Example sentences of "at [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The two-year-old was snatched to safety by his quick-thinking dad Bob seconds before the off-target skydiver swooped down , frantically yelling at crowds to get out of the way . |
2 | I particularly remember him at parties diving out of the window for fresh air . |
3 | THE honours were shared at todays opening round of the Ulster Motocross championships at Desertmartin were Philip Neill and David White collected maximum points in the opening races . |
4 | According to this system , Structure Plans are supposed to spawn District Plans : the District Plans are supposed to look at problems set out in the Structure Plan in more depth , and they are supposed to show how general planning policies might be worked out in practice . |
5 | A Committee sponsored by the Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government to " look at problems arising out of the apparent failure … of government and industry to work together effectively " argued that " industrialists have been justified in recent years in criticising the government for failing to provide a stable economic framework within which they can plan and invest in the long-term " . |
6 | But Foucault 's own subsequent work shows that it could not really be a question of choice on these terms , for the simple reason that , as he himself is at pains to point out in The Order of Things , history is itself a discursive practice : while the latter can not be simply equated with the textual , it can not be crudely opposed to it either . |
7 | Most of the hour Richard spent pacing up and down the corridor , stopping at windows to look out between the buildings at bare trees and transparent hedges . |