Example sentences of "[indef pn] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea was of staking out the estate and counting on someone at the appropriate moment . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , piss off , ’ shouted someone at the other end of the hut , as a boot bounced off the door just as the Sergeant made his exit . |
| 3 | Bob 's phone rang , and while he was talking Dyson , who was sitting back in his chair and waiting for someone at the other end of the line , covered up the mouthpiece of his phone and said , ‘ Are you coming to the funeral , Tess ? ’ |
| 4 | When he assumed the role of the accountant and conducted the whole conversation with someone at the other end who was trying to make an appointment , he was brilliant . ’ |
| 5 | Recording a verdict of suicide , coroner David Morris said : ‘ It is easy enough to criticise the bank as a body — there is always someone at the sharp end . |
| 6 | Most schools have appointed someone at the middle management level or above ( see Figure 1 ) . |
| 7 | Did he not go and shoot someone at the clay-pigeon shooting in Ardallt two months ago ! |
| 8 | Stop me if you 've heard this , but one of those gunsels opened up on somebody at the rear entrance of the Regal Arms Hotel . ’ |
| 9 | Rangers , though , deserved some fortune because they had enjoyed none at the other end . |
| 10 | When the target is a letter , it activates one unit at the letter-detector level but none at the word-detector level ( all word detectors will be inhibited ) . |
| 11 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
| 12 | So provided you get something at the right level of sophistication , you should n't go far wrong with any of the mainstream graphics software currently available . |
| 13 | I first started to think about painting about ten years ago when my two children married and left home and I thought I 'd ‘ do ’ something at the local adult education centre . |
| 14 | The door he had entered by would take a pedestrian but not a vehicle ; the one at the far end was wide enough and high enough to take a truck . |
| 15 | That only leaves the one at the far end , which belongs to a couple who plan to retire here in the spring . |
| 16 | The SOCO strutted across to one at the far end , shielded behind a panel of rough hessian . |
| 17 | If he wanted a degree he could just as well get one at the technical college in Ipswich … |
| 18 | You can knit row one at the usual cast-on tension , but I prefer to increase the tension to three on one of the carriages . |
| 19 | He turned the car into a narrow street and stopped in a yard that could have been the twin of the one at the other hotel . |
| 20 | And he 's got another one at the other end . |
| 21 | It has got another one at the other end . |
| 22 | Oh it was a nice ball that by , shoots and scores , Notts get a second just moments after they might have conceded one at the other end , the referee unimpressed by the penalty claims but the crowd are there , with a really fine piece of finishing by Gary , nine minutes to half time and adds to the one that got in twenty four , and it 's two nil to Notts County against . |
| 23 | No one at the Russian embassy was available for comment . |
| 24 | In all organisations , one interview is being conducted at plant level and one at the overall headquarters of the UK enterprise to which the plant belongs . |
| 25 | They evidently worked on the assumption that no one at the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society ever actually listened to the records . |
| 26 | One at the PstI site at the 5' end of an intact beta-tubulin gene , within the tubulin gene cluster ; and the second into the PstI site at the 5' end of the interrupted beta-tubulin gene , present at the 3' end of the tubulin locus ( 23 ) . |
| 27 | You can occasionally pick up such things at local auctions , but it is largely a matter of searching until you find the right one at the right price . |
| 28 | All the steadings the King went by were empty , although hearth-fires still burned ; and there was no one at the little monastery of Dunning . |
| 29 | Fix around the rocket with royal icing : one at the base , one half way up the main part of the body , and one at the very top . |
| 30 | At that one at the Big Shops , the guy that ru okay it might be the guy that runs it not the one that owns it |