Example sentences of "at the [noun pl] [coord] " in BNC.
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1 | Lunch with Paloma Picasso , friendships with the supermodels , front-row seats at the shows and invites to the designers ' private dinners afterwards , fashion advice from her friend at Vogue . |
2 | Alida had been conscious of Dorothea 's married state , hating her for it , burning with scorn at the preoccupations and trivialities of a marriage . |
3 | It is important therefore to have a look at the reliefs and exemptions that may be available . |
4 | If this were a study in local history we should now , of course , be looking ever more closely at the ups and downs of everyday life in Frome . |
5 | She came to visit Streatlam to look at the horses and I thought what a very handsome woman she was . |
6 | It is because Marx and Engels look not just at the laws but at the nature of relations of production within a whole system that this fundamental and analytically fruitful difference shows up with such great prominence in their work . |
7 | On the well-defined Teviotdale road they proceeded next morning , and now were able to check at the villages and communities they passed that they were still on Balliol 's route , without the time-consuming searching for tracks . |
8 | Mark usually achieved this by thinking out an arresting beginning , nearly always of the same type , asking his congregation to imagine themselves standing gazing at the Pyramids or the Acropolis or even the New York skyline , hardly realising , until Sophia pointed it out to him , that these sights would be unfamiliar to the majority of his hearers . |
9 | A major difficulty is that the inert gases account for only a small fraction of the volatiles known at the surfaces and in the atmospheres of the three planets , where the volatiles almost entirely consist of CO 2 , H 2 O , N 2 and O 2 , or of compounds derived from them such as carbonates , hydroxy-silicates and nitrates . |
10 | It will look both at large-scale historical transformations , and at the responses and perceptions of the local Andean population , since the present crisis affecting highland Bolivia can not be understood without taking into account its historical and cultural roots . |
11 | Wrapped in lace and linen , they stared at the women and girls forbidden to enter the sanctuary . |
12 | As he walked through the centre of the town he saw a large group of navvies sauntering across the wide market square , whistling at the women and calling out to any particularly young or good-looking girls — or those of any age who were careless enough to throw a smile in their direction . |
13 | It was aimed at the women and children . ’ |
14 | You can walk all round and have a look at the things and then go to the end and pay . |
15 | The barrage initially had been aimed at the civilians but Maj Waters said as it got closer to the convoy , two trucks had been damaged . |
16 | To see why , start with a look at the pros and cons of Mr Codd 's creation . |
17 | In next month 's Buyer 's Guide I 'll be looking at the pros and cons of third party maintenance contracts and insurance for your PC . |
18 | We took a handful of blubbery beauties and a fistful of raging rockers and had a good hard look at the pros and cons of facial deformity . |
19 | those following an implicit social optimality approach , looking at the pros and cons of a reform from the viewpoint of all affected individuals rather than reflecting sectional interests , |
20 | We took a handful of blubbery beauties and a fistful of raging rockers and had a good hard look at the pros and cons of facial deformity . |
21 | He supposed she was ashamed of her outburst of bad temper and lingered , looking at the roses and wondering if she would come back . |
22 | For the next few years American audiences were shown aspects of their society that they could never have expected to have encountered at the movies and it must have struck at least some members of the public that film-going had become a more serious business . |
23 | Advocating a greater use of the birch he said ‘ Young offenders are leaving the juvenile courts laughing at the Magistrates and the Police . |
24 | His black suit , now tinged with green , was shiny at the elbows and knees . |
25 | Metal collars with long steel spikes were undoubtedly the favourite form of protection against throttling , although Punch ( 13 December 1862 ) also dreamt up ‘ great coats made a-la-porcupine … with spring daggers at the elbows and sharp spikes all up the back ’ in order to discourage attack from the rear . |
26 | He pulled up at the pumps and the attendant , a young black wearing green coveralls and cap bearing the petrol company 's logo , approached and leaned down to the open window . |
27 | Among the outgoing ministers were Miriam Santiago Defensor , the Agrarian Reform Secretary , and Reinerio Reyes , the Transport and Communications Secretary , who had tackled corruption at the ports but had failed to alleviate worsening traffic problems . |
28 | Balkan aggression was directed at the Germans and Austrians for much the same reason that Polish nationalism was directed against the partitioning powers , but unlike the Poles , the Serbians and Bosnians were supported by the Russians . |
29 | The scullions sweated and ducked at the spits and bake-ovens built around the exercise ground for the clan to feast . |
30 | If you intend to climb a mountain , you do not look at the foothills and worry ; you keep your eyes fixed on the summit , and that way , if you are very lucky and very determined , you may achieve it . |