Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was angry , but a bit pleased at the same time . |
| 2 | In a referendum held at the same time as the elections , 78 per cent of voters supported a new Constitution which provided for a directly elected President to appoint a Prime Minister who would in turn appoint a Cabinet , with all appointments requiring parliamentary approval . |
| 3 | The ad shows a crook gazing at the busty , mini-skirted girls and asks : ‘ Who 's giving your bag the eye ? ’ |
| 4 | She skirted its edge and at last spotted a possible entry , finding a stick to whack at the jagged branches of an old dogrose . |
| 5 | The new title ‘ Officer Board ’ , replacing ‘ Consultative and Advisory Council ’ was a decision made at the Special Delegate Meeting in March . |
| 6 | A confidential US Defence Department report had concluded that China 's sale of missiles to Saudi Arabia [ see pp. 36254 ; 36312 ] had been the result of a decision taken at the highest level of government to confront the USA in the Middle East . |
| 7 | The system also manages to incorporate a handrail running at the same speed as the walkway — an advance compared with most single speed systems . |
| 8 | It required but a single coincidence , whereby an apparent answer to a prayer arrived at the appropriate time , to make him believe that his objects of supplication had powers beyond himself , and had brought him relief . |
| 9 | I am a present looking at the dozen or so cones sitting on the floor and am making up my mind to do something with them , but even with ingenious ideas , how does one find time with all that knitting to do ? |
| 10 | One of the finest of the towers commemorates Gregorio di Gregorio , a third generation patrician of the early thirteenth century — heir to a succession established at the first high point of San Gimignano 's revived prosperity , in the middle of the twelfth century . |
| 11 | The Manchester study is linked with a study based at the Social Science Research Unit in London which considers the social support needs of a group of socially disadvantaged women and children . |
| 12 | Ronni was still fizzing with indignation — how dared he make fun of her ? — when , sure enough , a car arrived at the front door , laden with dishes dovered in tin foil . |
| 13 | Once you have worked out how many hits your first shot has caused you may , if you wish , fire a second shot at the same target , then a third , and so on . |
| 14 | Revised proposals are expected from the Commission later this year , before they are put back for a second reading at the European Parliament . |
| 15 | A lady arrives at the front counter with something to be looked at . |
| 16 | A hound spoke at the far end of the wood . |
| 17 | Then they were a single out away from going one game up in Dodger Stadium — only for Kirk Gibson to turn the Series on its head with a home run at the last moment . |
| 18 | A diplomat working at the military attaché 's office in Ankara , the Turkish capital , was seriously injured on Oct. 16 , 1989 , when a bomb exploded in his car . |
| 19 | Clydal was almost brought to a standstill approaching the home-turn , having received a might bump at the initial bend , but remained undeterred in his victory bid . |
| 20 | The PKK claimed responsibility for two incidents in Istanbul on Aug. 28 in which a ferry was set on fire , damaging a bridge , and a bomb exploded at the British consulate-general . |
| 21 | In part this has been due to a failure to look at the right parts of the higher order visual cortex , using the right stimuli . |
| 22 | But it is going to be necessary because , by the time the later subjects come on stream , there will certainly be a need to look at the first ones again , such as maths and science . |
| 23 | He lingered for a moment sneering at the guilty red core that was revealed beneath the stucco of lime and sand . |
| 24 | Greek tragedy , he impressed on his audience , had been a total art form , a Gesamtkunst ( Wagner 's slogan , although Wagner 's name was not mentioned ) , to suit an age of whole men:a poetic drama that made use of architecture ( the theatre ) , painting ( scenery and costume ) , song , dance and music ; a drama created amid " perfection and harmony " by " artistic man " , who , at least in the earlier part of the fifth century , the time of Aeschylus , was poet , composer , conductor , producer and actor in one ; a drama performed at the communal festival of Dionysus before an audience which brought to the theatre something of the instinctive , rapturous spirit from which , in the Dionysiac celebrations , tragedy had originated in the first place . |
| 25 | At a meeting held at the local headquarters of the WSPU , " Mr Buckner , a prominent official in the STA , who spoke to the question from the men 's point of view , was subjected to a very severe heckling . " |
| 26 | The next definition , which we formulate from a desire to get at the fundamental building blocks as far as multiplication in Z is concerned , is intentionally unconventional , introducing , as it does , a familiar concept in an unfamiliar way . |
| 27 | They were still evacuating the area when a device exploded at the Northern Bank . |
| 28 | Local leaders attributed it to a request made at the Russian Congress of People 's Deputies by the Chair of South Ossetia 's Supreme Soviet , Torez Kolumbegov , for the autonomous region in Georgia to be reintegrated in the Russian Federation [ for January referendum in favour of reintegration see pp. 38731-32 ] . |
| 29 | Good presentation : dress standards of a person working at the highest levels of large corporations . |
| 30 | But it seems clear that this one bears the marks of defeat and despair , and of a reprisal directed at the liberal England which has let the violator down . |