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 .
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