Example sentences of "[verb] at an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sort of rebounding abuse , the trickster tricked , the reader ( ironically ) laughing at an image he does not realize is his own , that she describes , is indeed a pattern that is found in some fabliaux . |
| 2 | He kicked gently and rose at an angle towards the ceiling . |
| 3 | He was educated at an orphanage in Blackheath . |
| 4 | CREAMING JESUS , HEADCLEANER , FOREHEADS IN A FISHTANK appear at an Anti-Racist-Action benefit show at London 's Powerhaus on August 27 , tickets priced £4 each . |
| 5 | Press accounts of the IAEA 's report based on the preliminary findings of its sixth inspection team [ see p. 38451 ] indicated that there was conclusive proof of an extensive Iraqi nuclear weapons programme , the hub of which was located at an installation in Al Atheer , about 60 km south of Baghdad . |
| 6 | A glider pilot has suffered a broken leg in a crash landing at an R-A-F base . |
| 7 | Rollers were wound at an angle , spiralling hair around the curlers to give a firm pincurled result . |
| 8 | Stukeley 's brief description ( p. 84 , Vol. i ) reads ‘ Brigcasterton … was fenced about with a deep mote on two sides , the river supplying its use on the other two ; for it stands at an angle , and the Romans made a little curve in the road here on purpose to take it in , as it offered itself so conveniently , then rectified the obliquity on the other side of the town ; it consists of one street running through its length upon the road ; the great ditch and banks are called the Dikes . |
| 9 | Working on irregular square sections , hair was then lifted at an angle from the head for maximum lift . |
| 10 | The Kazakh Communist Party voted at an emergency congress on Sept. 8 to withdraw from the CPSU and become the independent Socialist Party of Kazakhstan ( SPK ) . |
| 11 | The 100 kg of nitrogen-methane and ammonium nitrate was detonated at an altitude of 300 km , just poleward of an auroral arc . |
| 12 | On the third night they stopped at an inn which was attached to a relay station . |
| 13 | He stopped at an ale-house to leave further messages with Tab the tinker for Benedicta and Watkin ; they were to lock the church after morning Mass and , if the widow felt so inclined , she should take Bonaventure back to her own house . |
| 14 | She stopped at an off-licence and recklessly bought pink champagne . |
| 15 | They stopped at an orchid farm , spending an hour just wandering through vast greenhouses , filled with blooms of every conceivable colour and variety , some headily perfumed , others with no scent at all . |
| 16 | Fashion : Parisian poet clothed in wit : Charlotte Du Cann looks at an exhibition to mark the centenary of Jean Cocteau 's birth |
| 17 | Each programme looks at an area of the Church 's teaching , through the stories of individual Catholics , while wider issues raised are discussed by Catholic Theologians and commentators . |
| 18 | Ambiguous as to whether or not Singer drowned himself , it looks at an era — 1964 to 1979 — during which the spirit of rapacious capitalism he personified was at any rate submerged . |
| 19 | Moreover , the main cloud base lies at an altitude of about 48 km , which by Earth standards is a very high cloud base . |
| 20 | Captain Herbert Westmacott charged at an Antrim Road door with his anti-terror team and was mown down in a hail of M-60 machine-gun bullets . |
| 21 | I 've never looked at an elephant 's eyelashes before . |
| 22 | ‘ As far as I can see , ’ he continued , giving his grandmother a look of clearly mingled liking and exasperation , ‘ my grandmother has n't looked at an employment application in five years . |
| 23 | The vines grow at an altitude of between 140 and 240 metres , although those growing between 160 and 220 metres are the most successful . |
| 24 | So , even if the car is parked at an angle where the mercury switch is continuously closed , the timer will be allowed to operate providing the vehicle remains stationary . |
| 25 | According to the historian Polybius , the founding of Rome occurred at an Olympiad dating corresponding to 750 BC . |
| 26 | Thus , at Great Houghton near Barnsley Sir Edward Rhodes built a chapel c. 1650 in his own grounds and Dissenting forms of worship were used there well into the eighteenth century , but it was reported at an archbishop 's visitation in 1743 that the family had returned to the Anglican fold and ‘ This Chapel is now united to the Church of England ’ . |
| 27 | Proposals from the Professional Footballers Association that former players should be promoted more quickly will be considered at an FA referees ' committee meeting on December 19 . |
| 28 | Proposals from the Professional Footballers Association that former players should be promoted more quickly will be considered at an FA referees ' committee meeting on December 19 . |
| 29 | The General shouted at an infantry lieutenant who was sheltering in an alley from the desultory Prussian fire . |
| 30 | If a garden design is turned at an angle to the boundaries then one helps to create a feeling of greater space by using those longer lines . |