Example sentences of "[verb] at [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may act at times like a nasty prat , but he is still a legend . |
| 2 | It is one of the devious ways in which we all can behave at times . |
| 3 | FOLLOWERS of Clive Brittain are once again marvelling at bookmakers ' largesse over their assessment of tomorrow 's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe . |
| 4 | During the 1983 — 7 Parliament two seats were won at by-elections but three were lost in the 1987 general election . |
| 5 | Although these troubles occurred in the city , foreigners were also attacked at times of peasant rioting when the rebels came to London , so it is clear that there were some sentiments which were shared by townsmen and countrymen alike . |
| 6 | Events are being organised at venues throughout London and the south-east aimed at beginners of all ages and levels of fitness . |
| 7 | Alternatives would be offered in the curriculum plan but there would also be opportunity for many other alternatives hopefully designed at teachers ' workshops . |
| 8 | In some species there is evidence of supercooling , i.e. failure of the body fluids to freeze at temperatures appropriate to their osmolarity . |
| 9 | The body fluids of marine fish are generally more dilute than those of sea water , and would be expected to freeze at temperatures of -0.6° to -0.8°C ( Schmidt-Nielsen , 1975 ) , a degree or more higher than the freezing point of polar sea water . |
| 10 | Peter Chapple-Hyam 's colt was virtually unopposed in the market , shortening up to 4–6 favourite after opening at evens . |
| 11 | Most of the senior people in advertising today came through the media , through door banging at agencies to get a job in the traffic department , through the graphics department of the Belfast Art College , simply because there was no other education available . |
| 12 | Sunday Life has learned that detectives had received a number of complaints against the businessmen after cheques bounced at banks . |
| 13 | Zips : there is a good-sized zip baffle but the zip did tend to catch at times when pulling from the inside . |
| 14 | They surfaced at intervals , burned hot for a time and then slipped back underground , to be stored again in layers of social and religious memory . |
| 15 | It also demonstrates that the findings of research support a coherent policy to identify family needs at times of stress and develop services and good practice to match them as far as possible . |
| 16 | He carried Sammy in his arms as he had a habit of yapping at cows . |
| 17 | I du n no what she 's talking about cos I ca n't hear through the glass , but she keeps laughing at things he says . |
| 18 | Laughing at things or sitting together round the table and my dad making jokes and … |
| 19 | A smile , slight nods of the head , laughing at jokes , eye contact , all show the speaker that you care about what you are hearing . |
| 20 | Piggott was sitting up in bed , laughing at reports in American newspapers that his legendary 44-year career is finished . |
| 21 | We also all love laughing at foreigners . |
| 22 | Blood pressures rose at reports that US TV film of the Coronation in 1953 had been punctuated by ads featuring a chim-panzee , J Fred Muggs . |
| 23 | As the world warmed , the global sea level rose at rates which certainly were without parallel in the last 100,000 years , but until this month no continuous record of this sea-level change had been available to scientists . |
| 24 | From the point of view of finding its Laplace transform , a unit rectangular pulse may be conveniently regarded as the difference between two unit steps occurring at times and as shown in figure 11.5(b) . |
| 25 | In Seascale there were two cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma , both occurring at ages 55–64 . |
| 26 | However , as the second part of Table 14 shows , there tends to be a more marked , reverse " J " shaped relationship between the frequency of abortions and length of inter-birth interval , with by far the greatest risks occurring at intervals of less than one year , a finding that lends some credibility to the data . |
| 27 | For the latter , the additional time spent on reading words occurring at clause boundaries ( in comparison with words not occurring at boundaries ) was 73 milliseconds . |
| 28 | Two Russian boys , being educated at Downs School near Malvern in Worcestershire , have been in Britain long enough to learn the language , one of them proud to interpret . |
| 29 | One is that personnel officers , themselves often educated at universities , are simply prejudiced against the polys ; another , which can be supported by reference to A-level qualifications , is that universities recruit a superior class of student . |
| 30 | He was educated at schools in Rochester and privately at home , and then at the age of sixteen became apprenticed to his uncle , a chemist and druggist in Bristol . |