Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I explained how I 'd attempted to fire at the Corporal as Kaptan lay on the ground and how the gun had malfunctioned ; it would be more accurate to say I 'd been first to aim but the Corporal had got his shots off first . |
| 2 | It must have been nearly three months before I heard from Mrs Ainsworth , and in fact I had begun to wonder at the bassets ' long symptomless run when she came on the phone . |
| 3 | Let's go and have coffee first , and then I 've got to call at the bank to get some cash , and dump that package , before we start shopping . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've got to speak at the women 's Institute . |
| 5 | That was when Buckley arrived from Kettering , with Grimsby in Division Four , just seven players on the staff and a debt of £850,000 that someone had forgotten to mention at the job interview . |
| 6 | For my GCSE Open Study I have chosen to look at the theme of obsessional love in ‘ The Collector ’ by John Fowles and ‘ The Great Gatsby ’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald . |
| 7 | I have continued to stay at the Abbey of Holy Rood involved in the matter assigned to me . |
| 8 | In that context I have had to look at the definition of a specific issue order which is contained in section 8(1) of the Act and I know , from talking to those who have been concerned with this Act and are familiar with it , that they have no doubt at all as to what that definition means . |
| 9 | It is true that we are more enlightened than we were ; there is a public which has learnt to smile at the reviewer who declares that a line ‘ will not scan ’ , or that it contains a ‘ trochee ’ where it should have had an ‘ iamb ’ , without considering whether it was ever intended to ‘ scan ’ , or whether there is anything in English verse which can be treated as the absolute equivalent of a Greek or Latin trochee . |
| 10 | I used to ring up the ambulance people : ‘ There 's a fight and somebody 's got hurt at the Queen 's Head . ’ |
| 11 | But before you do you 've got to look at the material in the working file . |
| 12 | Her body was found in a hall of residence only hours after she 'd arrived to teach at a summer school of the Open University … today courses continued despite the tragedy … |
| 13 | NOW YOU 'VE stopped laughing at the idea of Kevin Costner in tights , you can have a chuckle at the cast rumoured to be lined up for his Robin Hood movie Prince Of Thieves — Danny DeVito ( above ) as Friar Tuck , either Patsy Kensit , Emily Lloyd or Imogen Stubbs as Maid Marian and as Robin 's big buddy Little John , John Goodman , who is reported to have been paid $750,000 just to stay interested in playing Fred Flintstone while the producers look for a script |
| 14 | What they do , I mean just play a game , it 's just a ga it 's a it 's a game , like sort of Simon says , try and catch them out in things , you 'll say right , now you 've got to point at a window , say , and then you have to point at , and you can get them all doing it , you |
| 15 | right , now what you 've got to judge at the end of the day , now lets say for instance that you 've put in six lines six lines , right and you only wanted to use two of them all you 've got a number for is the rental charge is n't it ? |
| 16 | You 've got to survive at the end of the day . |
| 17 | You 've got to look at the real situation . |
| 18 | Before you really get down to doing anything , you 've got to look at the problem , and , and really sort of try and analyse what is going on , and what bit of the problem are you going to work on . |
| 19 | No but you see , you 've got to look at the type of , we look at the type of illnesses that people suffer from in a minute , and sort of , you know , a day here , a week there , somebody has a month somewhere else . |
| 20 | did you ever raise with him back in January nineteen eighty eight something that you and Mr had both raised before , namely that what goes into the brochure is not to be relied on you 've got to look at the solicitors correspondence , to interpret what is in the brochure , did you ? , did you ever raise that with Mr the solicitor 's correspondence ? |
| 21 | It 's a bit like what we 've been doing before where you 've got to look at the money . |
| 22 | You 've got to look at the other positive thing as well though that if it comes out as a target and there are specific training needs there throughout the |
| 23 | She had gone to stand at the cemetery end after spotting Uncle Vernon on the touchline in front of the club-house . |
| 24 | The Kurd , whom she had expected to flee at the first shaking of the ground , was staying with them . |
| 25 | The cornflower-blue dress she had brought to wear at the finals had been slept on by Ethel and was impossibly creased , as was her face after two nights sleeping in the car . |
| 26 | But the woman 's insults rankled , as did her earlier insolence — for her contemptuous glance had raked Theda 's person when she had dared to ask at the Feathers for a room for the night . |
| 27 | She had come to look at the frescos of Sandweg , the frescos that interpreted the story of the Massacre of the Innocents — the slaughter of the male children of Bethlehem at the behest of Herod . |
| 28 | One young girl who had stood giggling at the hapless Mark for more than ten minutes was told that she could go back to her department as she 'd waited long enough . |
| 29 | Terence was Jessica 's cousin , who had come sniffing at the Cultra house a couple of times early in Karen 's visit . |
| 30 | By Sept. 27 there were reports that the Iraqi authorities , who had introduced rationing at the beginning of the month , were warning that they would not be able to guarantee food supplies for foreigners beyond the end of September , but Iraq stated on Sept. 29 that there were " no plans to deprive foreign nationals of ration coupons " . |