Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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1 | However , Novell , which claimed it was acting on the urgings of its customers , is expected to press the integration and interoperability of NetWare and Unix , the development of common management framework and common application framework ABIs to put at the service of third-party software developers and mission-critical accounts intent on rightsizing and employing distributed solutions . |
2 | Warning of the dire peril IBM faced at the hands of Unix , we suggested that so many parties were working on the thing that over time it would accrete to itself all the missing features that commercial users demanded , and that instead of simply trying to muddy the Unix waters as IBM did for so long , it should recognise that its most convincing answer to Unix was right there under its nose in the form of VM . |
3 | ‘ What 's puzzling me is that phone-call Nicola had at the party . |
4 | The Brigade Major glanced at the sun . |
5 | The pig Agnes had at the moment was just about ready to have its throat slit so she would send Alisdair to the market for a new one . |
6 | Motor cycling was also popular at Brooklands and the great John Cobb was synonymous with the circuit and his lap record of 230.80 kph ( 143.44 mph ) in a 24-litre Napier-Railton stood at the time of the circuit 's closure . |
7 | The girl sister Chiang arrives at the wharf at Chungking on her way to rejoin the rebels in the N. of the province , and is met by a communist agent who is rather foppish in his behaviour , and later turns out to be , not surprisingly , a renegade . |
8 | En route from the crush bar Joshua paused at the palatial Gents . |
9 | Minutes later McCluskey supplied the final pass to launch centre Alan Hunter in for a second Portadown try at the posts , leaving Brown to convert again to finally kill off Armagh 's stubborn challenge . |
10 | Nutty 's father advanced , but at that moment Seb appeared at the top of the stairs , grinned and said , ‘ Hi . ’ |
11 | Her husband Mervyn worked at the Swindon railway workshops for 46 years and was frequently exposed to asbestos . |
12 | Safeway supermarket group Argyll suffered at the hands of profit takers despite impressive full-year results and a confident prediction it can push profits ahead . |
13 | At that moment Timothy glanced at the two shepherds who had drawn back in consternation . |
14 | — One explanation is that when visitors to West Africa pointed at the land around them and asked its name the local people though they were indicating a group of nearby women . |
15 | Yelena Khudiakova 's exhibition of ‘ high fashion using imagery from behind the Iron Curtain' opens at the Birch and Conran gallery in London 's Soho today . |
16 | Last week Sylvestra opened at the Barbican as Kate to Owen Teale 's Hotspur in Henry IV Part 1 . |
17 | But at the end of his paper Nagel hints at the possibility of an objective phenomenology . |
18 | Next morning Doreen arrived at the breakfast table , her attire indicating she was ready to join the horse trek . |
19 | Across the dale from Aysgarth , Penhill Beacon and West Burton lie at the northernmost end of that beautiful secluded dale , Waldendale . |
20 | A long wheel-based Lincoln lounged at the kerb outside San Francisco airport , its inner mystery guarded by tinted glass and a lady driver who smiled , ‘ Mr & Mrs Ives ? ’ and strode forward , forcefully relieving Kenneth of our luggage . |
21 | His daughter Robin said at the family home in Dorking : ‘ Dad had 84 wonderful years . ’ |
22 | After a wild success Raymond died at the age of 20 from typhoid brought about by eating oysters . |
23 | A WHIFF of competition sent shares in United States chip maker Intel tumbling at the end of March , wiping more than a fifth off the value of what is arguably Silicon Valley 's most important firm . |
24 | Just like last year , the Premier , wife Norma and daughter Elizabeth relaxed at the eight-bedroom country hacienda in Candeleda near Madrid . |
25 | Will the Leader of the House find time today to plan a journey from south Norfolk to north-west Norfolk to look at the local health services ? |
26 | The last thing Melissa wanted at the moment was for Iris to find out that she was planning to probe into the circumstances of Angy 's death . |
27 | 12.7 Current Ulster record holder Emma led at the halfway mark from her sister and Ards ' Gail Hamilton . |
28 | In a similar way Paris remarks at the end of the scene : |
29 | Each year Ba'al died at the end of the harvest , was revived , then ascended to his throne and opened a cleft in the clouds so that the rain could fall . |
30 | This week she 's off on her foreign travels again , destination Scandanavia to look at the secrets behind one of the world 's favourite toys . |