because it was bad planning , it was just they were panicked at the end . |
| 6 | Crew all a bit over-excited at the moment — if I hear another joke about ‘ I was going Caracas back there ’ I think I 'll strangle someone . |
| 7 | I was just a bit stoned at the time and it all poured out … . |
| 8 | We 're walking back from the shops — me and Marie — and we stop for a bit to look at the lights in the electric shop . |
| 9 | There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree . |
| 10 | But he was a bit flummoxed at the reality of Nuadu , because nobody had ever told him how to address a bastard of the Ireland 's Royal House . |
| 11 | ‘ It was a bit harrowing at the train station this morning , ’ he admitted yesterday . |
| 12 | The application , made under the name of Deputy Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs , Kim Yong Nam , followed a decision announced at the end of May that North Korea was dropping its previous insistence on a single Korean seat at the UN . |
| 13 | The ground radio had reports of a gang shooting at the corner of La Brea and Rodeo , and Provenzano dipped the chopper to the west and flew at 130 mph to reach the site . |
| 14 | One Soviet journal questioned why people ‘ in certain Atlantic capitals … want to fasten the word ’ neutrality ’ to Afghanistan 's non-aligned policy' and concluded that ‘ the ‘ neutralisation ’ label conceals a course aimed at the elimination not only of the government now in power but also of the very system established by the April [ 1978 ] revolution ’ . |
| 15 | 2 years on , Sean Gooch is serving a 5-year jail term for causing death by reckless driving , a sentence upheld at the Appeal Court last week . |
| 16 | TOP industrialists from the United States travelled to Snowdonia to hold a board meeting at the site of their latest acquisition Austin Taylor Communications Ltd at Bethesda . |
| 17 | For this reason , and realising it would need to be a writer based at the BBC with whom he could work closely , David Whitaker , on Donald Wilson 's recommendation , selected Anthony Coburn . |
| 18 | This interpretation has proved to be compatible with other results , including the finding that a click located near the end of a clause tends to elicit longer reaction times than a click located at the beginning of a clause ( Abrams and Bever , 1969 ) . |
| 19 | Some women wore a cloak fastened at the shoulder or breast , and some gathered clothing in at the waist with a girdle , usually secured with a buckle . |
| 20 | A chariot moves at the speed of the creatures pulling it . |
| 21 | The Soviet-US joint venture Telekos is now providing a voice-mail service in Moscow : according to Alexander Gromov , Telekos deputy director , the system runs off a computer installed at the Moscow city telephone exchange ; the mail box has two minutes ' memory for input messages and half a minute for output messages ; the subscription is 1000 roubles hook-up fee plus 2,300 roubles per month . |
| 22 | Again a scientist stands at the point which has at present been reached within a long tradition of enquiry . |
| 23 | Today 's case came out of a fight hear at the Coachmaker 's Arms , but the landlord says the days of Wallingford 's louts are numbered . |
| 24 | In fact I need a hair cut at the moment . |
| 25 | It is not everyone who can boast a Spitfire rebuild at the end of the cabbage patch , but with Spencer masterminding and a couple of chaps from the King Air days — two years later the contents of 35 cardboard boxes in pristine Spitfire formation bearing Spencer 's distinctive red livery , graced the skies . |
| 26 | LATE IN THE AFTERNOON Frankie found himself standing awkwardly by the kitchen door wearing polished shoes that pinched his toes and a shirt fastened at the neck with a large safety-pin . |
| 27 | The day Vonetta came to my flat to talk to me , she was wearing jeans , a white camisole top , and a shirt tied at the waist . |
| 28 | A thin-faced man , balding , in a shirt open at the neck to reveal gold chains , a woman , obviously beautiful in spite of the quality of the photograph , with her hair tied under a scarf Princess Grace style , and another man with a look of the Mediterranean about him whose face was partially obscured by sunglasses . |
| 29 | A nerve jiggled at the corner of Meredith 's mouth because she was beginning to piece small bits of information together and was coming up with a heap of worries . |
| 30 | A photograph taken at the Leeds ceremony reminds one of a Greek pediment , with the Princess Royal ( Chancellor ) and the Vice-Chancellor as the central deities . |