Example sentences of "[verb] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wherry pulled in and we disembarked at the great garden gate . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If CFC emissions continue to increase at the current rate , they would cause an extra 2C of warming over the same period . |
| 7 | Phyllis is very particular about cleanliness , which is why she always shops at the new branch of Safeways . |
| 8 | Mehrabad , as previously mentioned , was attacked at the very beginning of the war . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A loud banging at the front door stopped both of them in their tracks . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Still fuming at the insensitive arrogance of the man she turned and left the office . |
| 13 | The seasoned rockers and cabaret bores at the local pub would appreciate the fact they have travelled up and down the country , playing every decrepit club and hovel on the way . |
| 14 | It also suggested that legislation should be brought in that required planners , designers and architects to consider future health and safety needs at the initial design stage . |
| 15 | Yesterday , the management threatened to issue dismissal notices to the 300 out of the 400 workforce , and about 200 demonstrated at the locked factory gates in an attempt to return to work . |
| 16 | The diplomatic or business historian may gaze at the e-text archive and ask who decided what , but in situations which involve rule based elements in a Decision Support System ( DSS ) , the historian may well ask whose decision ? |
| 17 | There we would gaze at the massive steam engines , all ready connected to their huge waggons , to make a quick getaway to The Market Place at dawn on the following day . |
| 18 | Everybody reacted as one , condemning this nonsense and laughing at the bare-faced cheek of it . |
| 19 | She could see her father , foolish in his pride , and the rich gentleman of her mother 's imagination laughing at the poor Durbeyfield family . |
| 20 | Was he laughing at the absurd idea of being an old fogey ? |
| 21 | The sky clears in the childbirth sequence because of Shatov 's sublime murmurings about the arrival of a new human being , but also because the midwife has her sleeves rolled up , because she is attacking a difficult and strenuous professional job , organizing essentials , masterminding the whole exercise , scolding Marie Shatov who allowed Shatov to get between her and the family in which she was a governess ‘ with the egotistical object of marrying you , laughing at the distraught husband on his knees unable either to bear the sound or block his ears before the birth ; and when all is tidied up , ‘ after some pleasant–es about ‘ the happy couple' ’ which were not without a touch of contempt and superciliousness , she went away as well satisfied as before . ’ |
| 22 | Crazy funnyman Freddie Starr , one of Butlin 's most popular Holiday World entertainers , will keep you laughing at the big star weekend , Friday , October 30 , to Monday , November 2 . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're very kind , ’ said Conway , laughing at the old man . |
| 24 | Like Hutton in bygone times , Stewart seemed galvanised by the disasters occurring at the other end , but was never either intimidated into strokelessness or tempted into a reckless rescue bid , for such an endeavour against this bowling would have been futile . |
| 25 | Changes in proposed greenbelt boundaries affecting a given area , and occurring at the consultative draft stage of local plans and or pre-map stage and the formal deposit of those plans , and or between the deposit copies and proposals subsequently issued by county and local planning authorities by way of desired changes to deposit copies , militate against , and may totally inhibit in relation to that area , emergence within the meaning of the national doctrine most recently propagated in paragraph er within erm paragraph thirty two of the revised version of P P G number One . |
| 26 | It is important to realize then that our symptoms , produced in response to stress , are not solely based upon the stress occurring at the given time , but upon all the stress accumulated in our stress glass over time . |
| 27 | We first met Pacific waters at the windswept village of Puerto Natales , and suddenly there were mountains all around us : mountains and glaciers , and curious seabirds and dolphins and spume-whipped sea , the water a vivid blue under a cloudless sky . |
| 28 | He was educated at the Marischal College of Aberdeen and a private school in Chelsea , and from 1831 till 1835 he attended classes at the University of Edinburgh . |
| 29 | Educated at the Collegiate School , Liverpool , he graduated in 1930 with distinction in history and law from Gonville and Caius College , Cambridge , where he won the Cecil Peace prize ( 1928 ) and became president of the Union ( 1930 ) . |
| 30 | Descartes could not avoid being a product of the Counter-Reformation , having been educated at the Jesuit College of La Flèche . |