Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday we won a vital victory in having Attorney General Sir Nicholas Lyell agree to look at the case . |
| 2 | Wild water buffaloes come to drink at the villus , where their calves run the risk of being snatched by the jaws of a large mugger , the marsh crocodile of the Far East . |
| 3 | Edinburgh District Council have been consulted and officials from their Planning Department have looked at the route and agreed that it has good potential . |
| 4 | Edinburgh District Council have been consulted and officials from their Planning Department have looked at the route and agreed that it has good potential . |
| 5 | Three successive Home Secretaries have stood at the Dispatch Box and pledged to do away with holding prisoners in police cells . |
| 6 | And I know that Bob and Sue have booked at the Claremont so there 'll be quite a few of us there . |
| 7 | Two letterbombs have exploded at the homes of people who work with animals . |
| 8 | In six appearances in carcass competitions at the Royal Smithfield Show he has taken three major championships and three reserves ; his lambs have triumphed at the Birmingham Primestock Show ‘ umpteen times ’ and topped the lot at the first national Welsh Primestock Show last year at Builth Wells . |
| 9 | ‘ Where there is a contract for the sale of specific goods , and the goods without the knowledge of the seller have perished at the time when the contract is made , the contract is void . ’ |
| 10 | Other investigators have looked at the effects of unilateral ECT in relation to handedness . |
| 11 | Such bodies as ACAS , the TUC , or ad hoc commissions of inquiry have intervened at the request of the parties or of government to avoid the breakdown of negotiations , or to resolve existing disputes . |
| 12 | There were the initials GWE/BW typed at the top of the letter but they had n't helped . |
| 13 | Will my right hon. Friend undertake to look at the question afresh , please ? |
| 14 | I believe , ah , I believe the D S S do look at the situation , but they , before , yeah , |
| 15 | There is a limited amount of money available for these payments , so social fund officers have to look at the needs of all those who apply for help and decide which needs can be met . |
| 16 | Southampton v Sheff Wed Arsenal and Liverpool have lost at The Dell this season , so what price lowly Wednesday ? |
| 17 | Cheques have to arrive at the registrars by Thursday 10 September so post them by next Tuesday at the earliest . |
| 18 | ‘ Most people tend to gather at the track and do the group session , without even stopping to think what the training effect is doing to their body , or how they are going to progress next week , or the week after . ’ |
| 19 | Certainly the request of staff then could turn into of the panel erm but but I think at the same time if people want to look at the structure so that they have a complete view of the structural organisation |
| 20 | Firefighters expect to stay at the scene for at least the rest of the day — the strain of working amoung the debris under which two of their friends died shows only too clear to see . |
| 21 | FOOTNOTE : If it 's any comfort to Mel , his medic told us the toes of windscreen pirates get crushed at the rate of ONE A WEEK on the busy A4 London to Bath road . |
| 22 | If our jobless levels keep rising at the rate they have since the general election , then the north-east of Scotland may start to feel like the north-east of England . |
| 23 | Before exceptional items , Kingfisher also topped the profits forecast made at the time of its French acquisition , Darty , turning in £234.4 million before tax for the year to the end of January , an increase of 5.7 per cent . |
| 24 | Some people prefer to yell at the start of their movement to frighten their opponent and increase their own confidence . |
| 25 | Erm , clearly we are in a room full of people who have a more than marginal interest in the political process erm and that goes for your boundaries of Cambridge city councils er remit and clearly contains also to parliamentary methods erm I 'm trying not to be desperately partisan about this , I do n't expect anybody erm but a phrase has been used earlier this evening from another quarter about if it 's not broke do n't fix it , erm the boundary commission have looked at the boundaries of the Cambridge city constituency have found that it is up to ninety nine percent of the right and proper er number of electors . |
| 26 | From 1965 , when hanging was abolished to 1987 , thirty- ? ? ? ? ? ? ? people have died at the hands of men who 've killed before , served a prison sentence and been released . |
| 27 | From 1965 , when hanging was abolished to 1987 , thirty- ? ? ? ? ? ? ? people have died at the hands of men who 've killed before , served a prison sentence and been released . |
| 28 | Several big NorthEast names have worked at the studio including The Rye , The Candy Ranch and Procession . |
| 29 | However , profits have crashed at the liqueur-maker , which is controlled by the wealthy Mackinnon family , and in 1991 the newly-formed holding company reported a loss of around £4 million . |
| 30 | In recent years there has been an improvement in the standard and a number of top athletes have appeared at the event to earn it some respectability . |