Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hair parted at the centre and scraped back in a pony tail , Mara was there as usual , fussing over her regulars , but still the very soul of discretion . |
| 2 | LATE IN THE AFTERNOON Frankie found himself standing awkwardly by the kitchen door wearing polished shoes that pinched his toes and a shirt fastened at the neck with a large safety-pin . |
| 3 | In the " fingerprinting " technique developed at the university 's Industrial Ecology Research Centre , concentrations of congeners are separated into 92 types . |
| 4 | I was just a bit stoned at the time and it all poured out … . |
| 5 | If the contra operation worked , Central America would be saved for democracy and Communism stopped at the doorstep of the United States . |
| 6 | ‘ How many more of you are- ’ he broke off with a stifled gasp as a hand clutched the skin exposed at the side of his neck by his wide and unbuttoned collar , and he folded to the ground . |
| 7 | Some women wore a cloak fastened at the shoulder or breast , and some gathered clothing in at the waist with a girdle , usually secured with a buckle . |
| 8 | Notice board for advertising activities of the J.G.V.A , at present situated at the tennis courts , serves no useful purpose . |
| 9 | The preparation of the foundations and the timbers alone would have required considerable time and although C12 is the largest building excavated at the site , the effort required to build many of the others would not have been much less . |
| 10 | As Doctor Who swung into production , envious eyes in the Children 's Department studied its apparently lavish costume and set provisions , distinctly convinced that the programme was being made with an inflated budget won at the expense of cutbacks in standard children 's output . |
| 11 | The Institute is housed in a fine building located at the south-east corner of the University campus , which was designed by Robert Atkinson and opened by Queen Mary in 1939 . |
| 12 | There are few more striking than the slim sergeant major with the dark eyes , pronounced eyebrows and nose , and dark hair rolled at the nape of her neck . |
| 13 | The new ARL 3580 inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometer installed at the end of last year has been calibrated for the determination of major and trace elements in water . |
| 14 | Last week witnesses for the Central Electricity Generating Board claimed at the inquiry that work around the world had already shown that the ballooning phenomenon is not as critical as once feared . |
| 15 | His father 's jaw dropped at the sight of his son 's face . |
| 16 | The procurator protested at the leniency of the sentence . |
| 17 | This interpretation has proved to be compatible with other results , including the finding that a click located near the end of a clause tends to elicit longer reaction times than a click located at the beginning of a clause ( Abrams and Bever , 1969 ) . |
| 18 | A new Language Award targeted at the Tourist Industry , English For the Tourism Industry ( EFTI ) will be launched in selected markets in the summer . |
| 19 | Standing motionless behind the curtains on the front landing , her right hand cupped round the pale flicker of her night-light , Eleanor Kerrison watched the sudden red blaze of the Rover 's rear lights as the car stopped at the gate before turning left and accelerating out of sight . |
| 20 | The Bush campaign , which had had its late surge halted at the end of October by fresh Iran-contra revelations against the President [ see pp. 39134-35 ] , was unable to recover its momentum before polling day . |
| 21 | A recent small-scale study undertaken at the University of Sheffield suggests that young people in private schools reveal distinctive processes of occupational , political and socio-economic socialisation . |
| 22 | This revelation represented a fundamental flaw in the BRAC programme , since BRAC 's plan of introducing appropriate technology to the people of Bangladesh required that the lobon-gur solution should have been available to all who needed it with little difficulty ( the first criterion given at the beginning of Chapter 4 ) . |
| 23 | ( 2 ) Throughout your occupation you will pay rent calculated at the rate of £ per annum payable on demand in advance ( but periodic demands shall not convert this tenancy into a periodic tenancy ) . |
| 24 | To understand whether this is the mechanism by which IL-6 induces the activity of IL-6DBP/NF-IL6 in Hep3B cells , we performed immunofluorescence analysis of cells transfected with a IL-6 DBP-TAG cDNA which codes for full-length IL-6DBP protein fused at the carboxy-terminus to a 14 aminoacid peptide ( TAG ) which is specifically recognized by a monoclonal anti-peptide antibody ( 39 ) . |
| 25 | Dotty wore a sleeveless dress of black velvet caught at the hip with a diamanté buckle . |
| 26 | Sorry to butt in but if anybody 's got a car parked at the back here , the warden 's taken all the . |
| 27 | A radio-cassette player worth £130 and four tapes were stolen from a car parked at the Helme Park Hall Hotel , Fir Tree , on Saturday night . |
| 28 | A radio-cassette player worth £130 and four tapes were stolen from a car parked at the Helme Park Hall Hotel , Fir Tree , on Saturday night . |
| 29 | A radio-cassette player worth £130 and four tapes were stolen from a car parked at the Helme Park Hall Hotel , Fir Tree , on Saturday night . |
| 30 | Absorbed in his own thoughts , he paid no attention to the purple saloon car parked at the roadside just short of number thirty-seven until , as he made his way past it , the driver 's door was pushed abruptly open to block his path . |