Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adj] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , London Transport was unwilling to go to the expense of refitting proper external lighting and the headlamp masks were never removed , as they incorporated red slides for display at the rear end of the car and the combined side lamps-tail lamps and route numbers had been removed or rendered ineffective at the beginning of the war . |
| 2 | He can be given one more magic item from Warhammer or Warhammer Magic at the standard points cost . |
| 3 | Because many of these houses were little known , or stood unseen at the end of long drives , there was no pressure to repair them . |
| 4 | John W. McCandless was born in 1884 in Londonderry , the son of a Justice of the Peace , and became deaf at the age of 10 months through scarlet fever , and was sent to the Langside Institution at Glasgow , Scotland . |
| 5 | You just can not pay attention continuously to all the different variables in a situation and remain sane at the end of the day , you have to develop routines and techniques for handling it . |
| 6 | In the country , it loads up and goes inert at the first sign of a corner . |
| 7 | Horribly frightened by this time , for she could not believe that Susan would have gone out of the house , she ran into the kitchen , and stopped short at the sight of the familiar figure sitting crouched in front of the fire . |
| 8 | Dot remembered how the bowl of each spoon at Mrs Parvis 's was stained a streaky brown , and bent crooked at the shaft , with NAAFI stamped on the handle . |
| 9 | ‘ But I kept trying my hardest and came good at the end . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ What 'll you have , then ? ’ asked Bill heartily , and then , with his odd alternations of mood on him : ‘ What 'll it be ? ’ quite mournfully , and looking bewildered at the array of bottles . |
| 11 | Now what we need is a really big black pen and make a line and put rare at the top . |
| 12 | She called her a tart and a slut because she used to be married to a black man from South Carolina who sang basso at charity concerts all over Yorkshire and Lancashire and dropped dead at the Sun Hotel in Eccleshill in 1927 . |
| 13 | He bubbled noisily and dropped dead at the wizard 's feet . |
| 14 | The God who had made him get off the trike and stand still at the side of the grassily banked hill . |
| 15 | They follow the line of the cliff edge closely and seem curious at the presence of humans . |
| 16 | During breakfast , when the guest left his room key and tag unattended at the table the criminal replaced the room key with a false one and went up to the room to complete his business undisturbed . |
| 17 | The most Mr Simpson would concede — with the greatest reluctance and sounding scandalised at the impropriety of the question — was that his late client had been in receipt of a private income from a family trust . |
| 18 | and a brush and they supply the and that 's it , you pay and get pissed at the same time . |
| 19 | Despite the talk in US government circles only three years ago , of synfuels being what would save the US from OPEC oil dependence , the programme has become unpopular and seems likely at the time of writing to become an offering to appease fears of further growth in the federal budget deficit . |
| 20 | Sheila Payne suggests a number of reasons for this : the side effects of the drugs become more distressing ; patients are aware that they will have to go through further courses of similar treatment and feel gloomy at the prospect ; and they receive less support from health professionals than at the start . |
| 21 | As far as we 're concerned , cycling is the best way to see the countryside and keep fit at the same time . ’ |
| 22 | A veteran of two full tours and a World Cup on the sub-continent , Gatting will ferret out a game of cards , take any chance to fit in a round of golf and stay cheery at the endless list of official functions , where diarrhoea of the verbal , rather than physical , kind causes discomfort . |
| 23 | Only in Split in 1990 did I start out too quickly and felt bad at the half-marathon stage . |
| 24 | ‘ I laughed out loud at three , smiled at four and felt sour at the rest . ’ |
| 25 | In Nice the people were not used to painters and felt embarrassed at the idea of posing for them . |
| 26 | They had always found buccaneering terribly alarming , and felt seasick at the slightest sign of bad weather . |
| 27 | Lying in bed that November day , Wilson looked at the baby cradled in her arms and felt dizzy at the sight of his uncanny resemblance to his brother . |
| 28 | She left her office at about five forty-five , saw Naylor 's Jaguar in the car park and went weak at the knees about him for a few seconds , then she determinedly got into her own car and drove home . |
| 29 | Running to the connecting door they opened it , and stared aghast at the scene . |
| 30 | He pushed the SE into a near-vertical dive and stared wide-eyed at the growing target . |