Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at the [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | The blade needs replacing at the moment it is snatching at the grass . |
2 | We must have looked pathetic because the man paused , looking at us , then he turned to Dad and said if Dad promised to call at the office he would n't report the matter . |
3 | I mean looking at the game you just could n't believe United would only get a point out of it erm when you went in at half time only one nil up , you so dominated the game I do n't think Charlton had a chance did they ? |
4 | I doubt if he 'd , I mean if he 'd looked at the constitution it was only a constitution , it was oh yes , that 's their constitution . |
5 | If she 'd confessed at the beginning it would n't have been so bad , but how could she tell them now ? |
6 | When fire protection officials came to look at the dump they discovered mattresses deposited by a bed company , furniture and even potentially hazardous oil cans . |
7 | If they 'd settled at the beginning we would n't have had to go through this battle . |
8 | When he and my mother came to live at the house he bought five Aylesbury ducks to swim on the pond and clear it of weed . |
9 | When he 'd finished at the sink I came out and wound myself lovingly around his legs but he shut me in the kitchen . |
10 | He says : ‘ SCL asked to look at the deal I was putting together and straight away they said the biggest problem is conflict of interests . |
11 | well I mean the , the agent has n't or has n't yet sued , but I was n't really putting it like that , I was asking you whether it is your case as in presently stand looking at the defence you 've raised to whether or not you have failed to perform your legal obligations under clause nine . |
12 | Yeah you 're getting you 're you 're getting saturated at the moment you 've |
13 | Having looked at the evidence we concluded that wherever public power has been separated from private power , women have been excluded from it . |
14 | He continued : ‘ Having arrived at the party we do n't want to be seen to be griping . |
15 | ‘ I know , because one day when we went to look at the airport I saw water on the other side , by the road . |
16 | If our jobless levels keep rising at the rate they have since the general election , then the north-east of Scotland may start to feel like the north-east of England . |
17 | Then , knowing what we want the group to achieve , set a transfer price that gets each division to decide to operate at the volume we want . |
18 | she said what , what agenda do you want , so I said just the same and so she put the same venue , we tend to alter at the meeting she said |
19 | I think looking at the market you can , you can get a , erm detached , semi-detached sort of one you know one bedroom I suppose , |
20 | You 'll just get to look at the document you ca n't work |
21 | Bartman , who has not been allowed to live at the house he has shared in Chelsea with his partner of 23 years , David Cohen , as a condition of bail , will now be able to return home . |
22 | They had said at the school she had had a screaming session . |
23 | After several years , therefore , when the illness recurred , Margaret sent after Richard only to learn that he had died at the hour she was afflicted . |
24 | I had thought at the time she had been referring to an officer on some survey vessel , the British Antarctic Survey 's supply ship perhaps , or else a pelagic fisherman or whaler , even an Antarctic explorer . |
25 | If he had braked at the collision he would have slid straight past the scene . |
26 | Once after I had recited at the Guild I was given a pair of woollen gloves , speckled coloured , and with cuffs , which was quite an unexpected treat . |
27 | Erm I I 'm not sure I need to look at the sheet I I thought it was ten when I looked . |
28 | I think we need I accept I think we need to look at certain areas we need to look at the entrance I mean if we were doing the entrance again we would have electric doors on what like they 've got on the Harvey Centre so you do n't have to fight your way in I 'm thinking of doors like this we 'll do that . |
29 | - Elizabeth Rex , chairman of the Harwich Conservative Association ‘ You only have to look at the way we have annoyed the Establishment and the professions to gauge the success of our populist policies . ’ |
30 | I think we have to look at the climate we 're in ; we 're , at the moment the AIDS epidemic is facing all of us , it 's a problem for each and any , every one of us . |