Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [vb base] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is crystal clear and I am convicted of being in my dotage or of going on at half-cock then I shall ask British Telecom to accept my apologies wince at the thought of my next bill , and keep my nose clean . |
| 2 | Her eyes deepen at the memory . |
| 3 | When Prince and his band played their after-hours show at the Camden Palace on Cat 's birthday , Prince gave her a cake with 26 candles on , with the message ‘ Happy Birthday Darling ’ in chocolate icing . |
| 4 | The fact is that all the examples adduced to support the proposition that there should be a qualitative — or ‘ radical ’ — extension of the role of trade unions into the management of the business employing their members fail at the crucial oint . |
| 5 | Bored gauchos sit out of the wind , sucking yerba maté from gourds ; their horses munch at the thin grass in a desultory fashion . |
| 6 | Society becomes more wholesome , more serene and spiritually healthier , if it knows that its citizens have at the back of their consciousness the knowledge that not only themselves , but all their fellows have access when ill , to the best that medical skill can provide . |
| 7 | Thus , because its shares trade at a low price the company will need to issue a larger number of them to raise a given amount of capital than would otherwise be the case . |
| 8 | His eyes sparkle at the prospect of retiring three years hence having established Ruby in particular as possibly a bigger money spinner even than Staley 's high fructose corn syrup . |
| 9 | His rivals work at a quieter pitch , making art that is predominantly abstract . |
| 10 | He hopes to be fit to defend his Masters title at the end of next month and has begun light training . |
| 11 | The equivalent during reading is having our eyes arrive at the bottom of the page without the slightest understanding of what the author had intended . |
| 12 | Your eyes look at the instruments and the instruments tell you you 're fine , you 're flying level . |
| 13 | The trolled and gargoyled buttresses wheel around you through rifts in the cloud ; they stretch , soar , disappear , solidify again suddenly out of the vapour then drift impossibly far up into the mist until your senses reel at the evanescent dynamism of the scene . |
| 14 | Of course , our bullets arrive at the detector one by one and each of them has traversed one or other slit . |
| 15 | Your hands clutch at the gaping wound as you try to stop your entrails spilling into the slime of the sewer . ’ |
| 16 | And our parliamentary reporter Rae Stewart will be reporting on that Save Our Railways lobby at the Commons tomorrow . |