Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mountfield , prising himself away momentarily from the Tipton Terror , met the ball at the far post to score the kind of goal that was his trademark at Everton . |
| 2 | CHRISTINE Elliott enjoyed every minute working for her Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award — and when she met the Duke at the presentation ceremony she told him so . |
| 3 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 4 | There were minor differences in the arrangement of the hand-rails , they lacked the loop at the end of the dash top rail and there were typical Brush brackets supporting the stair landings . |
| 5 | They took a bus to Regent Street and posted the letter at the Heddon Street post office . |
| 6 | We swayed down the long baggage car , which was half empty of freight and very noisy , and George , having told me to remove and lay aside my waistcoat in case I got oil on it , unlocked the door at the far end . |
| 7 | Drago unlocked the door at the top of the stairs , and led the way into a high narrow storeroom . |
| 8 | Stephen seemed unperturbed , and she felt stupid for allowing the scene at the airport to upset her so much . |
| 9 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 10 | More brilliance still would be given to the tune if the trumpets doubled the trombone at the octave above . |
| 11 | They were all questions which both puzzled and disturbed him , yet at the same time he knew she was the key to helping him expose the diversion at the plant . |
| 12 | The most recent feasibility study , completed in November 1988 , recommended building the dam at the eastern end of the Yangtze 's famous Three Gorges , one of the world 's scenic wonders . |
| 13 | Strategy 1 involves the purchase at the beginning of the year of all the shares in the stock index ( i.e. all the shares in the FTSE100 index with the appropriate weights ) . |
| 14 | This usually involves removing three or four screws and sliding or rotating the lip at the front of the cover away from the retaining slot under the case front . |
| 15 | Greenpeace had taken one of its boats , the Cedarlea , to monitor the radioactivity at the end of the Sellafield discharge pipeline . |
| 16 | Perhaps he hoped to bluff the policeman at the gate . |
| 17 | In a pique against Harlequins last Saturday he flung the ball at the opposition tighthead prop and was lucky not to be sent off . |
| 18 | I flung the accusation at the smiling Agrippa . |
| 19 | He flung the contract at the feet of the American . |
| 20 | The Sutherland and Ross-shire county boundary runs down the middle of the loch , touching the coast at the outlet of Kirkaig River , and Fionn collects in waters from hundreds of square miles , gathering them from as far away as Loch Borralan , at Atnacealgach , Urigill , Cama , the ‘ crooked loch ’ , and long , windswept Veyatie , below Cul Mor . |
| 21 | In 1929 he reached the pinnacle of educational success when he passed the agregation at the Ecole Normale Superieure in the company of Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir . |
| 22 | He did n't see anyone down there , but he insists that as he passed the alcove at the end of the gallery , he had the strong impression that someone was sitting in there , watching him . ’ |
| 23 | Erm , that the , that we should support the principle , we agreed the principle at the last meeting , in support of the business link and satellite in Oswestry , that we should sup support the principle of supporting a business link satellite in Craven Arms , and that we should appoint a representative to the business links board . |
| 24 | To some extent , SCI has a rival in the Futurebus+ architecture , also an IEEE standard , born in the 1970s but only now gaining recognition : both are set to hit the market at the same time . |
| 25 | You can use several Pump Wagons together , or advance them with chariots or big monsters , but their random move means you ca n't rely on them to hit the enemy at the same time . |
| 26 | Mr Poole said there was evidence that some ambulance workers in the shires had been breaching the ban at the request of managers . |
| 27 | I wanted as far as possible to forearm the boy at the beginning of adolescence — not ramming a weapon into his hand willy-nilly , but showing him the size and shape of it and where it lies in such a way that he would take it up without realizing he was doing so and find himself using it when he needed to . |
| 28 | John Duggan , who was re-elected as chairman of the Castlewellan Hospital Support Group , made the plea at the group 's annual meeting . |
| 29 | It was a sound that made the hair at the back of Connelly 's neck rise . |
| 30 | Elie Wiesel , who acts as America 's tireless conscience on the subject of the slaughtered Jews , himself made the parallel at the memorial 's dedication . |