Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Act provided for a route commencing at the top of Anerley Hill , descending past Crystal Palace ( Low Level ) Station to Thicket Road , a turning on the left , which led through to the top end of Beckenham Road , Penge . |
| 2 | A case heard at the Essex Forest Eyre in 1277 illustrates the conflict between municipal privileges and Forest jurisdictions . |
| 3 | I wander round the park a bit looking at the trees and stuff . |
| 4 | This was a liberal middle-class reformist cop-out guaranteed to give the right women a step up in the power stakes as well as provide appeasement for male consciences which were getting a bit ragged at the edges from the constant battering of Irish feminists . |
| 5 | At first they were very calm and at the end , at the end there was a big panic that they was , they were all talking over each other , there was no control , you know , it was a bit rushed at the end , but , that was n't because it was bad planning , it was just they were panicked at the end . |
| 6 | Crew all a bit over-excited at the moment — if I hear another joke about ‘ I was going Caracas back there ’ I think I 'll strangle someone . |
| 7 | I was just a bit stoned at the time and it all poured out … . |
| 8 | He was angry , but a bit pleased at the same time . |
| 9 | We 're walking back from the shops — me and Marie — and we stop for a bit to look at the lights in the electric shop . |
| 10 | There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree . |
| 11 | But he was a bit flummoxed at the reality of Nuadu , because nobody had ever told him how to address a bastard of the Ireland 's Royal House . |
| 12 | ‘ It was a bit harrowing at the train station this morning , ’ he admitted yesterday . |
| 13 | In a referendum held at the same time as the elections , 78 per cent of voters supported a new Constitution which provided for a directly elected President to appoint a Prime Minister who would in turn appoint a Cabinet , with all appointments requiring parliamentary approval . |
| 14 | The ad shows a crook gazing at the busty , mini-skirted girls and asks : ‘ Who 's giving your bag the eye ? ’ |
| 15 | She skirted its edge and at last spotted a possible entry , finding a stick to whack at the jagged branches of an old dogrose . |
| 16 | The application , made under the name of Deputy Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs , Kim Yong Nam , followed a decision announced at the end of May that North Korea was dropping its previous insistence on a single Korean seat at the UN . |
| 17 | The new title ‘ Officer Board ’ , replacing ‘ Consultative and Advisory Council ’ was a decision made at the Special Delegate Meeting in March . |
| 18 | A confidential US Defence Department report had concluded that China 's sale of missiles to Saudi Arabia [ see pp. 36254 ; 36312 ] had been the result of a decision taken at the highest level of government to confront the USA in the Middle East . |
| 19 | The ground radio had reports of a gang shooting at the corner of La Brea and Rodeo , and Provenzano dipped the chopper to the west and flew at 130 mph to reach the site . |
| 20 | One Soviet journal questioned why people ‘ in certain Atlantic capitals … want to fasten the word ’ neutrality ’ to Afghanistan 's non-aligned policy' and concluded that ‘ the ‘ neutralisation ’ label conceals a course aimed at the elimination not only of the government now in power but also of the very system established by the April [ 1978 ] revolution ’ . |
| 21 | 2 years on , Sean Gooch is serving a 5-year jail term for causing death by reckless driving , a sentence upheld at the Appeal Court last week . |
| 22 | The Princess Royal attends a lunch at the Enmore Hotel , Kirn , Dunoon , Argyllshire ; as President , Riding for the Disabled Association , attends a Show given by the Dunoon and Cowal branch of the Association at Dunoon ; attends a sheep show at the European Sheep and Wool Centre , Lochgoilhead , Argyllshire ; and opens the Drimsynie Holiday Village . |
| 23 | TOP industrialists from the United States travelled to Snowdonia to hold a board meeting at the site of their latest acquisition Austin Taylor Communications Ltd at Bethesda . |
| 24 | For this reason , and realising it would need to be a writer based at the BBC with whom he could work closely , David Whitaker , on Donald Wilson 's recommendation , selected Anthony Coburn . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The system also manages to incorporate a handrail running at the same speed as the walkway — an advance compared with most single speed systems . |
| 28 | It required but a single coincidence , whereby an apparent answer to a prayer arrived at the appropriate time , to make him believe that his objects of supplication had powers beyond himself , and had brought him relief . |
| 29 | A chariot moves at the speed of the creatures pulling it . |
| 30 | The Soviet-US joint venture Telekos is now providing a voice-mail service in Moscow : according to Alexander Gromov , Telekos deputy director , the system runs off a computer installed at the Moscow city telephone exchange ; the mail box has two minutes ' memory for input messages and half a minute for output messages ; the subscription is 1000 roubles hook-up fee plus 2,300 roubles per month . |