Example sentences of "at [det] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a salutary reminder of the powerful implications of teacher enthusiasm : no doubt at least part of the popularity of any text has as much to do with the way it is taught , as with characteristics embodied in the text itself . |
| 2 | The actions taken by both leaders and followers have , at each turn of the wheel of fortune , helped to create the next round of change . |
| 3 | At each turn of the zigzag , the wheelbarrow toppled , and when I was tacking into the wind , grit , picked up by the wheel was blown into my eyes and mouth . |
| 4 | These targets were decided at each location by a management team drawn from right across the site . |
| 5 | As we mentioned in Chapter 5 , at this stage you need only time-table three or perhaps four exercise routines per week ( where you get slightly breathless at each session for a half-hour period ) in order to keep up a reasonable degree of fitness . |
| 6 | They were also at times short of water , although they no doubt learnt to manage on very little , and their encampments would have been spread out to take advantage of several watercourses at each halt in the journey . |
| 7 | Epictetus looked at each event from the point of view of his whole life and its freedom and the courage and steadfastness that he wished to possess . |
| 8 | There were 200 seats with a substantial middle-class element , and these were overwhelmingly Unionist at each election between the wars . |
| 9 | A pair of tysties are displaying at each other on a ledge , their high-pitched calls extending even beyond our human audio range , judging by the soundless opening of vermilion-lined beaks . |
| 10 | They glared at each other for a second longer , then Ryker turned the lock and pushed the door open . |
| 11 | They stared at each other for a moment before Mick added , ‘ You 've never seen Carrie for years , have you ? ’ |
| 12 | They stared at each other for a moment in tense silence ; then gripping the aide of the bedclothes , he swung them upwards and exposed to his amazed gaze her grey outdoor coat . |
| 13 | Hazel and Blackberry , after looking at each other for a moment , caught him up and went beside him . |
| 14 | The two men glared at each other for a moment . |
| 15 | They stared at each other for a moment , then Ursula added , emphasizing every word : ‘ Please leave my home . |
| 16 | The two men looked at each other for a moment , no doubt exchanging of those wordless communications that women contrive now and then . |
| 17 | They stared at each other for a moment , then Ward said , ‘ All right . |
| 18 | They stared at each other for a moment , not exactly hostile , more two people measuring each other up . |
| 19 | They blinked at each other for a moment at close quarters , wide-eyed and brow to brow . |
| 20 | They stared at each other for a moment . |
| 21 | The men looked at each other for a moment , then glanced away quickly . |
| 22 | The innkeeper , in Coleridge 's version of events , could remember nothing remotely suspicious in the activities either of Coleridge or the ‘ strange gentleman ’ from Alfoxden , though he did recall the amazement of some local farmers when , at a great dinner party , Coleridge and the vicar of Stowey had talked ‘ real Hebrew Greek at each other for an hour together ’ . |
| 23 | He and Branson looked at each other with the candour of two people who know they are utterly different , but for one shared resolution . |
| 24 | THE PARENTS of a bride and groom glared at each other across a courtroom yesterday — in an amazing dust-up over the bill for their wedding reception . |
| 25 | Or partners may look at each other across the breakfast table once the children have left home and ask themselves what they still have in common . |
| 26 | Youths in outsize hats , lounging in the doorways of shops and cafes , with hands thrust deep into their pockets , gossip and smoke , jog on the spot to keep warm , or lob snowballs at each other across the road , over the roofs of passing cars . |
| 27 | ‘ We will shake hands before the game , then shout at each other across the dug-outs during the match , and shake hands again afterwards , ’ said Souness . |
| 28 | They glared at each other across the table , two people in early middle age who had had the same quarrel in the same words many times . |
| 29 | There was silence as they looked at each other across the table . |
| 30 | They sat down beneath the shade of an umbrella , and looked at each other across the table . |