Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 1620 Warner lived at the Woolstable in Charing Cross and at Cranborne Lodge , near Windsor , with Sir Thomas Aylesbury [ q.v. ] , who sponsored his continued work on optics and mathematics . |
| 2 | He wiped the sweat from his forehead , willing Graham to appear at the window . |
| 3 | Lina , her mother Dolores , and old Abuelo stood at the door as the congregation filed in , gossiping and excited , as the band played and the organist competed with it . |
| 4 | In these respects this Jesus strikes at the heart of the Jacob/Esau stories , and must present the most radical challenge to the story of the people of Jericho , who are not even left as bystanders , but are trampled into God 's ground and burnt to a cinder . |
| 5 | The old Han squatted at the entrance to the corridor , waiting there patiently , knowing the dream had been a true dream ; one of those he could not afford to ignore . |
| 6 | On July 19th 1821 Green dined at the Salutation Inn at Ambleside , drank the health of the newly-crowned George IV , and sang ‘ God Save the King ’ twice . |
| 7 | In 1898 Spain suffered at the hands of the upstart United States a humiliating military and naval defeat in the Caribbean and Pacific . |
| 8 | Only the dark Porsche squatting at the far end of the drive gives some indication that a local does not live here . |
| 9 | K Thousands of coal miners marched through central London to protest at the Government 's bungled pit closures . |
| 10 | Winners of the Treble Chance swooned at the sight of the cheque and were generally paraded to the Press and public as examples of how , at any minute , any humble citizen who had never had more than a day out at Blackpool could strike gold . |
| 11 | Dean Acheson sent an aide-mémoireto the ROK ambassador on 3 April protesting at the state of the economy and firmly warning against any idea of postponing the general election . |
| 12 | The Roslavl' Party report for 15 March hinted at the reason for this order when it revealed that peasants were of the view that the volost' authorities were imbued with self-seeking ( shkurnichestvo ) ; Soviet Russia was turning into a ‘ purely bourgeois republic ’ . |
| 13 | At eleven o'clock the big Volvo appeared at the far end of the hangar and drove slowly towards him , coming to a stop with its engine running forty feet away . |
| 14 | Then he said : ‘ You think it is too dangerous for any Baskerville to live at the Hall because of this supernatural hell-hound . |
| 15 | I was a big Smiths fan at the time , but after a while I found it just was n't raw or hard enough for me . |
| 16 | On page 40 Bagehot looks at the politics |
| 17 | A blue Daimler stood at the edge of this area . |
| 18 | At last Katherine glanced at the owner of the voice . |
| 19 | This makes it clear that both Louis played at the Opéra . |