Example sentences of "[verb] at [num] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned round to sec if he was laughing at one of the postcards but he was laughing at her . |
| 2 | ‘ Twice a week throughout more than one winter , he rose at five in the morning , and having saddled his pony himself , left the Abbey punctually as the clock struck six in order to attend Dr. Witt 's clinical lecture at seven , in the Bedford Infirmary ’ . |
| 3 | James Cran rose at 5.17 on the Thursday morning of the Maastricht Bill debate . |
| 4 | Not the best reason for flying home , but oh God , she was sick of the subzero temperatures , the fact that the sun rose at ten in the morning and set at two in the afternoon . |
| 5 | The school operated a concessionary fees scheme that enabled the taxpayers , as members of the staff , to have their sons educated at one-fifth of the fees charged to parents of other pupils . |
| 6 | After being pegged at 4–4 following the first frame of the evening session , Hendry raised his game to collect the £40,000 first prize — and become Masters champion for the first time . |
| 7 | Its central way-station was located at one of the most remote places in the British empire ; Alice Springs . |
| 8 | A shift at one of the company 's two neighbouring plants had been axed and staff levels on a shift at the other had been cut , he said . |
| 9 | We arranged to meet at twelve-thirty under the clock . |
| 10 | When they were discharged at eight in the morning , they were given back their belongings , with a sandwich of bread and cheese . |
| 11 | She knew that Sue worked as a nurse four nights a week , going on duty some time after the children had gone to bed in the evening , and returning at seven in the morning . |
| 12 | GPO clock which stopped at 2.25 on the afternoon of Easter Monday . |
| 13 | I recall her pacing the sitting-room while I am doing my homework , pausing every so often to stand at one of the windows and look down into the busy street below . |
| 14 | Unlike the stress at right angles to the crack surfaces which is mapped in Figure 3 , this tension starts at zero at the crack tip and increases as we move forward away from it . |
| 15 | A debate that starts at 3.30 in the afternoon and goes on until 2 o'clock in the morning is hardly an advert for open government . |
| 16 | ‘ They'se stayin' at one of the tied cottages at Hillbrook Farm and they has to earn their keep . |
| 17 | The mother shouted at one of the boys and he went back to sit in the small lorry . |
| 18 | The Cheltenham & Gloucester has produced a £50m fixed rate loan priced at 13.25 until the end of 1991 . |
| 19 | This group meets at six in the morning . |
| 20 | Libby had been heaving and pushing at one of the logs , covered with rotten bark that peeled off , revealing orange insect eggs and small white channels like blood vessels covering the surface . |
| 21 | 10.1 The Proprietor shall receive on publication six copies of all components of the Work and one copy of any revised or corrected impression all free of charge and shall be entitled to purchase at two-thirds of the United Kingdom published price any further copies of the Work required for the Proprietor 's personal use and not for resale . |
| 22 | 10.1 The Company shall receive on publication six copies of the printed Work and six copies of the video Work ( in the format and standard of the Company 's choice ) and one copy of any revised or corrected impression all free of charge and shall be entitled to purchase at two-thirds of the United Kingdom published price any further copies of the Work required for the Authors ' personal use and not for resale . |
| 23 | The result of the match was hanging in the balance with the teams level at 7–7 in the club house . |
| 24 | Next to him , his back to the gramophone , his friend Danny was looking at one of the Meccano magazines he had been given . |
| 25 | Tom O'Neill was in the outer office looking at one of the pictures that lines the walls — Rena , Hugo 's favourite house model , wearing a loose cut trench coat over a tailored shirt and doe-skin pants . |
| 26 | We begin by looking at one of the seminal theories of soccer spectator disorder , the Marxist approach of Ian Taylor . |
| 27 | We can consider these problems and get a sense of how online multimedia might work in practice by looking at one of the first projects to attempt to offer multimedia online database services . |
| 28 | The other one erm is within the university itself because we do have a support organisation here for teaching within the university , and it is possible for groups of teachers in any part of the university to ask for some help and support in looking at one of the courses they 're involved in teaching . |
| 29 | In an attempt to relieve your fears , I 'll be looking at three of the best known and anti-virus packages : |
| 30 | BARNHAM HALL was built at one of the most confusing periods of domestic architecture in England . |