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

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1 The Hudson 's Bay Company went on trading at its posts on the shore of the Bay , and did rather well for its shareholders , but French fur traders moved out beyond the Great Lakes and by the 1740s La Verendrye had led them to places well west of the Bay .
2 Well so much for the sea surface temperatures of the past , but we 've been looking at our records of the compounds in the sediments even more carefully and what we 've seen in there are molecular fingerprints which do not match those of the marine organisms .
3 ‘ John , you 're not trying ! ’ and you look at your feet in the mirror , ugly , unable to do the things which you want them to do , or see your body collapse in the middle when you know that it should be firm and rigid — and see them all , even the children , doing something , following what you can not follow .
4 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 ?
5 When I look at my colleagues in the US , I ca n't say that total competition is total success . ’
6 Each night when we 'd finished our various tasks he would look at our hands by the light of a candle and probe with a needle for splinters .
7 The university had one college , Birkbeck , which awarded degrees to evening students so that they might work at their jobs during the day .
8 Three RYA teaching videos , produced at our centres over the last three years , are now standard teaching texts used in a number of countries .
9 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 .
10 I had always felt embarrassed and had to look at my feet in the presence of anyone playing any musical instrument , and had realised once when watching Syl spitting and squinting at his oboe that this was because it was irresistibly evocative of masturbation .
11 Considerable differences later arose between Hall and Pennethorne as to what was agreed at their meetings about the larger scheme .
12 We knew he was coming because we could see him calling at our neighbours in the yard first .
13 My next move was to mask out the central picture area with a piece of paper , taped at its edges onto the existing strips of masking tape .
14 He had another good chance when a high ball landed at his feet at the 18 yard line with no defenders in front of him .
15 As she leaned forward to do so , before our very eyes the trout leapt from the water , about three feet in the air , did a neat twist and landed at my feet in the bottom of the boat .
16 He accepted that the Colonel 's look of complacent ownership had prompted Mariana 's question , and that his mother , her face unseen by her escort , who lounged at her feet on the grass , projected a sense of distance and of slight embarrassment at the relationship implied by the taking of the picture .
17 It was a gesture that touched her , and as she walked away along the fragrant walkway towards the road up to Rosie 's villa she looked at her fingers in the moonlight , and found herself smiling .
18 He looked at her hands on the steering-wheel .
19 The press scoffed at his walks in the Kalahari Desert , at his fascination with lost and ancient tribes ; but experiences like that , plus a lifetime of travelling all over the world , seeing underdeveloped and overdeveloped countries and every kind of political regime , has brought him to this viewpoint .
20 They product five superb maps of the reef , free if you call at their offices near the quay .
21 Eventually she took some goods her husband had left at her lodgings to the Police Station .
22 DARLINGTON Music Society has had some superb and famous musicians and ensembles play at their concerts over the years , yet the young Grieg Trio from Norway must rank among the very best .
23 The local RCM committees followed up in the wake of evacuation , but this was too late for orthodox children arriving at their billets on the evening of Friday , 1 September .
24 If after our Booking Allocation has been issued , you wish to change to another of our holidays or alter your booking in any way ( e.g. by changing your departure date or accommodation ) we will do our utmost to make the changes , provided written notification is received at our offices from the person who signed the Booking Form , or your Travel Agent , at least six weeks before your departure date .
25 Over this cap , from the front to the back is a strong iron crest , D-shaped in cross-section and hollow , riveted at its ends to the cap .
26 As the black perfume came tumbling over his breast , and he kissed it sweet in the moonlight , a sweet in the moonlight , and he tugged at his reigns in the moonlight , and galloped away to the west .
27 Then he tugged at his reins in the moonlight , and galloped away to the West .
28 In Madrid , intolerable in the heats of summer , sentries froze at their posts in the winter .
29 Poet Software Corp reckons it has the first object database for NT ( CI No 2,176 ) , but Objectivity Inc is stomping at its heels with the Objectivity/DB Starter Kit for Windows NT , also claiming it to ‘ the first object-oriented database management system for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system ’ .
30 Poet reckons it has the first object database for NT , but Objectivity Inc is stomping at its heels with the Objectivity/DB Starter Kit for Windows NT , also claiming it to ‘ the first object-oriented database management system for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system ’ .
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