Example sentences of "[verb] at [pron] [noun] for the " in BNC.

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1 She left him there , and went to have a bath : dressed briskly , went downstairs to inspect the damage , had a coffee , looked at her list for the day .
2 In this welcoming speech Mr M A Prouten , executive chairman of Brooke Marine , recalled that Searcher was not the first ship to be built at his yard for the Customs Department .
3 If you smoke , give it up ; vow to think first before buying anything expensive ; and look at your finances for the future — will you be secure when you 're older ?
4 The foregoing chapters will , it is hoped , form a sufficient background and we may now begin to look at their implications for the social worker and for the social work profession .
5 It was not a risk he was likely to take , even if it meant him staying at his desk for the next twenty-four hours .
6 It is thus that I arrive at my multiplier for the whole life of eighteen .
7 Loretta took out her diary , and looked at her schedule for the week .
8 She looked at her watch for the fourth time in two minutes .
9 Jake looked at his watch for the hundredth , maybe the five hundredth time .
10 He was pacing back and forth , mulling over what he would say to her , when the biology student knocked at his door for the loan of a shilling for the gas-meter .
11 You can ask at your branch for the balance on your account , or even find it out using one of your bank 's automated machines .
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