Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Objectors and supporters wanting to speak at the inquiry were asked to complete forms listing the witnesses they intended calling and roughly how long each piece of evidence would take . |
| 2 | In his Sonnets Shakespeare achieved the rather remarkable feat of turning to new and individual ends a genre that had flourished throughout Europe for several centuries and was in effect beginning to die at the time when he wrote , in the mid 1590s . |
| 3 | Dig in when you can feel flower heads starting to form at the base . |
| 4 | A vehicle volunteering to stop at the zebra crossing can only stop one of the two lanes , with no control over the other . |
| 5 | I went to London two weeks running to look at the Tower ! ’ |
| 6 | With almost half the present team threatening to retire at the end of the season — and who can blame them if it means that they go out on a high note — this was excellent news . |
| 7 | As can be imagined , trying to obtain reasonable samples of the general population for relatively short interviews on such topics as voting behaviour or food preferences can result in a lot of interviewers having to call at a lot of houses over all towns and cities in the country . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's no one of any consequence in London at the moment , ’ she told him , ‘ but you wo n't be able to move for the millions of nobodies going to look at the Tower . ’ |
| 9 | Which is why you s when you set it up , you 've got to say , Well what are people going to do at the end of the workshop , that demonstrates that they 've learnt something from it ? |
| 10 | Earlier Kevin McNamara , Labour 's shadow Northern Ireland Secretary , described his own meeting on Ulster policy as ‘ overshadowed by a man coming to gloat at the scene of one the gravest blows to democracy carried out in these islands : the bombing of the Conservative Party conference ’ . |
| 11 | It rolled along the road coming to rest at the edge of the headlight beam . |
| 12 | ( Abrams was a young , bright , sharp lawyer , always well-tailored , and with an air of fierce aceticism ; he will reappear often in this story as a man trying to keep at the edge of it , and usually succeeding . |
| 13 | He was lying in the space between the two large central examination tables , face downwards , his left hand seeming to claw at the floor , his right arm hunched beneath him His legs were straight . |
| 14 | The most complete ( fig. 45 ) is a charming picture of a family going to sacrifice at an altar . |
| 15 | a game played by holding in the closed hand one or two items , the other player having to guess at the number . |