Example sentences of "at [art] [noun] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 That it was at the seaside made it seem all the worse .
2 Looking at the road makes me notice that old white van .
3 Only at the Opéra do they beat time without obeying it ; everywhere else in Europe they obey it without beating it .
4 I I did say to you at the beginning do you think er men hate women ?
5 Was there a specification set at the beginning do you know on this
6 His lips were only inches from hers when Rosa 's tap at the door made him lift his dark head .
7 Only at the door did he give Coffin a look of such sharp comprehension that any triumph he felt evaporated at once .
8 Staring for too long at the simularity made him feel dizzy .
9 I 'm just trying to get them at the back did you know ?
10 Seeing it on the noticeboard at the workhouse made me think … but I ca n't be sure any more .
11 One of the guys at the gate helped me give the Fiasco a push .
12 Fold the four playing tokens ( pictures of party leaders ) at the base to make them stand .
13 Only at the end did his voice thicken : otherwise brimming self-confidence , he overcame lack of sleep , the exhaustion that comes from travelling 8,000 miles in 21 days , and the pressure of being constantly in the spotlight .
14 I did n't know him and only at the end did he wish to know me . ’
15 On arriving at the flat did you speak to Mr ?
16 At the college do you mean ?
17 Because so many of the people who , so many people at the moment feel I think that they , they have very little real influence , and that 's why people do n't turn up , it 's why people do n't vote for local government .
18 What sort of twisted thoughts went through my father 's brain at the time to make him choose such a name for the child I can not start to imagine , but that was the name Angus chose for his new son .
19 Akram 's hour at the crease saw him punish Salisbury , take his side into the lead , survive at catch to Malcolm 's outstretched hand at deep mid-off , and finally go , bamboozled , when Salisbury put a googly , from wide of the crease , around the wicket , between the batsman 's legs and into the stumps : 263 for 7 .
20 I do think we 've got to bear in mind that when you are looking at a change does it apply to everybody .
21 He was the sort of guy who jumped at every opportunity to make you look small . ’
22 One of the classic findings of media research in British election campaigns is Trenaman and McQuail 's ( 1961 ) assertion that ‘ the evidence strongly suggests that people think about what they are told … but at no level do they think what they are told ’ .
23 At no stage do we say now this happens ( the counter at A actually clicks ) but always then this happens ( if then the counter at A clicks ) .
24 The National Industrial Relations Court found that at no stage were the employees asked if they were prepared to move to Fulham and at no stage did they indicate that they were prepared to move .
25 At no stage did I say that , nor do we believe it .
26 But at no stage did he deny that these conditions are part of the explanation .
27 At no time did we throw the towel in .
28 Because of the wholesale integration of the theory and practice of the party into the national cultural formation , at no time did it promote its working-class constituency as an agent of social change .
29 Fisons adds that at no time did it use ‘ beer kegs ’ for storage during the manufacture of Imferon and that the bulk intermediate storage vessels , which looked like beer kegs , have now been replaced .
30 Laing was at pains to stress that at no time did he feel under pressure : ‘ It was that I 'd never been caught before and I did n't know what to do .
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