Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun pl] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 My business statement every week is based on the position as I see it at the time and we have organised matters at the time .
2 Enthoven pointed out that whereas the NHS efficiently contained costs at the macro-level it provided few incentives to consistently reward efficiency and high performance at the micro-level , and indeed penalised both .
3 The £10,000 scheme has lifted spirits at the school which is close to imported coal mountains at Gladstone Dock .
4 Elsewhere in the Black Country in 1741 , William Hutton might also have seen women at the family forges making chains , nuts , bolts and screws , though these were much less populated trades than was nail making .
5 But perhaps she had seen others at the tree tops , for she clattered her talons violently on the top of her cage , crashed down on to its concrete floor , her wings smashing against the branch that projected across her cage , and then lunged forward at the door of her cage , driven by an impulse that spoke of a terrible longing to be free .
6 He inhales deeply , blows a series of perfectly matched smokerings at the ceiling .
7 Once or twice Bully had made bites at the basket .
8 Er in the summer term particularly , at the end of the summer term those retirements thirty first of August because as you can appreciate they are sort of inundated applications at the end of the academic year .
9 The five death sentences , delivered on June 27 , had provoked protests at a time when the Tunisian government was already countering accusations of illegal detentions and torture in its May-June crackdown against the Nahda movement [ see p. 38215 ] .
10 Also , primary schools are more adaptable erm they have n't got the constraints ; they have n't got the syllabuses to get through ; they have n't got exams at the end of the year ; they have n't got to the sort of subject departmentalization that you get in a secondary school .
11 Certainly er , the er in fact , some of them have got titles at the front so
12 Its simplistic political viewpoint may have correctly reflected attitudes at the time it was set ; but it provided a target for the anti-war movement and provoked demonstrations in many cities world-wide when it was shown .
13 Though there is no reason to think that the kings of Cyrene had actually helped Inaros at the beginning of the revolt , the fall of the Persian-backed Cyrenaean monarchy at about this period can be attributed to the infectious restlessness of Egypt next door , cp. below , p. 61 .
14 Road in Toten , that 's the A six double O five has got roadworks at the junction of Lane , some delays in busy periods and the A fifty two , there 's roadworks on the northbound carriageway at Clifton Bridge , there are diversions there for A fifty two traffic heading for Drive as well , sort of weave your way in and out of all the cones that are up there , the the cone monster 's been in the night .
15 I 've sold cushions at the cricket matches .
16 In an 1884 case , the Divisional Court held that an artisan whose wife had bought blankets at the door for 22/6d when he had given her permission to spend but 17/6d , could not be held liable for the extra sum .
17 Another of his tasks might be the gathering of voluntarily offered resources at the venue , whether it 's free baize for the tables at a church fête , free mineral water or food from a local business , or the offer of cars to transport guests .
18 The Saturday afternoon was drawing in now and Carrie looked out through the partly drawn curtains at the dark , rolling clouds .
19 The program can be configured for left or right handed players at the press of key and also provides a tuning facility via the PC speaker .
20 I 'm sure you could have got tickets at the door if you had wanted them early .
21 The 32-year old has had talks at the Racecourse with the Robins ' boss who said it was premature to talk about concluding a deal .
22 The 32-year old has had talks at the Racecourse with Wrexham manager Brian Flynn .
23 250 workers are to be offered jobs at the company 's headquarters near Tewkesbury 15 miles away , but at least 67 will lose their jobs .
24 Suffice it to say that if I could afford it , there would be pieces of bogwood where I have shown rocks at the back !
25 Everyone else had grabbed seats at the back and , when it was too late , George suddenly realized why the particular seats they had chosen had been left empty .
26 In 1978 and 1980 two independent German studies reported that , in German firms surveyed , robots had replaced workers at the rate of between two and four men per robot per shift .
27 On the back er table there there 's a brochure called Women at the Wheel , it 's a Vauxhall er application please do take a good copy , very good application .
28 A group of white parents , each of whose children had been allocated places at a school ( Headfield ) where 83 per cent of the pupils were of Asian origin , challenged the LEA 's decisions both individually , through separate appeals ( some of which were successful ) , and subsequently through collective action .
29 Before Jessamyn had come to him , he had sometimes spent days at a time sitting in front of the windows in his bedroom , looking at the unchanging , unmoving desert as the sun and the moon did their daily dance .
30 As her own people had done before their captivity , the newcomers laid petitions at the sorceress 's door , clandestinely , while by day the same Englishmen , from a safe distance , mocked and mimicked the bent hag and laughed loudly to show they were not afraid of her .
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