Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | –One would show them falling at the usual speed and hear the laughs . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He had seen her sitting at the high table among the other ladies of noble birth who served the Empress . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Let us look at the various yarns that are spun on cones . |
| 11 | So , let us look at the various forms of communication . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | Now let us look at the possible combinations . |
| 14 | In the meantime , let us look at the above five sets of objections in more detail . |
| 15 | Let us look at the second half of the twentieth century . |
| 16 | Let us look at the latter first . |
| 17 | To help us decide how much liquid to make up let us look at the appropriate dosages for each of Hahnemann 's suggestions . |
| 18 | Firstly , let us look at the wider influence of the Chicago School . |
| 19 | Let us look at the empirical approach in a concrete instance . |
| 20 | Let us look at the first problem first . |
| 21 | Let us look at the three processes in more detail — the hopes and the fears invested in the processes and the inherent problems if one process is too predominant over the others . |
| 22 | First , let us look at the Christian idea of creation . |
| 23 | Erm , I 'll not go through the whole of this table sir , but I do want you to look at the next column , outstanding planning permissions . |
| 24 | When the firemen finally arrived I pointed at the sacrificial pyre still burning and burbled something about my priceless slide-collection . |
| 25 | Crazy funnyman Freddie Starr , one of Butlin 's most popular Holiday World entertainers , will keep you laughing at the big star weekend , Friday , October 30 , to Monday , November 2 . |
| 26 | The holistic approach of phrenology taught them to look at the body-mind dichotomy and to think in terms of prevention rather than quick cures that were often spurious . |
| 27 | ‘ And now it 's a wonderful feeling to know that it has enabled me to look at the top guys knowing there are only a few ahead of me . |
| 28 | She heard him gasp at the sheer beauty of her superb feminine body . |
| 29 | Still , even when Grigorovich refused three years ago to let her guest at the Royal Ballet , she did what she was told . |
| 30 | So this then , all o a th these techniques when applied erm er er as an ensemble then all allow you to look at the single channel currents , the currents flowing through any given channel , and as well as the effects of external and internal regulators . |