Example sentences of "at [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked carefully at the sticks of uneven length and thickness that Philip had fixed together , too loosely . |
| 2 | The rank and file of both the Socialist movement and the CNT had been frustrated enough at the limitations of social reform under the Republic ; when the Radicals and the right set about negating what little seemed to have been gained , militancy rose to new levels . |
| 3 | These might now be labelled ‘ fundamental principles ’ and it is important to bear them in mind when looking at the limitations of the legal aid scheme ( Pollock , 1975 ) : |
| 4 | Pigs too were taken to sanctuaries to recover , as the RSPCA worked at the farms for days on end , work which eventually cost the RSPCA £15,000 . |
| 5 | 4–3 The new tenant at the farms of Brahunisary and Tyndrum , Roderick Brown , was the recipient of a complimentary day 's ploughing by 18 teams . |
| 6 | Miss Bedwelty stood staring at the horses for some time , standing with her hand on her hips . |
| 7 | Buoyed up by a wave of patriotic outrage rooted in the well-established propensity of liberal England to display shame at the actions of its Governments , the left was quick to seize the opportunities presented by Munich . |
| 8 | Disgust at the actions of the primary sufferer and at the consequences of the disease . |
| 9 | The issue was raised by Phil Gallie , Conservative MP for Ayr , who protested at the actions of French fishermen yesterday in destroying £10,000 worth of fish en route from Ayr to Germany . |
| 10 | As the campaign progressed , I became increasingly angry at the attitudes of my friends at home and how different they said things were there , believing , as I did and still do , in the importance of a Labour victory for Britain as a whole . |
| 11 | You looked at the streets of your home province and you exclaimed , ‘ We used to be a spotless people , sweeping , polishing , tidying , setting things in order . |
| 12 | He stares at the streets near him and hopes the grief he sees there is something that happens to other people . |
| 13 | It means following the ignis fatuus , the ‘ will o ’ the wisp' that traditionally leads travellers into bog or quicksand ; an analogue to the multiple wanderings of Book 111 is Frodo staring at the corpse-candles in chapter 2 of Book IV , to be warned by Gollum not to heed them , or the dead , rotten , phantasmal faces in the marshes below : ‘ Or hobbits go down to join the Dead ones and light little candles . |
| 14 | She brushed at the folds of her silk Versace blouse and smoothed her short black skirt over her hips . |
| 15 | At last a smile began to pull at the folds in Sir Charles 's face , as if his cheeks really were wallets and his smile was going through them , looking for cash , then the smile turned to laughter , it pushed between his teeth , it was dry and rhythmic , it sounded uncannily like someone counting a stack of dollar bills . |
| 16 | The Lebanese army clashed with the SLA at the villages of Mlikh , Louwaizeh and Jarjoun just outside the " security zone " on Oct. 16 . |
| 17 | Sarajevo radio reported Serb forces had breached Gorazde 's defence lines in hand-to-hand fighting at the villages of Borovac and Gornja Glavica and were advancing on the town 's outskirts . |
| 18 | While overtly and inevitably she accepts women 's subordinate position , there are strong undercurrents of resentment at the restrictions of marriage and at her lost prosperity . |
| 19 | This procedure can be understood most easily by referring to the static torque/position characteristics , even though at the speeds in question these characteristics are not strictly applicable . |
| 20 | Is n't it , perhaps , a notable historical coincidence that the greatest European novelist of the nineteenth century should be introduced at the Pyramids to one of the twentieth century 's most notorious fictional characters ? |
| 21 | Greg went out on the course with Laura about 11 PM and sat at the bleachers on the 18th with a bottle of champagne while he went over his round again . |
| 22 | They stood straining at their leashes whilst , on the other side of the yard , a pack of mastiffs whimpered in protest at the muzzles on their grizzled snouts and the lash of their whippers-in . |
| 23 | But after a week or so I was acclimatised , and I would laugh at the discomforts of half-asphyxiated visitors . |
| 24 | " But my mistresses go home to their husbands for Christmas , and although I could stay at the Covington-Pyms and ride out with the hunt on Boxing Day morning , and call round at the Moons on my way back to cheer up poor Marie … |
| 25 | Willis , walking in his deliberate way , looked at the boxes on Maurice , paused , even shook his head a little , but did nothing . |
| 26 | In January 1991 , the Board looked at the responses to this consultation and used the views of respondents to help shape our new Quality Framework and the development programme which will help to put it in place — the Quality Development Programme — QDP . |
| 27 | This study looked at the responses of more and less arithmetically-able pupils . |
| 28 | Maitlin erm you 'll notice that it concentrates on spatial frequencies which is a particular interpretation of the type studies where you look at the responses of the brain to particular stimuli . |
| 29 | He looked around briefly at the women with the scraggy necks in the Laura Ashley dresses , and the men who all seemed to be wearing red ties , and probably Seiko watches — but for a different reason from Bob . |
| 30 | Mother Francis looked at the women with appreciative eyes . |