Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he had left the University of California , Santa Barbara , he had taught literature at a school in Battle Creek , Michigan . |
| 2 | They made camp at the top of a bank by a fallen tree . |
| 3 | They made camp at the top of a bank by a fallen tree . |
| 4 | There was a small , partly hidden gully at the base of the cliff and there , grazing on the scurvy grass , was yet another bear . |
| 5 | But , when you 're doing that you make assessment at the end of it to say what level you have , you 've got to target specifically at certain things . |
| 6 | From the late 1620s onwards , a significant number of courtiers had begun to attend mass at the queen 's chapel and a steady stream of them subsequently became converts to Roman Catholicism . |
| 7 | This was partly accidental : he became archbishop at a time when the expansive energies of the Norman conquerors were beginning to make an impression in Scotland , in Wales , and — very tentatively — in Ireland . |
| 8 | Possibly the first Inn was the Five Bells , which was probably the ale house mentioned in 1586 , when William Cokar of Halling was sent to gaol for keeping an ale house and allowing gambling i.e. maintaining play at the dice of his own authority as a result of which he was bound , over to the next Sessions . |
| 9 | It is up to the Secretary of State , if he keeps internment on the books as he has told us he will , to begin to educate people throughout this kingdom about the need to implement internment at a time that he judges correct — when he is advised by the Chief Constable and the GOC to do so . |
| 10 | The afternoon dance publicised in The Northern Echo yesterday and run by the Dolphin Sunday Dance Club at the Dolphin Centre , Darlington , is not taking place tomorrow . |
| 11 | Doctors ' desires to advance specialisms that they find intellectually exciting , university lecturers pursuing research at the expense of their teaching commitments , engineers wishing to develop technologically advanced products such as Concorde , are just a few examples of the kind of professional aspirations that lead to the misallocation of resources from the clients ' or taxpayers ' point of view . |
| 12 | Before Christine or Ann or any of the other girls playing realised what was happening , the pram began to run down the steep bank , gathering speed at every turn of its wheels . |
| 13 | And conversely , in the exalté atmosphere of Northern Nigeria , a Resident who admitted defeat at the hands of his emir was deemed to be guilty of two unpardonable sins : he disgraced by his ineptitude the good name of the British Colonial Service ; and he brought the whole principle of local administrative autonomy into disrepute . |
| 14 | Mrs Hollidaye met Dot at the train with the Ford drawn right up to the station exit . |
| 15 | And I accept there are a number here of items , I mean there 's er another one that Peter mentions which was the er large thorn plants to discourage the children from climbing the newly erected fence at the nature reserve . |
| 16 | When his trial opened on May 26 he had been charged with complicity in genocide , and the presiding judge had only substituted the lesser charge of instigating murder at the moment of reaching a verdict . |
| 17 | Garvey , of Sandwell Avenue , Middlesbrough , is expecting to stand trial at the Crown Court for the alleged offence but magistrates decided neither case could go ahead after Garvey 's solicitor Jimmy Watson failed to appear . |
| 18 | Civil engineers were checking damage at the site yesterday . |
| 19 | The commander had reminded him only the day before of the need to use manpower more efficiently : the government was no longer inclined to keep tossing money at the police force without seeing results . |
| 20 | The endometrium itself will undergo change at the point of implantation . |
| 21 | He gained his first knowledge of practical politics as a member of the London county council , and entered Parliament at a by-election in Lewisham West in 1938 , retaining the seat till the Conservative débâcle of 1945 . |
| 22 | We submitted a carefully considered response at the end of June , since when there has been a deafening silence . |
| 23 | During a debate on party organisation , some representatives complained that Conservative Central Office was not providing Tory workers with the necessary back-up to sustain and win support at the grass roots . |
| 24 | I 'll leave it at that , erm , rate book , it needs practice at the end of the day . |
| 25 | Due to sudden and unexpected problems the last Q.T. day had to have a shortened and condensed programme and it was not possible to provide tea at the end of the day . |
| 26 | McRae 's Subaru coughed like a grizzly bear , went sideways into the first of a thousand bends , spitting grit in lacerating force at a lot of spectators , as brave as the men they had come to admire then disappeared into the foreboding conifers of Grizedale Forest . |
| 27 | So begin along these lines : With respect , Minister , it 's to do with explaining action at a distance . |
| 28 | To cap it all , cable-car access from the other side would guarantee tea at the top and a tourist audience — what more was needed ? |
| 29 | Lorry wheels had dug furrows in it , uncovering rock at the bottom . |
| 30 | And she got about half a dozen of the strongest boys from standard one to stand guard at the door . |