Example sentences of "[pron] at [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah , god Who 's that , someone at the door give me that Kim was |
| 2 | Someone at the back shouted ‘ Vive la France ’ and there was a round of ironic applause . |
| 3 | The cases came in a rush , in part because social services started referring a backlog of children because there was someone at the hospital prepared to diagnose , she says , and because Dr Wyatt started asking whether sexual abuse might be the problem in cases which had failed to respond to previous treatment . |
| 4 | We always said that someone at the office called Jenkins had taken me to the local wine bar after work and we 'd run into some old girlfriend of his and Gillian who knew this girl vaguely was with her and we sort of got on immediately and made another date . |
| 5 | The responsibility for bearing human beings was too great for a human being to bear : to bring a child into the world was a terrible thing to do unless you could be sure that there was someone at the end to take it out with at least as much love and care as you had brought it in with . |
| 6 | At a Local Government conference , someone at the venue had put up the mikes but had not checked to make sure they were fixed properly , so they were slowly drooping ! |
| 7 | Still , the application of different principles of design at the two ends could be accounted for in one man 's work : either by supposing that he saw and was overwhelmed by the Theseion mural between designing the east and designing the west ; or , perhaps more convincingly , that he felt a traditional , sculptural style proper to the entrance-front while allowing himself at the back to experiment with a new pictorial interest . |
| 8 | The problem with this 1976- type solution is ( a ) that the army has blood on its own hands , and ( b ) that nobody at the centre has the unchallenged authority of Marshal Ye Jianying who led the 1976 anti-Gang coup . |
| 9 | The solution to these two difficulties was provided by the trust , which at a stroke solved both the problem of third-party involvement and that of enforcement . |
| 10 | This is Sonnet 94 , ‘ which at no point addresses the Friend directly , stands back from the group much as a contemplative soliloquy does from the dialogue of a play ’ . |
| 11 | The DHSS/SSRC initiative , which at the outset looked for explanations of deprivation within families , ended by acknowledging the importance of structural factors . |
| 12 | It was this last point which at the time led to some discomfort about OD . |
| 13 | Hodge had fostered relations with the Korean Democratic Party ( KDP ) , which at the time took a pro-American stance and preferred a continuance of the American occupation to any suggestion of trusteeship . |
| 14 | The only things worth saving were a mulberry , a cherry plum and the Magnolia grandiflora which at the time came barely up to the window and is now heading for the roof . |
| 15 | I noticed the attractive terracotta-tiled floor and another open fireplace which at the time housed the refrigerator . |
| 16 | I was more inclined to enjoy this type of drug as opposed to amphetamines , y'know , which at the time left you feeling a bit uncomfortable the next day . |
| 17 | It was the Anglo-Saxons who adapted the pagan marking of bread with a cross ( which at the time represented the four seasons ) into the Christian symbol for the crucifix . |
| 18 | He was far from being a recluse , however , for in 1842 he joined the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society , which at the time had many eminent members . |
| 19 | Like it or not , democracy ( which at the time meant votes for male workers ) gradually came to be seen as inevitable . |
| 20 | The findings drew attention to the contrast between the teacher-initiated models of ‘ group work ’ which at the time offered the only practical insights and guidance available in the literature ( e.g. Barnes and Todd 1977 , Tann 1981 , Biott and Clough 1983 , Slavin 1983 , Johnson et al . |
| 21 | look at the US , which at the time seemed |
| 22 | Let me give a few examples of vanished empires which at the time seemed invincible . |
| 23 | She used to make things that are now quite commonplace but which at the time seemed really exotic — fabulous cakes like kugelhopf and filled croissants which were wheeled in on a trolley for tea . |
| 24 | A classic study on short term verbal recall seemed to show that reading highly emotional words impairs memory , a finding which at the time seemed to support notions of repression . |
| 25 | Obviously uncertain as to his own musical direction , Moore recorded with Lizzy , but was not a full-time member of the band , which at the time featured Brian Robertson and Scott Gorham . |
| 26 | Introduced by the government for the first time in the Local Government Bill , the county consists of only two districts and is dominated by Cardiff which at the time contained ‘ just about the only pocket of Conservative Party strength in south Wales ’ ( Wond 1976 : 127 ) . |
| 27 | In spite of local cooperative strength there was none in West Ham because of potential conflict with the West Ham Trades Council and Labour Representation Committee , which at the time controlled selection of Labour candidates . |
| 28 | His first challenge was to take charge of a nuclear research centre for C. A. Parsons , which at the time employed 350 graduates and trained scientists , but for which there was little work . |
| 29 | " The Trieste crisis blew up with an intensity which at the time suggested that it might lead to the last battle of the Second World War or the first of the Third World War . " |
| 30 | In 1977 , 22 per cent of female part-time employees were earning less than £15 a week , which at the time defined the boundary of non-employed for social insurance purposes ( that is , neither they nor their employers have to pay national insurance contributions ) . |