Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels . |
| 2 | The prevention of purprestures was his responsibility : he threw down houses , sheepfolds and other buildings and enclosures erected without licence in his bailiwick , and attached those who made them to appear at the next Forest Eyre . |
| 3 | The pelagic animals generally try to achieve ‘ neutral buoyancy ’ , to enable them to stay at the required depth without effort ; and many have devices to alter buoyancy . |
| 4 | John 's wife Clare has to stand outside the stable on a crate with Milton 's tail over the top of the stable door and pull it from there , while John has him twitched at the front end . |
| 5 | –One would show them falling at the usual speed and hear the laughs . ’ |
| 6 | The only thing I could do I mean at the same time I 'm saying O K I 'll go in to do it this way , would be to actually say , sod this for a lark , instead of doing erm totally private thing , gon na set up a private limited company to issue cheques . |
| 7 | If you 're short of worktops , a wooden block on wheels can be moved to a free space and allows you to work at a similar height to your kitchen worktop . |
| 8 | But Rostov 's experience of the Empire had not prepared him to find at the same time a complete absence of the poor and underprivileged . |
| 9 | He had seen her sitting at the high table among the other ladies of noble birth who served the Empress . |
| 10 | Another of the veterans , Col Oleg Nechiporenko , a Latin American specialist , promises to shed new light on Lee Harvey Oswald , whom he says he met at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City two months before the assassination of President Kennedy . |
| 11 | Secondly , and most serious , are allegations of ‘ Clever Hans ’ errors ; named after the German horse early in the century that gave correct answers to arithmetical problems shown it on a blackboard ( by tapping with its hoof ) until it was unmasked as reacting to unwitting symptoms of tension in its trainer which caused it to stop at the right moment . |
| 12 | Let us glance at a familiar passage of Scripture : 2 Corinthians 5.16–21 . |
| 13 | Let us look at a real two-dimensional problem instead . |
| 14 | Let us look at a simple example . |
| 15 | Before going on to consider more problematic aspects of semantic constituency , let us look at a few more examples of the recurrent semantic contrast test in action . |
| 16 | Let us look at a few Elizabethan towns in more detail , starting with York , the secular and ecclesiastical capital of Northern England , a county town and large commercial centre . |
| 17 | Let us look at a holy man in action , and the means by which he could exercise local power in a society where constitutionalism by no means ruled . |
| 18 | Let us look at a numerical example , giving Dept . |
| 19 | So let us look at an English case which exemplifies some of the practical problems confronting the theorists of sustainable development : Twyford Down ( near Winchester ) and the route of the M3 motorway in March 1990 . |
| 20 | Let us look at the various yarns that are spun on cones . |
| 21 | So , let us look at the various forms of communication . |
| 22 | So let us look at the present day , and to take this wording , do you consider that it is now appropriate that Skelton should expand any further ? |
| 23 | Now let us look at the possible combinations . |
| 24 | In the meantime , let us look at the above five sets of objections in more detail . |
| 25 | Let us look at the second half of the twentieth century . |
| 26 | Let us look at the latter first . |
| 27 | To help us decide how much liquid to make up let us look at the appropriate dosages for each of Hahnemann 's suggestions . |
| 28 | Firstly , let us look at the wider influence of the Chicago School . |
| 29 | Let us look at the empirical approach in a concrete instance . |
| 30 | Let us look at the first problem first . |