Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investigations are continuing to discover how the two cars came to collide at the Great Stainton crossroads on the narrow road . |
| 2 | Our company is exchanging greetings with the young soldiers when suddenly a white car refuses to stop at the next checkpoint up the street — braking only slightly and seeking to swerve past the two soldiers . |
| 3 | And young Paul Daly , the son of Brian , had a rather one-sided 21-10 win over Martin McHugh of Carrickfergus in the under-25 singles semi-final after McHugh selected to drive at the wrong time , which was right up Daly 's street . |
| 4 | However , the same block grant system was retained , and the GREA formulae tightened to produce at the local level deductions of grant for all levels of expenditure . |
| 5 | Sir Wilfred Grenfell of Labrador came to speak at the White Rock Pavilion , Hastings , at his request . |
| 6 | the situa , perhaps it 's worth outlining how Litchfield came to look at the new settlement option , because it has some relevance to York |
| 7 | First , it is appropriate for those working with a child to try to communicate at the right level ; this means introducing language structures with which the child is already familiar and trying to ensure that the content of conversations is appropriate to the child 's ability to understand and to her interests . |
| 8 | At the second attempt she made the connection and heard the telephone begin to ring at the other end . |
| 9 | Why so many of the other directors chose to sell at the same time is not known to me . |
| 10 | Planners need to look at the long term provision of locally based day care as well as reviewing current provision in terms of suitability , costs etc . |
| 11 | Although Denmark and the UK won temporary exemption from lifting internal border controls , Spain refused to sign at the last minute on the grounds that the agreement might prejudice its claims to sovereignty over Gibraltar . ] |
| 12 | Having attended the first General Commissioners ' hearing on 10 April 1991 , the debtor and his accountant failed to appear at the adjourned hearing on 19 June 1991 . |
| 13 | Whether Skelton needs to expand at the present moment is not for me to say . |
| 14 | So this was quite a mission which I believe has not been adequately covered in the history and was a forerunner of things to come and like I say we got through that mission without any damage , our gunners got to shoot at the first German fighters and we were an experienced crew with one mission under our belt . |
| 15 | Luckily , one of the participants had to withdraw at the last moment and taking her place on the team , I went off in search of sponsors . |
| 16 | His fingers began to scrabble at the coarse edge of the steel plate . |
| 17 | News of the victory spread as the clans began to muster at the appointed time at Glenfinnan , which , with the mountains rising all around the tranquil waters of the loch , provided an intensely dramatic setting for the formal beginning of the campaign . |
| 18 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA plans to pitch at the top-end of the volume workstation business with high-performance machines built around Digital Equipment Corp 's Alpha RISC that will compete with the likes of Sun Microsystems Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp — if it can figure out how to market the things . |
| 19 | Overall this looks to be a group with the physical and mental resources needed to play at the top level in New Zealand . |
| 20 | There have been a number of studies attempting to look at the vexed question of the effect of healing of oesophagitis on oesophageal function . |
| 21 | Characteristically , Adam decided to stay at the best hotel in Dresden . |
| 22 | The question puzzled me for I had not mentioned Sister Island , nor its old name of Murder Cay , to either the police or to the Defence Forces , nor had Billingsley troubled to look at the pencilled line on the chart , yet he had somehow connected Hirondelle with the mysterious island . |
| 23 | Dulé leaned to look at the dark husk that was the old woman 's body ; shadows bound the close air inside the room and he could see her only as a lighter shape . |
| 24 | ( 8 ) The more female ducks the males have to look at the more time they spend looking at them . |
| 25 | If CFC emissions continue to increase at the current rate , they would cause an extra 2C of warming over the same period . |
| 26 | The lift came to rest at the first floor and the door slid open . |
| 27 | Should two adjacent needles try to tuck at the same time , there is nothing between these two needles to actually hold the loops on to the individual needles , so the loops become just one loop , which often falls off both needles . |
| 28 | Dozens of beleagured businessmen in the midst of a painful recession were due to hear Michael Hesletine speak at this conference in Oxfordshire , but the President of the Board of Trade had to cancel at the last minute and the delegates instead got a DTi stand-in . |
| 29 | No longer does he have to hover over the rod trying to strike at the slightest movement . |
| 30 | The SARFU wanted to play the test at Johannesburg 's Ellis Park , the biggest ground in the country , where gate receipts would be huge , while the ARFU wanted to play at the low altitude venues of either Durban 's King 's Park or Cape Town 's Newlands Stadium . |