Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In determining whether a haulier is of good repute , the LA looks at the applicant 's conduct generally , not just at any previous convictions he may have . |
| 2 | The Fish-Boy knocked at the door , and a second later a large plate came flying out of an open window . |
| 3 | Now you think I 'm joking , but in fact in the States , people in the States sue at the drop of a hat . |
| 4 | During the Saturday rush at the exhibition , I took breaks from working my way round the stalls to draw a model in the calm of the Hesketh Hubbard stand . |
| 5 | During the Saturday rush at the exhibition , I took breaks from working my way round the stalls to draw a model in the calm of the Hesketh Hubbard stand . |
| 6 | The Archon stared at the general . |
| 7 | The Cherrys kneel at the altar of the Chili Peppers and bare their bellies for a spot of sacrificing . |
| 8 | The Feldwebel stood at the entrance to the corridor turning away people who wanted to come in . |
| 9 | THE BEATLES are suing Sony over their release of an archive bootleg , ‘ The Beatles Live At the Star Club — 1962 ’ . |
| 10 | It was a few minutes after Allen recovered his bow that Friar Tuck and Simon the Trapper arrived at the tree . |
| 11 | The Padre and the two Commandos laughed , one of the Bretons pointing at the Padre with his forefinger , exclaimed , ‘ He is a bloody good shot , Beel ! ’ |
| 12 | Mae Brown , an educational psychologist , liaises with the SSD to look at the assessment and treatment of children who have been sexually abused . |
| 13 | It was quite a shock to learn that the Elsie found at the bottom of Loch Craig was not a twenty-six-year-old woman but a woman in her late fifties or early sixties . |
| 14 | Up the Empire ! ’ to a group of communist students from the UK gathered at the bar of his hotel , promises to do something about the ‘ blooming awful ’ state of Soviet plumbing and ends up making a deal with Stalin with the insouciance of George Formby addressing himself to Hitler . |
| 15 | The Gordon looks at the door , and they 're outside , stuffing pies and sandwiches down their faces . |
| 16 | But since work for the TVEI starts at the age of 14 , two years before the GCSE is to be taken , it is not clear how that examination will fit in ; for it is not yet certain how much vocationalism can be accommodated within the GCSE itself . |
| 17 | In fact , as the THES noted at the time , the dispute leading to this crisis had been simmering in relative privacy for some time . |
| 18 | The UFF vowed at the start of the year to step up attacks and warned : You ai n't seen nothing yet . ’ |
| 19 | The Soviet fixation-on Western-sponsored alliance formation in the Middle East induced great scepticism in the USSR towards regional plans for security coordination developed among the Gulf states at the beginning of the 1980s . |
| 20 | In late July 1989 Saudi Arabia and the United States opened secret talks to extend the life of a floating military base in the Gulf established at the height of the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 21 | Less than half a century ago the Midland stood at the pinnacle of the financial system , the largest bank in the world . |
| 22 | Several papers report a new invention from the USA aimed at the angling market which is supposed to cause fish to go into a feeding frenzy . |
| 23 | The hon. Gentleman is right , too , to tell the House of the warning that the Chief Constable of the RUC gave at the end of last week about the potential level of terrorist violence in the run-up to Christmas . |