Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | On three sides of this mound there is a colonnade on a raised platform comprising sixteen evenly spaced square pillars of unhewn stone , each thirty-two feet high , linked together at the top by heavy beams with ropes and chains hanging from them at short intervals . |
| 2 | Rock-climbers make sure they have lots of metal implements swinging from them at all times . |
| 3 | They found their parents waiting for them at the top of a wide terrace of marble steps , and the governor 's aide-de-camp conducted them to the reception through a series of lofty , marble-floored chambers forty feet high . |
| 4 | I 've got plants growing in it at the moment . |
| 5 | There were too many strange things happening around me at the time . ’ |
| 6 | The grass waved in the morning breeze , the yellow frames of landing lights rising from it at intervals like isolated rigs in a weed-choked sea . |
| 7 | The leading soccer and horserace commentators , with sometimes far more difficult foreign names coming at them at full pelt out of the fog , seem to manage wordperfectly and not give up the ghost in a surfeit of sniggers . |
| 8 | Yeah if you , if you 're coming up you dare n't stop the driver and there 's things hurtling at ya , there 's kids on sledges coming at you at about fifteen miles an hour and you 'll have to try and drive around them and |
| 9 | The emigrants ' discomfort was aggravated by tantalising radio reports of the steaming soup tureens , hot water and clean clothes waiting for them at the reception centre in Hof , West Germany . |
| 10 | ‘ It did n't really sink in what I had done until I returned to school on the Monday morning and saw all the television cameras waiting for me at the gates , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 11 | The track was like a tin roof , with corrugations running across it at right angles six inches deep . |
| 12 | I must admit my first reaction was that it was a leg-pull ; there were always joke letters coming to me at the studio . |