Example sentences of "at the [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The artists with whom his gallery was closely involved are Andy Goldsworthy , Hamish Fulton , Roger Ackling and Ian Hamilton Finlay , whose Wild Hawthorne Press material he presented at the Fruitmarket when it briefly reopened for last year 's Edinburgh Festival . |
| 2 | They 're having it at the co , at the university because David 's mother has some connection . |
| 3 | Jenny Cunningham of the Council for National Parks said ‘ We are disappointed at the decision because there are far more suitable sites available . ’ |
| 4 | It only improved in the last years of the nineteenth century with the company 's realization of a profitable traffic in middle-class commuters living at the seaside while working in Manchester and Liverpool . |
| 5 | Then she fell back on the turf and stared at the sky until she deemed it time to go home . |
| 6 | Maggie gazed anxiously up at the sky as she and Nevil emerged from the Sauchiehall Street picture house that he 'd taken her to . |
| 7 | ‘ Ca n't remember everything on it , I 'm not as good at the reading as you . |
| 8 | He was like as close as that and he was really staring and he was n't staring at the road cos as I went on a few feet he stared at the car again . |
| 9 | Fourteen two , erm the great problem is it 's easier to get if an afternoon meeting can finish at a reasonable time , then I can probably but erm I think if you , if you 're looking at the clock when home in the evening for a number of reasons it might be then I would this and unless we can sort of put a restricted time on the agenda which is impossible , I can imagine coming down here at two o'clock for the meeting . |
| 10 | She looked at the clock when she got in . |
| 11 | Charity glanced at the clock as she poured and announced that she 'd missed it , Peregrine asking if it mattered a hoot anyway , the wireless these day being so hopelessly uninformative , with nothing more important to impart than news of patrol activity on the Maginot Line . |
| 12 | He pointed at the clock as Maggie went to her desk and put her bag down . |
| 13 | The easing of compulsion in one part of a school 's obligations meant that those who managed curriculum balance , specific schemes of teaching and school policies of assessment at the primary as well as at the secondary levels grew uncertain about other issues . |
| 14 | You 'd better smarten your ideas up , too , ’ he snarled at the orderly as they left . |
| 15 | The red bitch became short-tempered , snapping at the puppy when it went to suckle her dangling teats , now empty of milk : pushing it aside when it clambered over her sleeping body or pummelled her head in a rowdy mock fight . |
| 16 | One of Andrew Buccleuth 's analysts had looked carefully at the company since one of my big customers , a pension fund with vast resources to spend , had bought heavily into the company and so had several of my private clients . |
| 17 | They 've asked him to look at the case because it makes a mockery of justice . |
| 18 | I bought a Volvo estate care from the Oxford Used Car Centre and I had done rather quite high mileage which I sort of did n't really look at the mileage when I bought it . |
| 19 | The shock seared through his arm and he grabbed at the bracelet as though trying to tear it from his wrist . |
| 20 | He sits there sucking on a dead cheroot , staring at the board like he 's forgotten a phone number . |
| 21 | I stayed out front hoping to get another look at the girl if she came out . |
| 22 | Cranston leered at the girl whilst he considered the incongruous couple . |
| 23 | One policewoman said that , while the men disappear when a rape victim is brought in , they all want ‘ to gawp at the girl when she 's being examined and read her statement ’ ( FN 17/2/87 , p. 19 ) . |
| 24 | He smiled fondly at the girl as he spoke , and Paulette , who in truth was very pretty , blew him a kiss before lying back on the pillows . |
| 25 | Juliet glanced quickly at the girl as she folded up the stethoscope . |
| 26 | He explained this extraordinary assertion to his family by saying that the aristocratic rule of primogeniture was the same as that by which Jesus Christ had inherited the kingdom of heaven ( at which his daughter , Nancy , remarked , ‘ Oh , I thought you meant it would be a blow at the faith because the Lord 's son would lose the right to choose the clergyman . ’ ) . |
| 27 | Berowne could n't both have held the razor in his right hand and clutched at the blanket as he fell . |
| 28 | Why do n't you have a look at the manuscript while I get dinner on ? ’ |
| 29 | Having wasted his own considerable inheritance and his wife 's fortune , he stood in need of a greater reward at the Revolution than the minor place of treasurer of the chamber , which , aside from various local dignities , was all he received . |
| 30 | They were caught at the sett after a member of the public spotted them on farmland , said Simon Caterall , prosecuting . |