Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shouting and laughing , the family disembarked at a broken-down council estate covered in rubbish . |
| 2 | The wherry pulled in and we disembarked at the great garden gate . |
| 3 | First , it is appropriate for those working with a child to try to communicate at the right level ; this means introducing language structures with which the child is already familiar and trying to ensure that the content of conversations is appropriate to the child 's ability to understand and to her interests . |
| 4 | In any plausible way of forming Jupiter the hydrogen and helium are initially well mixed at a molecular level . |
| 5 | DNA and protein were mixed at an approximate ratio of 2:1 . |
| 6 | Discarded and shredded by the Bank of England and banknote manufacturer Thomas De La Rue , the paper money has been mixed at the Botanic Centre with sludge from a KP crisp factory on Teesside to form a peat-free compost . |
| 7 | It makes your heart beat at an invigorating pace . |
| 8 | Gratefully Gina covered her nakedness , marvelling at the strange circumstances in which she found herself . |
| 9 | Walking through her kitchen and cutting gardens at break-neck speed , marvelling at the weedless beds , and pyramids of purple clematis , the imposing topiary ( ‘ Russell [ Page ] used to tell me , ‘ Let them get fluffy and fabulous ’ ’ ) , Mrs Guest is in full flood : ‘ Oh , those chipmunks are wrecking my garden , ’ she declares , straightening a single toppled plant in an acreage of formidable order , and tugging nimbly at a lone weed . |
| 10 | Passing the township , both brakes jammed on , I slither and judder down the newly regravelled surface , hoping for something to pass and pick me up , but also marvelling at the open splendour of the valley scenery which surprises me afresh every time I look . |
| 11 | The animal , alarmed by such rapid movement , now sprang to his full height , his great unsheathed paws beating the air as he strained at the massive steel collar around his neck . |
| 12 | The only medal we had ever won at a major championship since 1978 was the bronze we had gained at Stuttgart in the European . |
| 13 | If CFC emissions continue to increase at the current rate , they would cause an extra 2C of warming over the same period . |
| 14 | Inflation was estimated to increase at an annual rate of 4.5 per cent for 1990 , according to the OECD World Economic Outlook . |
| 15 | indeed , was beginning to increase at an alarming rate — the resources to meet the challenge were simply not to hand . |
| 16 | A trader seeking to buy dollars ( for example ) in the forward market will buy at a forward rate which is less advantageous to him ( that is , if the exchange rate is defined as the sterling price of a dollar , f t may be greater than ) . |
| 17 | Phyllis is very particular about cleanliness , which is why she always shops at the new branch of Safeways . |
| 18 | Mehrabad , as previously mentioned , was attacked at the very beginning of the war . |
| 19 | The reason for this is simple : you will never be able to judge the precise moment of impact , so brace for it long beforehand , fly at the correct speed , keep the wings level and do n't try to round out unless you are absolutely sure you can see the surface . |
| 20 | Finally , I have argued that urban sociology 's key concern is the division between everyday life being led in small-scale localities and the fact that social relations and processes are increasingly organised at a global level . |
| 21 | As social life becomes increasingly organised at a global level , the sphere of employment perhaps offers least prospect for the assertion of autonomy and personal identity . |
| 22 | Prototype units were designed at the international workshops and discussed and modified in the field for the APSP was far more decentralised than the Mathematics programme . |
| 23 | I suppose we were the first people in the 1960s to target our market and bring to people things that were well designed at an affordable price . |
| 24 | On the back of Wall Street 's overnight strength , the FT-SE 100 cash index rose 33 points at the outset and , with the futures index opening at a hefty premium , looked poised to turn in a record-setting performance . |
| 25 | A loud banging at the front door stopped both of them in their tracks . |
| 26 | She had desperately scrambled at the shiny sides of the toilet-bowl as she slid into the water but to no avail . |
| 27 | Small holes were drilled at the appropriate places , to accept the pin of a large thumb-tack and the sleeve of my mechanical pencil . |
| 28 | His suicide , in protest at the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the forces of the Warsaw Pact — only Romania declined to participate - seemed to catch at the Western conscience as somehow symbolic of those dreadful days , though it produced no result other than a further deepening of the Cold War . |
| 29 | The digested DNA ( 5 µg ) was treated with T4 DNA polymerase ( final concentration , 67 mU/ml ) at 15°C for 15 min in the presence of a high concentration of the four deoxynucleotides ( final concentration of each deoxynucleotide , 100 µM ) , extracted with phenol-chloroform , precipitated with ethanol , and self-ligated with T4 ligase at a low DNA concentration ( 10 ng/µl ) to circularize plasmid DNA . |
| 30 | The main problem with MI6 at the time was that all the senior people were amateurs who had joined MI6 only because they had gone to the right school , wore the right sort of tie and dined at the right clubs . |