Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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1 | I can see why nuns wear white when they take the veil , but when you think of the way everyone goes on at the prospect of the wedding night innocence is the last thing on anyone 's mind . ’ |
2 | Yes , it 's disappointing , but when someone comes in at the last minute then the adrenalin flows and you can have a very lively show . |
3 | But that , it does n't say after the SAT , the written comment can be made er , where we send er D and I reports home at the moment , i.e. er , just after half term in the second term . |
4 | The Clapis area is reached by taking the road to the Col du Cayron , just before Gigondas , then a forestry road which goes right at the col and contours round the hill . |
5 | Behind this board ( called a pathfinder ) is the start boat which motors along at the same speed as the board . |
6 | Last year we had the fine Scottish Opera production in Newcastle , now it is the turn of Darlington with this production , which ends tonight at the Civic Theatre . |
7 | The exhibition which opens today at the Imperial War Museum features their letters and memories of the time , along with those of their fellow Atlantic evacuees . |
8 | Some cars can be fitted with a passenger seat which swings outwards at the touch of a lever to face the door , so that the patient does not have to twist to enter or leave the car . |
9 | I personally want us to win the game well , to resurrect team morale which seems halfmast at the mo . |
10 | competition from the new commodity , the new technology , the new source of supply , the new type of organization … competition which commands a decisive cost or quality advantage and which strikes not at the margins of the profits and the outputs of the existing firms ( and possibly even entire national economies ) but it their foundations and their very lives . |
11 | The drama course for professional performers which does not at the present time qualify for a mandatory award , is fully accredited by the National Council of Drama Training as is the Acting Option of the Graduate Diploma course . |
12 | Plugged into an amp the EQ takes things from bright , jangling treble to a fat bass which feeds back at the lowest volumes when the relevant slider is pushed way up . |
13 | The most explicit line in the piece , is a line from Owen 's poem , ‘ Strange Meeting ’ which comes almost at the end of the baritone solo in the last section of the War Requiem , the quietly and simply sung , |
14 | Statements by the West German Bundesbank indicate that it views monetary union as a state which comes only at the end of a very long process of economic convergence . |
15 | Cantilever An outsole which flares out at the bottom to dissipate shock and aid cushioning and stability . |
16 | Yet the aim is for individuals on both sides to come together and explore , ex tempore , mutual areas of interest in the conference venue , the Glasgow Hilton , ( ’ I expect a lot of the business to be done in the corridors ’ , said Howell ) or at the Computer Solutions Show which runs simultaneously at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre . |
17 | Glennis Park , from The Comet , Hurworth , is on a temporary six-month lease which runs out at the end of June . |
18 | God help the feller who turns up at the factory to work in silk knickers under his overalls , but at Christmas , of course , on a stage , of course , it 's all perfectly all right . |
19 | Erm , and that 's about it really , erm , she lives in at the minute , and this was a gentleman called in the sky . |
20 | Thus it is Pippin who looks up at the sun and the banners and offers comfort to Beregond , and Merry who never loses heart when even Théoden appears prey to ‘ horror and doubt ’ . |
21 | But then I 've got ta meet Emma and she stands up at the top . |
22 | A person who holds over at the end of a lease is not a trespasser until demand is made , as only the person in possession can be trespassed against ( Hey v Moorhouse ( 1839 ) 6 Bing NC 52 ) . |
23 | She looks up at the grey clouds scudding across the sky , down at a vista of narrow back gardens , some neat and trim with goldfish ponds and brightly painted play equipment , others tatty and neglected , cluttered with broken appliances and discarded furniture . |
24 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
25 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
26 | She looks down at the figure slumped in the chair , sees the skull under the frail skin which hangs loosely from the bone , at once tight and yet with too much of it , the bony fingers picking at the fringes of the rug . |
27 | When she arrives back at the WPGET 's headquarters , she will find that Alison Nicholas , a key player in the 1992 Solheim Cup , has handed in her notice as a member of the WPGET 's board . |
28 | Her eyes are hot , she stares out at the water , at the summerhouse . |
29 | Carreras will sing arias from Verdi 's La Traviata and Donizetti 's L'Elisir d'amore , and a duet from Lehar 's The Merry Widow with Yvonne Kenny , who opens tomorrow at the Royal Opera House in the title role of Handel 's Alcina . |
30 | Their aim is to deny the batsman room to play the ball away square of the wicket and wide of the fieldsmen in the V. They occasionally bowl a slower delivery to upset the timing of the batsman who swings uniformly at the ball in the expectation that it will always come on the bat at the same speed . |