Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Whether she had seen those particular swifts Creggan did not know , for she was as usual high at the back of her cage . |
2 | Graham McCourt can do little wrong at the moment and he gave Golden Friend a superb ride . |
3 | I 'd met the Parsons a week earlier , at an end-of-term social at the language school where I was teaching . |
4 | MELROSE found Peebles quite a handful in this friendly at the Greenyards . |
5 | All the different parts of the state pension will come on one order book ; you cash this weekly at the post office . |
6 | If a human picks up one of these caterpillars , the painful sting may cause nausea and an unpleasant swelling at the point of contact . |
7 | It juddered again , twisted … and fell from the wall on to the tiled floor ; severed clean at the ankle as if with a butcher 's knife . |
8 | Some fair at the Invalides or the Champs-Elyseés hat disgorged them , and Flaubert was eager to share their rediscovery with his friend . |
9 | VICENTE Fernandez won the English Open at The Belfry after sinking one of the longest putts ever to win a golf title . |
10 | His patience was sorely tested in the NM English Open at The Belfry in August . |
11 | It is a tall order for someone so new to the professional ranks , but one which could never be construed as being beyond a competitor who , as an amateur , tied for second place behind Greg Norman in the Australian Masters at Huntingdale at the start of this season and who also finished in the top 10 in the English Open at The Belfry . |
12 | THREE round scores and aggregates at the Murphy 's English Open at the Forest of Arden Hotel Golf and Country Club , near Coventry : 202:C Rocca ( Italy ) 70 68 64. 203:I Woosnam 71 67 65 , J-M Canizares ( Spain ) 66 71 66. 207:J Haeggman ( Swe ) 70 69 68 , J Hawkes ( SA ) 70 68 69. 208:H Clark 71 69 68 , D Clarke 68 72 68 , J Rivero ( Spain ) 69 69 70. 209:M Roe 69 73 67 , S Richardson 67 72 70. 210:R Allenby ( Aus ) 72 70 68 , R Rafferty 73 68 69 , P-U Johansson ( Swe ) 68 73 69 , P Curry 69 70 71 , T Johnstone ( Zim ) 66 71 73. 211:P Mitchell 70 72 69 , S Lyle 72 70 69 , S McAllister 73 70 68 , D Feherty 69 74 68 , 211 R Goosen ( SA ) 74 67 70 , F Nobilo ( NZ ) 69 72 70 , P Broadhurst 69 73 69 , G Evans 72 70 69 , J Robson 69 72 70 , V Fernandez ( Arg ) 69 71 71 , G Brand jnr 71 69 71 , D Gilford 70 70 71. 212:O Karlsson ( Swe ) 69 73 70 , M Clayton ( Aus ) 73 70 69 , A Bossert ( Swi ) 72 72 68 , P Lawrie 70 74 68 , J Parnevik ( Swe ) 72 69 71 , G Turner ( NZ ) 71 70 71 , P Fowler ( Aus ) 68 71 73. 213:P Fulke ( Swe ) 72 70 71 , M James 69 73 71 , M Besanceney ( Fra ) 71 72 70 , P Way 68 75 70 , C O'Connor jnr 70 72 71 , G Orr 70 71 72 , B Marchbank 70 69 74. 214:P Price 73 70 71 , D Hospital ( Spain ) 75 68 71 , P Affleck 71 73 70 , S Little 74 70 70 , W Westner ( SA ) 71 70 73 , J-M Carriles ( Spain ) 68 72 74. 215:B Lane 69 75 71 , E Romero ( Arg ) 71 73 71 . |
13 | Moving on to the smaller lifeboats Mr Vernon referred to development work on a 22ft version of the Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable at the RNLI 's Inshore Lifeboat Centre at Cowes . |
14 | Among their routines as they trip the light fantastic at the Dolphin Centre in Darlington are the old time and modern dances . |
15 | This time the text was a speech from Henry V listing the names of English and French dead at the battle of Agincourt . |
16 | She frowned to herself , but Quiss was too absorbed glaring at the board — looking desperately up and down its length for useful pieces that were not there — to notice what she 'd said . |
17 | Does that mean he has had a drastic change of heart or is it just that he thinks , along with many of his colleagues , that there is electoral advantage in keeping this quiet at the moment ? |
18 | got th that shaped at the end . |
19 | From now on there 'll be no more going weak at the knees ! |
20 | A Publicity Committee was formed to attract more members and on New Year 's Eve 1946–47 what appears to be the first such Social at the Club was held and included ‘ modern dancing to a radiogram ’ . |
21 | Levi has just won the Canadian Open at the Glen Abbey Golf Club near Toronto last September , the final win of his magnificent season . |
22 | It 's a few hours before he 's due onstage at the Tower Theater in Houston and Mister C is telling me , in a roundabout way , what his name stands for . |
23 | And of course , when Corrie left , changed into her new suit , her mother , emotional after the ceremony , had had another little upset at the fact that she was going away too , just when she needed some comfort for one daughter 's departure . |
24 | ‘ The messages on our banners in 1979 — freedom , opportunity , family , enterprise , ownership — are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig , Warsaw , Budapest and even Moscow , ’ she told the enraptured Tory faithful at the close of the Blackpool conference . |
25 | Left alone at the table , with the faint shadow of daylight peering through the filthy window in the sloping roof , and with a bare bulb in the wall behind him , Greg looked at the piles of material before him , and his heart sank . |
26 | I was grey here at twenty two white grey at the sides . |
27 | A survey of twentieth-century men 's fashion , ‘ Jocks and Nerds ’ , showed the duo 's capacity for humour , an asset they may find less welcome uptown at the Met . |
28 | The King was bluntly informing him that he was ill pleased at the lack of progress Corbett was making . |
29 | SCOTLAND 'S Colin Montgomerie shot a second-round 72 in the Australian Open at The Lakes , Sydney , yesterday to trail runaway leader Wayne Grady by eight shots . |
30 | I should add that Toscanini is better able to suggest a mood of subdued quiet at the start of the first movement . |