Example sentences of "[verb] at the [noun sg] and " in BNC.

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31 He finishes at the front and brings the machine round to the back lawn where my sister is having her picnic .
32 It was like a scene from the French Revolution with the gypsy ruffian and a bog-ridden Tumbleweed perched at the front and Swire Sugden trussed like an oven-ready chicken at the back , his hair singed , his face streaked with smut and his natty gents ' suiting in disarray .
33 Trading at the film and television services division and the video and audio production and distribution arm was generally stable .
34 Ambrose , with the wind at his back at the southern end from which he had terminated England 's dogged resistance on the last afternoon of the 1990 Test , also had four wickets on the day , completing the latest West Indian triumph at Kensington by having David Richardson caught at the wicket and bowling Allan Donald with successive balls 20 minutes from lunch .
35 He stopped at the Pâtisserie and emerged with an elegant box bearing the insignia of the French Federation of Master Bakers .
36 He stopped at the door and smiled at her .
37 Athelstan stopped at the door and looked back .
38 He stopped at the door and stared in for a minute .
39 On the way , we stopped at the border and went through the immigration and customs formalities , which were very courteous though long , and we were given lunch before getting back on the train !
40 When Mrs Hollidaye had finished her praying and they were leaving the church , she stopped at the back and showed Dot a book with writing in it .
41 We stopped at the airport and they says who wants coffee or who wants tea ?
42 They stopped at the foot and stared up at the curtain wall rising above them .
43 Well when I was last playing with it that James kept on er in and in that erm he stopped at the station and I have to take it like that far enough cos I wanted Gordon to be there so he co could pick up the express pick , up the coaches
44 They stopped at the corner and Chris said anxiously , ‘ I 'm afraid I 've said all the wrong things , seemed to dwell on my side of things .
45 Eventually he stopped at the window-seat and sat down by Elisabeth : ‘ He says we should ask Fru Gertlinger and Fru Børre to act as caretakers of the houses on the usual terms until further notice .
46 He stopped at the fence and looked down at her seriously .
47 Johnnie also excelled at the job and adapted at the same rate as his friend .
48 James Beck 's long awaited monograph looks at the man and his achievement ; in his pages , Jacopo della Quercia is championed as the least provincial and most ‘ Italian ’ of fifteenth-century sculptors , an artist sensible to his environs , constantly adjusting his own stylistic language , and eventually producing an individual synthesis of classical , gothic , and contemporary influences in his major works .
49 The exhibition also looks at the making and selling of instruments on Merseyside over the past 200 years .
50 He goes into a restaurant and he says oh the waiter erm let me see the menu and he looks at the menu and said right , he said .
51 An additional study looks at the scale and organisation of multiple-earning households .
52 Errol Dow , Market Research Manager , Personal Banking Services , looks at the campaign and its results .
53 DECLAN McGRATH LOOKS AT THE RISE AND FALL AND RISE AGAIN OF ROCK MUSIC IN BELFAST
54 Do you that a child 's mind works in this way , as he or she looks at the world and finds meaning of in it , and are others who are influenced by their own experiences and by their conclusions of others .
55 Step one the open , this looks at the introduction and the purpose of the appointment .
56 The student looks at the picture and hears a comment ; the student patiently replies , reading his answers aloud .
57 She sits on my lap , looks at the photograph and tells me her dream .
58 ‘ The situation is therefore very clouded at the moment and funeral directors should treat claims of big VAT refunds with caution .
59 The child 's face remained frozen at the window and was slowly carried sideways down the wooden platform .
60 He was sufficiently troubled by Malcolm 's bouncer to stand frozen at the crease and take it on the helmet , but sufficiently brave to try to hook the inevitable follow-up .
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