Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So having looked at the relationship between business and the voluntary sector today , let's take a brief look at the future . |
| 2 | I think you just got thrown at the beginning and I think he you off and |
| 3 | I think if you do n't do that , you 'll very easily become over-influenced at the time by the fact that it is a crisis you 're dealing with . |
| 4 | Two hours later , the body has drifted far downstream , finally getting wedged at the top of the weir in Parson 's Pleasure — the place where the careless Howard Brown had earlier left his yellow programme — and his continental seven … |
| 5 | For example , when we complained about our laundry not getting done at the hotel , and about our rooms not being done , it was Sun who went to the hotel and sorted things out . |
| 6 | If you had told any of Britain 's hard-pressed post-war chancellors that they could expand the economy vigorously and turn round the external accounts by 6.5 per cent of GDP without adverse consequences , would they not have jumped at the chance ? |
| 7 | If Hugh and Prior Robert had not been well mounted , and the elderly but resolute former steward of Ramsey forced to go afoot , they could not have arrived at the cathedral priory of Worcester within a day of each other . |
| 8 | Fragment A is more difficult to analyse as the evidence is incomplete and the habit of keeping to a set rate of progress may not have evolved at the A stage of composition ; but it could have been completed between June 1758 and April 1759 , in a shorter or longer time depending on whether he wrote one verse or three each day . |
| 9 | The old order may not have changed at the front but there are encouraging signs for the future further down the field . |
| 10 | The other proviso of course , is our commitment to ninety , nineteen ninety four , and nineteen ninety five , not having arrived at the end of the financial year yet , we 're still in the position of having to forecast what those commitments will be . |
| 11 | On thawing in spring the fine soil collapses and falls past the stones , which thus become isolated at the surface and encircle the actively freezing and thawing material . |
| 12 | Already a variety of vendors are attempting to create user interfaces which go beyond GUIs , but not have appeared at the time of writing in 1990 . |
| 13 | Runners , coaches and athletics writers the world over have puzzled at the success of Mota and 38-year-old Pedrosa . |
| 14 | The greatest of 'em all , Abraham Lincoln , received a belated musical nod during 1968 , when songwriter Dick Holler linked the 16th President 's name to that of the Kennedy 's and Martin Luther King to provide Dion with a three million seller in ‘ Abraham , Martin And John ’ , while Ulysses Simpson Grant , the next Republican to be called to office in Lincoln 's wake , was hailed by Patrick Gilmore 's ‘ President Grant 's March ’ , which still gets played at the White House during various ceremonies , though far older is ‘ Hail To The Chief ’ , a ditty based on a poem by Sir Walter Scott , which was first played at the inauguration of James Knox Polk , in 1845 , and has been retained to announce the arrival of presidents ever since . |
| 15 | Although thus easy so far — albeit unexpectedly — he could hardly have guessed at the difficulties ahead . |
| 16 | The name of John Gould soon became synonymous with the fantastic bower-bird , and gave a new ornithological slant to one of the popular songs of the day : ‘ Will you join in the evening and charm us as you ever have done at the piano ’ , asked Gould of Mrs Owen shortly after his return , ‘ … |
| 17 | We ( or they , as I would probably have said at the time ) now lived in a detached , fairly large house in a village in Berkshire ; my father taught at a primary school in a nearby village , and my mother had a job at the Harwell Atomic Research Establishment . |
| 18 | Companies are keen to adopt the ‘ open ’ moniker simply for that purpose : how many suppliers these days describe themselves as open systems companies , when just a few years ago they would probably have sneered at the term . |
| 19 | The T & G traditionally have looked at the G M B as er look down at sometimes at the G M B. I 've heard them described before as the sweepers up union and various other things . |
| 20 | There were early setbacks — the first hostel to open in Britain , Pennant Hall , closed almost immediately because its water supply was contaminated with manure , and Derwent Hall , first of the YHA 's fine old mansions , now lies drowned at the bottom of the Ladybower Reservoir . |
| 21 | Your work so far has looked at the case studies of three kinds of activities primary , secondary , and tertiary . |
| 22 | Typical barges , often seen moored at the mill , have an average of around 300 tonnes , the five barges owned by the company named after Gloucestershire villages . |
| 23 | ‘ We should really have started at the foundry , ’ said Wilcox , ‘ since that 's the first stage of our operation . |
| 24 | I should just about have finished at the hairdresser 's by then . ’ |
| 25 | It could well become agitated at the dispersal of the pigeons , turn its head towards the lights , and bark heatedly at the roadworkers . |
| 26 | We should n't have met at the apartment . |
| 27 | When planning staff at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire said the Union flag outside the Bell Hotel in the town needed planning permission because the flag pole was n't vertical , they could n't have guessed at the outcry . |
| 28 | So it 's like that without , I mean , with Carla , I mean , you ca n't you know , you just ca n't think when you 've got ta I mean she would have been bored and she would n't have looked at the gifts . |
| 29 | ‘ I should n't have looked at the paper — ’ |
| 30 | Oliver 's serenade will introduce us to Vitellia and Sesto , Annio and Servillia , and the Emperor Titus — ‘ and it will be clear that the first couple have a really terrible time , and that the second pair have a really nice time , and that the last gent , the one who does n't get married at the end , has to reconcile the emotions of the other four in himself . ’ |