Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [to-vb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob Wilson was so confident that the deal would go through that some weeks before it was even completed he had given authorisation for work to begin at the Boeing factory in Seattle to modify the aircraft to British CAA regulations and finish it in the red and grey Virgin livery . |
| 2 | Seeing no future in hearts West then found the club switch and East took the next six club tricks , leaving only six tricks for declarer to collect at the end . |
| 3 | COMMUTERS stood on tracks disrupting London-bound trains yesterday in protest at British Rail 's ‘ scorched earth ’ policy for eliminating the perennial problem of leaves on the line More than 50 people at Carshalton , Surrey , swapped season tickets for placards to protest at the transformation of leafy tracksides into what one called a ‘ scene from Apocalypse Now ’ , the film about the Vietnam war which showed the effects of mass defoliation with napalm . |
| 4 | And I will also give you a good deal of freedom to look at the sea . ’ |
| 5 | As it melted , the fuel 's chemical reaction with the surrounding water also caused a bubble of hydrogen to form at the top of the reactor vessel . |
| 6 | He was bound in the sum of £40 to appear at the Michaelmas Quarter Sessions in Kendal , the banker Christopher Wilson standing surety for him , for £30 . |
| 7 | Given basic ability , equality of opportunity to borrow at the market rate of interest to invest in your human capital so as to secure a future return makes observed income inequality a matter of individual choice . |
| 8 | Inevitably this assault had to mean trouble for some of their own folk , since they must drive through the outer ring of Scots to get at the enemy — the cost which had caused Ramsay momentarily to hesitate . |
| 9 | I began 1982 with a series of visits to look at the issues which were facing the health service . |
| 10 | The rally , at the City Halls , Glasgow , will be attended by civil servants from the West of Scotland to protest at the Government 's market testing ( or privatisation ) programme . |
| 11 | There is still a lot of work to do at the Training Centre . ’ |
| 12 | You need a glass of wine to raise at the end of your speech if you are going to propose a toast . |
| 13 | Davis was the worst sort of person to have at the head of a monopolistic company . |
| 14 | Gradually , an expanse of intense colour and velvetine texture emerged ; the minute particles of pigment fell and dispersed causing a natural halo of colour to appear at the base of each panel . |
| 15 | They dynamited and burned our museums , and stole works of art to sell at the border with Thailand . |
| 16 | Oh , why do n't you make what you 've got cos you 've got a lot of things to make at the moment , and then come back and choose another time , hm . |
| 17 | The fourth and final section takes leave of society to look at the realm of theory . |
| 18 | In 1987 the Department of the Environment set up a national review of homelessness to look at the implementation of the law relating to homelessness and to consider whether it needed changing . |
| 19 | They function as a diversion to the eye , a focus for a view , a foretaste of grandeurs to come at the entrance to a park . |
| 20 | Carpenter bees use their saw-jaws to cut holes in the sides of flowers to get at the nectaries . |
| 21 | The Institute seems to be rather vaguely organized , as they still have n't been able to tell me what students I am teaching — my teaching , it turns out , does n't start until Monday , but I have heard that an abnormally large number of students have signed up for my course , so I shall have a lot of marking of papers to do at the end of four weeks . |
| 22 | The Attorney General would spend hours poring over the evidence before asking the Court of Appeal to look at the Courtney case . |
| 23 | At a time when we are on the threshold of change , indeed very considerable change , in local government and when our burghs which have been with us since the earliest times are about to disappear , it may be of interest to look at the burghs of Scotland prior to the passing of the Reform Act and their position in the election of Members for the Westminster Parliament . |
| 24 | For erosion to continue at the rates noted above it is necessary that the material supplied by the cliff should be transported away by the sea : otherwise there may be formed extensive beaches , spits , bars and comparable forms , which dissipate the energy of the waves and prevent , at least temporarily , the base of the cliff being attacked . |
| 25 | Plans were soon afoot for Edith to train at the Medau School in Berlin , and German language lessons were embarked upon , but the Munich crisis intervened . |
| 26 | Thus we are appealing for things to sell at the car boot sales , or maybe you would prefer to make a small donation to our funds . |
| 27 | So Brett 'n' Damon ‘ m ’ me hand about playing Stackheel Olympics for a bit and then we go into town to look at the girls . |
| 28 | The unnerving grey-green eyes narrowed slightly , and as Tara appeared with a tray he gestured for Virginia to sit at the table , his gaze not leaving her as she reluctantly did so . |
| 29 | ISO has three detector systems for astronomers to position at the telescope 's focus to investigate different aspects of infrared sources . |
| 30 | France halted aid to Togo in February to protest at the killing of pro-democracy demonstrators by soldiers loyal to President Gnassingbé Eyadéma . |