Example sentences of "[verb] at for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise it was like a wrinkled prune , lying beside its mother , who loathed having her breasts pulled and sucked at for milk , which however came . |
| 2 | were on the jury when was hanged at for murder . |
| 3 | The special case of a disseminated labour force , the railway and other communications workers , will be looked at for 1922 . |
| 4 | The athletes know them , and also know that on certain occasions they are being looked at for selection purposes . |
| 5 | ‘ As nasty a thing as I 've looked at for many a day ’ , says one of the characters in Trollope 's Vicar of Bullhampton of the local Nonconformist chapel . |
| 6 | ‘ The Managers ' Association have written to the FA suggesting this is an area that needs to be looked at for the good of football . |
| 7 | Sighing , he leafed through the English newspapers , the first he had really looked at for months . |
| 8 | An abacus uses human gall-stones on taut human sinew , the rocking horse has a semi-skeletal head , a set of wooden toy soldiers all have subtle mutations when looked at for a second time , and so on . |
| 9 | This rule has now been relaxed so as to permit reports of commissioners , including law commissioners , and white papers to be looked at for the purpose solely of ascertaining the mischief which the statute is intended to cure but not for the purpose of discovering the meaning of the words used by Parliament to effect such cure : Eastman Photographic Materials Co . Ltd. v. Comptroller-General of Patents , Designs and Trademarks [ 1898 ] A.C. 571 and Assam Railways and Trading Co . Ltd. v. Commissioners of Inland Revenue [ 1935 ] A.C. 445 , 457–458 . |
| 10 | I agree , I find it quite difficult to drive a lot of vehicles because I 'm very small and especially if you 've got small feet and I think there 's a big problem in that area and that it should be looked at for small people driving cars . |
| 11 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 12 | More than 250 ideas emerged from the presentation , and each one has been looked at for possibilities . |
| 13 | Gene analysis also means that conditions such as cleft palate and cancer which are known to be caused by a number of social and environmental factors are being looked at for their ’ genetic component ’ . |
| 14 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 15 | The worst response would be the sort that has already begun to be hinted at for ICI : protecting itself through a tangle of joint ventures . |
| 16 | ‘ The areas we are looking at for divestment are employee heavy ’ said Sanderson . |
| 17 | They had all met teachers ‘ like that ’ on teaching practice : the ones who told them they needed their heads looking at for wanting to go into teaching , who were sarcastic to the pupils and disparaging about almost everything . |
| 18 | These last bear looking at for one thing only , and that is the rich , exquisite Basque family names carved on them : Iharour-Lascagne , Uharretuko Elissalde-Olaizola . |
| 19 | part of the area that we would be looking at for the new settlement . |
| 20 | we approximately the subject we had been looking at for some time so I approximately , nineteen eighty eight , nineteen eighty nine |
| 21 | ‘ About the interview … ’ she attempted — and got snarled at for her trouble . |
| 22 | No , not at all , er , but I , I , I , am someone who believes you 've got to have level playing fields , which we do not have , er or wo n't have , er with the implementation of the common market er , regardless of any relationship with the Soviet Union in 1992 , er after all to , what has not been published very much , er is that , you know , got to take into account indirect as well as direct and erm , if you look at for instance the United States er which is constantly packing the common market people , which is of course , er |
| 23 | The smaller bits we 'd look at for a time and then he 'd throw them on the fire . |
| 24 | Cleveland Outlook social activities group meet at for an eight mile circular walk , lunch at Abbey Inn , Byland Abbey , 10.20am . |
| 25 | Others have been half-trained on slippery floors , where they worry about keeping their feet , yet are yelled at for failing to respond quickly enough to commands . |
| 26 | When poor Col. Griffin was laughed at for suggesting that Baptists establish a University in England , the laughter did not come from the descendants of Matthew Arnold who saw them as psalm-singing greengrocers , but from his fellow Baptists . |
| 27 | Think of the poor little thing at school — he 'd be laughed at for wearing grey flannel shorts and a Fair Isle pullover ! |
| 28 | It is a useful first example for us to look at for it seems so simple — and yet even in something as straightforward as this , the structure can be adjusted in quite a sophisticated way . |
| 29 | A plaque on a wall is admittedly not much to look at for those with a passion for working machinery and dramatic industrial landscapes , but this one marks the site of the foundation of that industry which has had a greater impact on civilization than any other . |
| 30 | Then I switched the dim hall light on , and experienced again the initial impact of the tobacco wallpaper and chocolate paint , the threadbare linoleum , the high gloomy ceilings that you were reluctant to look at for fear you should see bats hanging there . |