Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | UN flies bodies home THE BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen were flown home to Pakistan yesterday as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days ’ . |
| 2 | BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen in Mogadishu were flown home to Pakistan as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days . ’ |
| 3 | But on this day , an unusually cloudless Sunday late in October , I had travelled from Cornwall ; the train was two hours late , and I rushed , humping my case , past the mute crowds gazing up at the information board , towards the taxi rank . |
| 4 | He looked down at Tom 's heavy brown ankle boots , his thick navy overcoat and the green corduroy cap with the tufts of white hair sticking out at either side . |
| 5 | ‘ He thinks I 'm his mother ’ she said blissfully , as Patrick gazed up at her from her lap — dolls will never be quite the same again . |
| 6 | The wind was blowing hard at the Highlanders ' faces , according to the literature given out at the Culloden Visitors ' Centre , and the two armies were in position at one o'clock , approximately four to five hundred yards apart . |
| 7 | Ackroyd pastiches Dickens in form rather than style — which is to say that this book is very long , Dickensianly long ( the main text signs off at page 1084 , where it gives way to a fat coda of source notes , bibliography and index ) . |
| 8 | Steven 's hair flies out at phew ptong . |
| 9 | Earlier she had listened intently as a statement by Cheshires commanding officer Lt Col Bob Stewart read out at the hearing told how L/Cpl Edwards ' killer had not been traced . |
| 10 | A large picture of the Sacred Heart gazed down at her , the blue-eyed Saviour with his smooth red hair and silky beard looked faintly sorrowful . |
| 11 | Since many people are unable to meet the costs of litigation from their own resources , the availability of representation under the legal aid scheme will often be the crucial factor in deciding whether the case goes on at all . |
| 12 | As I have already noted , some kind of political change goes on at all times , produced by the succession of generations , the rise and fall of dynasties , competition among various social groups , economic and cultural developments , changing external circumstances , and more idiosyncratic factors , which can only be understood fully through detailed historical studies . |
| 13 | For two weeks Uli and I have spent every daylight hour gazing up at it , seeing it in its flesh and bone , so to speak , for the first time — yet so utterly familiar and loved . ’ |
| 14 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 15 | It was like the scene where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid start to rob yet another ‘ easy ’ train , only to find an armed and mounted posse leaping out at them . |
| 16 | Reactions Carried Out at Constsnt Volume |
| 17 | Reactions Carried Out at Constant Pressure |
| 18 | The present looks back at some great figure of an earlier century and wonders , Was he on our side ? |
| 19 | The princess , in a royal purple suit-dress , pushed on in front to sign the visitors ' book while the prince wandered off at the end , leaving his wife in his wake . |
| 20 | Inside were two fairly small square rooms , one each side of the front door , with a roomy kitchen built on at the back . |
| 21 | The system of planning controls imposes limits on their freedom to locate operations where they will or to increase the scale , or change the nature , of the activities carried on at a particular site . |
| 22 | That was the trouble with harbour-watching , there were so many inexplicable activities carried on at a stately pace and with the deliberation of a choreographed performance . |
| 23 | It will be intriguing to see how Brecht 's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold . |
| 24 | For a drainage level to come in at this depth would have required some 600 ft. of tunnelling and of course , since the art of blasting was not yet introduced , it would have been a protracted and costly operation . |
| 25 | The door opened a short way , and a small elderly lady with soft cotton-wool hair peered out at them . |
| 26 | All the pubs and clubs empty out at the same time . |
| 27 | No Lisa , Lisa lives out at Tidybig |
| 28 | He still did n't know whose side to take when Mum carried on at us but she never came to the shed while we were chopping wood with him , so we had a retreat . |
| 29 | Lyndhurst West looks back at COMDEX , and decides what 's hot , and what 's not in Coming our way . |
| 30 | Where a transfer of value is made by associated operations carried out at different times it shall be treated as made at the time of the last of them . |