Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] at [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My old friend Fred Emery , who presented the programme from the Falklands , told us — and I have confirmed this from other sources — that the Cabinet is struggling to decide whether to build a new airstrip alongside Stanley 's existing facilities or , as has been hinted at in the Commons , on an entirely new site . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , this expectation has been arrived at without the agreement of the partners involved — which is to say , for the most part , Japan . |
| 3 | Mr. Teddy Taylor : To ask the Lord President of the Council if he will take steps to ensure that European documents are considered by the House of Commons before a common position has been arrived at by the Council of Ministers ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 4 | Miranda taller , with her bushy hair and colouring that the Italians whose paintings she 'd been looking at in the Louvre rendered by priming the canvas with a copper-based green paint , creating a complexion that draws light in rather than gives it out ; Xanthe beside her with her candy radiance of pink and gold , and rounder too , more neatly assembled , wrist to hand , neck to shoulders , ankle to foot . |
| 5 | Back then , those things which could n't be said were hinted at in the grain of those luscious voices . |
| 6 | The report that hon. Members receive and that the public pick up outside would have been looked at from the point of view of the client , the promoter and the public interest . |
| 7 | Haverford asked on the children 's behalf , but they had already found it , scampering away through the display of giant dolls , plastic picnic tables , local cheese and wine , and returned resentful at having been glowered at by the resident guardian because they had n't understood the purpose of her saucer of lire . |
| 8 | An example occurs in a more recent film , When Harry Met Sally … ( 1989 ) , where a period feel is aimed at in the earlier parts of the film though the period is as recent as 1983 . |
| 9 | The sport is not new to Teesside where the game was known to have been played at about the turn of the century on six lawns at Albert Park , Middlesbrough until it was pushed out by tennis . |
| 10 | After a one-minute search , he noticed the National Geographic magazine which he had been looking at with the teacher earlier in the day . |
| 11 | Gqozo 's claim that his troops had been shot at by the demonstrators ( ballistics evidence showed that the one dead Ciskei soldier was shot by his fellow soldiers ) . |
| 12 | Similar proposals for another single-lead junction near Yoker had been submitted at about the same time , the inquiry was told , but Dr Hill had insisted that ScotRail justify its use . |
| 13 | An understanding had been arrived at with the Danish Tourist Board that nothing of the fabric or the furnishings and fittings in either the Tuscan Villa or The Tamarisks should be altered ; the houses had been complete works of art when they were taken over and were to be respected as such . |
| 14 | I must know how , I 've been looking at at the . |
| 15 | As I understand the Leeds position , they want what they call a lev a level playing field , or to be aiming at the same goalposts that they 've been aiming at for the last number of years . |
| 16 | It 's what we 've been working at for the last three years . |
| 17 | The cost at the time the system was developed was estimated at about the same as the salary of one personnel officer — for one year — without the costs of an office , car or secretary that the officer would need . |
| 18 | The following points have been arrived at with the agreement of Dr Will : |
| 19 | Some of them have been got at by the plant-breeders and bear no resemblance to the species or variety originally discovered ; some remain the same , being already sufficiently beautiful or useful . |
| 20 | In the decades since , it 's been glanced at by the likes of Hal Ashby , Anthony Quinn and Jack Nicholson , before finally arriving on the desk of Blake Edwards , where a script by Cry Freedom writer John Briley jostles for space with Son Of Pink Panther . |
| 21 | I I I I know er it 's been looked at by the D T I but has it been looked at by the treasury itself ? |