Example sentences of "[verb] at the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It beat at the stonework and screamed about projections . |
| 2 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |
| 3 | Despite the fact that the explanation or defence could , if true , have been disclosed at the outset and despite the advantage which the defendant has gained by these tactics , no comment may be made to the jury to that effect . |
| 4 | You see , he was exceptionally nice and he used to lecture at the colleges and er he was a real , very nice gentleman and er and so he , of course he , he , he took his drink across to the table with him and sometimes I took it for him it just depend and he , he wrote this book and er I forget now , perhaps you would like to read and see what he says |
| 5 | Of course I did n't know at the time that this was to have been O's last night in The Bar ; and I knew that it was n't Boy 's first visit to The Bar , I mean he did not see O the very day he walked in , their eyes did not meet across the bar on that very first night . |
| 6 | She did n't know at the time that some day she would call herself ‘ artist ’ or ‘ writer ’ — not many teenage coloured girls from the Gorbals in Glasgow had trailblazed a path in that direction , so it was a real exploration into the unknown for her when at sixteen she set out to go to college to study fashion . |
| 7 | ( It was just as well I did n't know at the time that Jack would once have been called a psychopath , which to most people effectively means ‘ murderer ’ ) Untreatable ? |
| 8 | He , he was a real friendly guy and like I say he never said cheerio before he went , but one day he just painted his aircraft up with the D-day landing signs which we did n't know at the time and the next day he was gone of course it was very much top secret that was but the town just emptied of all Americans it was like a ghost town after them but it had been previously . |
| 9 | If you let me know at the meeting and . |
| 10 | Auguste 's eyes misted at the sound and sight of the lovely Araminta , Multhrop 's eighteen-year-old daughter , rustling down the staircase in a delightful froufrou of petticoats , her large blue eyes fixed on her father , but well aware of every male in sight . |
| 11 | How towers are designed at the top and bottom is crucial , what goes on in between is largely irrelevant . |
| 12 | However , it must be stressed at the outset that we can do no more here than to indicate the basic principles involved , and give illustrations of a few of the almost innumerable variants of basic methods that exist . |
| 13 | It should be stressed at the outset that maintaining that large companies are social enterprises involves no necessary finding that the root principle beneath the current rules of company law , that companies exist to make profits for the benefit of shareholders , is unsatisfactory . |
| 14 | It must be stressed at the outset that correct identification is the chief problem . |
| 15 | It has to be stressed at the outset that all sites provided some level of economic servicing , which will have originated in several ways . |
| 16 | Her voice very nearly cracked at the thought that Fen might have been making love to his girlfriend only feet away from where she , Robbie , lay . |
| 17 | Advocating a greater use of the birch he said ‘ Young offenders are leaving the juvenile courts laughing at the Magistrates and the Police . |
| 18 | They were both still laughing at the memory when the off sales bell rang . |
| 19 | If , on the other hand , there are readers who are more interested in laughing at the past than in understanding it ; if they find disease and human suffering good for a giggle as well ; if they think that a sort of free association of ideas is a good substitute for historical explanation ; and if they are unperturbed by gross defects of style and grammar , then they will enjoy Andrew Nikiforuk 's The Fourth Horseman : A Short History of Epidemics , Plagues and Other Scourges . |
| 20 | The mixture of cheap jokes and pretentious philosophising becomes increasingly hard to stomach , however , and there are far too many moments when it is not clear whether you are supposed to be laughing at the characters or taking them seriously . |
| 21 | ‘ As sure as hell not to see through , that 's a fact ! ’ he ripped into her flatly , and , before she could draw breath , he prodded at the folder that lay on his desk and rapped , ‘ You read perfectly well from this file — without your glasses — the night I delivered it to your apartment ! ’ |
| 22 | The job of perceptual systems is to take these fluctuating patterns of activity occurring at the receptors and interpret them in terms of what is going on in the outside world . |
| 23 | It was tedious , but no longer alarming , and as she contrived most mornings to slip down to the shore for gulps of sea air , though she was careful now never to go beyond the rocks around the headland , she did not chafe at the confinement as once she had . |
| 24 | Flax mills and handweavers — also useful generally because they helped at the harvest and other farm-intensive moments — came to these villages which were advertised as having little plots of land , enough to sustain a cow , and enough peat to keep a family fireplace burning , and enough life in general to support those married , or intending to marry . |
| 25 | Figure 5 b shows how the system of Fig. 5 a would appear to an observer located at the Sun if the line-of-sight makes an angle of 16° with the major axis of the bar : this is the configuration that gives the best agreement with the data . |
| 26 | This finding was considered as an ‘ uncomplicated ’ Barrett 's oesophagus. ( e ) Grade IV : presence of a peptic ulcer or stricture of the oesophagus , located at the level or distal to the mucosal junction , always in the presence of a Barrett 's oesophagus . |
| 27 | A continental landmass located at the north or south pole is likely to be ice-covered , and therefore very reflective : a lot of the impinging sunlight will be reflected back out into space . |
| 28 | The meristems located at the root and shoot apices of the embryo recommence activity following sowing of the seed and persist for most of the life of the plant . |
| 29 | In the 15 sign languages analysed , the following signs were found for LAUGH , HELP and ( tell a ) LIE , In all 15 sign languages , the sign for LAUGH was located at the mouth or lower cheek ; the hand was either held with index finger extended , or index and thumb extended and moved from side to side . |
| 30 | And now , like as not , Sam 'll win at the fishing and you 'll be trothed to him — a bastard of Sir Gregory 's . " |