Example sentences of "at the [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , neither Silas nor Matt appeared to be moved by Doreen 's overdressed attire for this wilderness environment , and after flicking cursory glances at the low neckline they ignored it . |
| 2 | At any moment the Roman army could arrive at the narrow strait which separated their holy island from the mainland of north Wales , and they had no protection , except the super-natural powers they felt they could command . |
| 3 | He goes up through the hoops along the narrow , she said the first day when all the others were standing there shaking at the narrow bath he was just over it and down and she said you 've never seen him |
| 4 | Since hearing of Anna 's job , she had been fired with restiveness , pacing round her small green-and-magnolia sitting-room , peering yearningly out of its single window at the narrow terrace which was all of the outside world that she owned . |
| 5 | Glancing with irritation at the cocky girl who was n't even properly French but a bourgeoise English snob with no clue about what was what . |
| 6 | On this occasion I was more relieved than sorry , yet could n't help but smile at the ingenious way they had managed to ease me out . |
| 7 | ‘ However , after looking at the still pictures I realised that Gerrard and Obolensky were in excellent positions for the pass to the right . |
| 8 | Willie gazed at the gentle way he fingered the udders and at the warm white liquid spurting down into a bucket underneath . |
| 9 | Surprise at the gentle way he lifted her breast as though it were not part of her . |
| 10 | However , boys will be boys and they enjoyed the fresh air and the sport of fishing , in fact the boys had been known to fish after dark at the newty pond which was very illegal ! |
| 11 | Then he had gone , and the Curator had stared for a long time after him , and then at the golden eagle who stared blankly back at him . |
| 12 | Sitting by herself in the kitchen with coffee , looking at the golden forsythia she was aglow with health , energy , accomplishment . |
| 13 | But there was another fire this week at the temporary building which the congregation has been using — the disused gym of the former Our Lady 's grammar school . |
| 14 | When they arrived at the temporary mortuary they halted outside . |
| 15 | When they arrived at the temporary mortuary they halted outside . |
| 16 | Leila had planned to keep it rather a subdued affair , but another natro group happened along at the small site they were using and livened things up a little . |
| 17 | The early divisions of the mouse embryo seem much more sloppy and between the 8- and 16-cell stages the surface of the clump of cells becomes smooth and at the 32-cell stage there is a single layer of cells enclosing some cells on the inside . |
| 18 | This programme is aimed at the experienced manager who now needs to develop the knowledge , perspective and skills required in a general management position . |
| 19 | She looked up , and her heart quailed at the thunderous expression he wore . |
| 20 | It was struck not at the weak man who suffered it but at the strong God who was the man 's master . |
| 21 | ‘ None of us could be sure if we would have a job tomorrow ; the uncertainty was preventing us winning new business ; and we had looked at the various companies who were rumoured to be bidding for us and did n't like what we saw . ’ |
| 22 | If the answer is yes , look at the various packages which are available and decide which one suits your needs . |
| 23 | I had no connections with the bigwigs of the movie capital so I found it impossible as a stranger to make the right contacts among publicity agents at the various studio lots , and to meet the stars . |
| 24 | At the present day they have no powers over the infant 's land . |
| 25 | erm So that at Newhaven at the present day you now have a fossil cliff , now largely buried because the tertiary sands and clays which sit on top of the chalk have slumped over , and so much of the original chalk cliff face is , is now buried , but you have this mass of slump material on what was formerly beach , and the gravel ridges stretch for what , one hundred , two hundred or more metres erm from the bottom of the cliff . |
| 26 | And in nineteen twenty er strike going at the present day there was what we called the soup kitchens . |
| 27 | He said that he and Karen could have , he said at the present prices he and this Karen that he 's , that left him er they , they could have had erm a place together because some one bedroom flats , two bedroom flats around are going at thirty five thousand , thirty one . |
| 28 | But there will be an opportunity for members to look at the present programme which will need pruning to get it down to those guidelines , and they can obviously make any comments they wish to , or any advice they wish to give the P A G in terms of individual schemes or the detail . |
| 29 | At the present moment one can think of Chaliapin and Battistini among the men , Calvé , Bahr-Mildenburg and Ackte among the women . ’ |
| 30 | When Scouting for Boys first appeared in a series of fortnightly instalments in 1908 , the fly-leaf of the final issue was already claiming that ‘ at the present moment something between 500,000 and 700,000 young men are interested in this scheme , which will come into full swing about April ’ . |