Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also tried my hand at professional decorating . |
| 2 | She then picks up a stone in her jaws and , vibrating her head at high speed , bangs down the soil . |
| 3 | ‘ Danish farmers are also keen to try their hand at outdoor systems , which we have seen emerging in the UK over the past five years , and trials have already begun . ’ |
| 4 | But , to their credit , the Fifties sustained its interest at maximum heat . |
| 5 | Despite the many improvements in state provision Eva found her time at social services a great eye opener . |
| 6 | The emphasis with the old , as with any other age-group , should be on prevention before the need for cure arises , and some elderly people suffer quite unnecessarily from the ‘ silent ’ types of illness which show no dramatic symptoms in their early stages ( such as anaemia ) , and which might well be diagnosed if they visited their doctor at six-monthly intervals when feeling at all ‘ off colour ’ . |
| 7 | It was a pity in a way , but he 's learnt a lot in the last two years , and now feels ready to try his hand at professional photography in London . |
| 8 | It was hot and clammy , accentuated by the constant pain of keeping his body at critical pitch , ready for instant action . |
| 9 | The intercutting of parallel actions — which can be shot at different times and in different places — can all be done at the editing stage , and you are free to try your hand at risky shots safe in the knowledge that any failures can be edited out later . |
| 10 | One reason for the ubiquity of chants lies in the fact that a large number of fans move around the country to support their team at away games . |
| 11 | But its principled insistence upon grassroots-level work , criticising labour movement officialdom where necessary , has also produced difficulties : its inability to win sustained trade union support at regional level , over-reliance on the now abolished West Midlands County Council for core funding , and the instability of many of the community groups it serviced , have placed its future at serious risk . |
| 12 | My daughter , Dr Ann Mitchell , who got her PhD at Heriot-Watt University in microbiology , spends much of her time in the Caquita Medio region of the Columbian Amazon , living and working with the Uitoto y Muinane Indians observing their healing techniques and categorising and collecting plant specimens . |
| 13 | He conducted detailed negotiations with a consortium of the four clearing banks and , enlisting my assistance at occasional meetings , contrived an arrangement with them that made the economics a possibility , while , I have to confess , retaining some attraction for the banks . |
| 14 | Also on the limestone , I Should Coco , E5 6b , the line of four bolts right of Snails Ate My Lampshade at Bent Tor — first ascent by Pete Cresswell and Cathy Duffill . |
| 15 | The BRC squad includes Rodney Wilson and David Webb who both learnt their rowing at Methodist College and continued at Queen 's before moving up to BRC . |
| 16 | No , the fans were only being impatient with three false starts and directed their anger at 30-year-old Johnson for causing the final one . |
| 17 | Just up the road , at Langport in Somerset , was the birthplace of Walter Bagehot ( 1826–1877 ) , although as he directed his microphone at Liberal Democrat hecklers John Major had other things on his mind . |
| 18 | Most of the climbers are equipped with Oxygen cylinders to help them breath at high alititudes . |
| 19 | SO WROTE Stephen Vincent Benet , who also penned the immortal line ‘ Bury my heart at Wounded Knee . ’ |
| 20 | She owed money at the site shop where the tenants were forced to buy their paraffin at inflated prices , and , though the Assistance Board was making her an allowance , she was so deeply in debt that there was no possibility of getting straight . |
| 21 | But if they were always selling their stock at genuine bargain prices , they would never make any money . |
| 22 | you know mate of mine had got his son at bloody public and wants one of these posh public school type all night parties , so we had one of those , and , you know and er |
| 23 | More concerned that this reflected on his own abilities than his tutor 's zest , Leonard telephoned his residence at Bowdy House , in the poorer district of Montreal . |
| 24 | Research projects on many topics are carried out at the CTVM , overseas , and elsewhere in the Edinburgh area and students and staff present their work at weekly seminars . |
| 25 | But it is not radiating its energy at visible wavelengths like previous contenders for the title , all of which were quasars ( quasi-stellar objects ) . |
| 26 | Consider a sentence like The school teacher swung her hand at little Mary who was misbehaving . |
| 27 | By this stage formal lectures will normally have ceased , and students will meet their supervisor at regular intervals during the preparation of the dissertation . |
| 28 | Following a conversion at sea he became an evangelical Christian , and spare-time preaching developed his ability at public speaking . |
| 29 | Young Jason Rowbotham who 's on trial gets his chance at right back . |
| 30 | Robin Jones keeps his place at open-side flanker where he has played in Swansea 's last three matches in the absence of another injury victim Alan Reynolds . |