Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The time has come to look at the Treaty of European Union and the philosophy which lies behind it in a little more detail .
2 The chair has to come to rest at the bottom of the stairs and you need room to get on and off at both ends .
3 This phase will only be entered if no errors were detected during the prepass phase and the user has selected to continue at the end of the prepass phase .
4 As part of a reassessment of its priorities , SERC has had to look at the balance of its forward planning , in particular to ensure that the funding of grants can recover from necessary short-term stringencies .
5 But Strasbourg 's anti-nicotine brigade has won a consolation prize : the health and social-affairs commissioner , Mrs Vasso Papandreou , has promised to look at a ban in the future .
6 I believe that er we did n't er consider going to look at the development because it was quite clearly in the minds of a large percentage of us that it was contrary to the town plan and so we did not think it was necessary to do that .
7 In September 1977 , my girlfriend Lynn and I eloped and tried to get married at the Ali-Shavers bout .
8 For the next few years American audiences were shown aspects of their society that they could never have expected to have encountered at the movies and it must have struck at least some members of the public that film-going had become a more serious business .
9 These appear to have grown at the edge of the platform and were surrounded by oolitic sand shoals ( Peryt et al .
10 Stalin is reported to have remarked at the end of the war that to establish communist rule in Poland would be like ‘ trying to saddle a cow ’ and Soviet relations with that country ( the largest and most populous in Eastern Europe ) have borne out these apprehensions .
11 Taylor was reported to have protested at the arrival in Monrovia in mid-February of 10 Nigerian air force fighter planes , and to have warned that he would continue to oppose Sawyer 's interim government and the presence of ECOMOG .
12 The four other men at the table with him sensed his panic and stopped talking to look at the newcomer .
13 Unless you want to get arrested at the finish , do n't ever wear it again . ’
14 The amendment which has gone up there and which I think is being circulated is our amendment which is designed to achieve spending at the government target figure .
15 It is true that we are more enlightened than we were ; there is a public which has learnt to smile at the reviewer who declares that a line ‘ will not scan ’ , or that it contains a ‘ trochee ’ where it should have had an ‘ iamb ’ , without considering whether it was ever intended to ‘ scan ’ , or whether there is anything in English verse which can be treated as the absolute equivalent of a Greek or Latin trochee .
16 I am a little surprised that the Planning Committee decided to go to look at the hockey club but not eighty seven houses in .
17 I explained how I 'd attempted to fire at the Corporal as Kaptan lay on the ground and how the gun had malfunctioned ; it would be more accurate to say I 'd been first to aim but the Corporal had got his shots off first .
18 The Cabinet broke up without reaching a final decision , only to be warned by John Major that it risks having to meet at the weekend .
19 Her body was found in a hall of residence only hours after she 'd arrived to teach at a summer school of the Open University … today courses continued despite the tragedy …
20 The currency management was entrusted to a French bank whose shareholders were said to have prospered at the expense of Arab fiscal autonomy .
21 John Douglas found himself charged with behaviour likely to lead to a breach of the peace as a result of some remarks he is said to have made at a meeting in Rathfriland .
22 On the night of the 17th and into the next day , the Germans mounted a massive bombardment ; shells are said to have fallen at the rate of 400 a minute .
23 But before you do you 've got to look at the material in the working file .
24 ‘ We 're going to start shooting at the end of the month . ’
25 Later , when she came to seek employment elsewhere , she could claim to have appeared at the Vienna Opera , and the record would confirm it . ’
26 Wright is then alleged to have spat at a spectator as he left pitch .
27 On 7 December 1988 , al-Megrahi was alleged to have called at the Sliema boutique and bought the odd assortment of clothes that were used to wrap around the radio bomb .
28 The assault is alleged to have occurred at the Paradox night club in Aintree .
29 The assault is alleged to have occurred at the Paradox night club in Aintree .
30 The incident is alleged to have happened at the pensioner 's home in Crewe early yesterday morning .
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