Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The supplement goes on to look at the law covering the conservation of protected buildings and areas , reporting on incentives like the Town Scheme grant , which can provide 40 per cent grants for repair and restoration work from combined funding between local authorities and English Heritage . |
| 2 | Part 4 goes on to look at the training of parents in skills necessary for successful completion of these steps . |
| 3 | That would we feel is certainly in a coordinating way and if somebody for instance er say you 've got a husband and wife living together , one of them suddenly becomes handicapped in a particular way , what we are planning to do is trying to develop programmes which will enable the carer to have to go on training at the County Council 's expense to enable them to look after somebody in their own homes and it 's a type of thing we want to develop . |
| 4 | The committee became so unnerved at the thought that the club premises might be under threat that when I said I knew how to deal with these bounders , but it could only be as chairman , they swallowed it hook , line and sinker . |
| 5 | ‘ My singing career sort of got off the ground through the show too because it was when a few of us from the show got together to sing at a benefit concert for a football club in Australia that I first publicly sang ‘ The Locomotion . ’ |
| 6 | VICKI WOODS ( Pamella Bordes , page 184 ) started her career as a sub-editor for Harpers & Queen and has since worked at the Radio Times , Tatler and the Daily Mail . |
| 7 | If you are not disciplined enough to arrive at the agency as though dressed for work you may not be taken on to the books . |
| 8 | Swam down to sniff at the trembling . |
| 9 | The Government must find an answer to that key point , which was made by the hon. and learned Member for Burton , who has long experience at the Bar , and by my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook . |
| 10 | Now , with the exception of Lorenzi , who has a young daughter to think about , they can all play full-time in the States — or even , were it to materialise , on the women 's world tour McCormack has long had at the back of his mind . |
| 11 | One has only to look at the regularity with which courses on modelling now appear on the MRS lists . |
| 12 | To illustrate this one has only to look at the account of a pupil pursuit in a school which had thought through clearly its broad curriculum and made plans accordingly . |
| 13 | He bent down to stare at the floor . |
| 14 | After a while she came over to Tallis and bent down to peer at the human . |
| 15 | For example , in assigning an index to a word like ’ making ’ or ’ baking ’ , it may be possible to work backwards to arrive at the root ( ’ make ’ or ’ bake ’ ) by removing the ’ ing ’ ending and adding the letter ’ e ’ . |
| 16 | It is of greatest significance for persons employed under fixed-term contracts where the term has not expired at the time of the sale but the purchaser does not wish to take them on , and for employees with long notice periods such as three to six months . |
| 17 | Luce made a sweeping gesture with one arm and tried not to wince at the pain . |
| 18 | She tried not to smile at the wording , and then she handed it back . |
| 19 | She tried not to look at the glass on the pink marble top of the wash-stand , empty , a sticky red stain at the bottom . |
| 20 | Then his weight lifted and she opened her dazed eyes , confused , as he moved away to sit at the edge of the bed . |
| 21 | Here , a family group has just arrived at the giraffe 's enclosure on a day out at the zoo ( 1 ) . |
| 22 | London 's newest and brightest beauty salon has just opened at the Pineapple fitness studio , South Kensington . |
| 23 | He has already hinted at a price of around $375m . |
| 24 | Work has already started at the Bowness development in Grangemouth to provide 65 two and three bedroom houses and to refurbish 18 council flats . |
| 25 | Caught still standing at the window , Meg 's scattered treasure , her , now lost forever , blown wits . |
| 26 | I seem to have every form the Inland Revenue has ever published at the moment . |
| 27 | Hyundai 's S-Coupe has always come at a bargain price — but until now it lacked the performance to match its sporty looks . |
| 28 | On the way back home he stopped off to look at a house he was thinking of buying . |
| 29 | Yes , in Vienna , a lady , I will not say her name but assure you that any conversation I had with poor little Mrs Crump was most decidedly not on this subject and not about this lady — she has clearly clutched at a reference and taken it for a confidence — in Vienna , this lady of , I may admit it , royal connection , formed an attachment for me which was not reciprocated but proved most difficult to disengage . |
| 30 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |