Example sentences of "[verb] at [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kings were anointed at their crowning as the regent of God on earth . |
| 2 | Tonight Mike Rowbottom looks at what happens to the prisoners after they leave Grendon , in the final part of his series , Inside Story . |
| 3 | Let's begin by looking at what happened in the past , as it will give some insights into what took place in Utah in 1989 and help us understand better why people reacted in the ways that they did . |
| 4 | ‘ Looking at what happened in the US under the push of liberalisation in the air transport market , you ca n't necessarily say it was better afterward , ’ Silvestri said , carefully avoiding to choose the US telecommunications system as his example . |
| 5 | Policy development officer Sue Younger-Ross says : ‘ At the time , we were looking at what to offer under the new community care arrangements . |
| 6 | The repetitive purr of the telephone broke into the fragile atmosphere , and Shelley walked past Miguel without looking at him to go into the villa . |
| 7 | The above pattern may be correct for very slow speech , but we must now look at what happens to the rhythm in normal speech : many English speakers would feel that , although in ‘ twenty places ’ the right-hand foot is the stronger , the word ‘ twenty ’ is stronger than ‘ places ’ in ‘ twenty places further back ’ when spoken in conversational style . |
| 8 | Let us look at what happens in the nuclear family when Mr Patient dies . |
| 9 | So you can look at that , not just sort of little symbols er not really meaning much but we 're going to look at what happens to the current . |
| 10 | ‘ Ray 's always moaning at me to get in the box . |
| 11 | Born , they held it like a long skinned thing and for a moment she stared at it hanging in the air not knowing if it was alive or dead , good or bad , not believing it was over . |
| 12 | The young , dark man looked at it lying on the floor . |