Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [noun sg] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This solution works particularly well in houses which have evolved over several centuries , where it is possible to repair a wing at a time , selling the houses as they near completion and recycling the investment . |
| 2 | Improved communications have increased the ability of firms in some sectors to provide a service at a distance , as for mail-order shopping and database management . |
| 3 | Also the Transport Authority was expressly empowered to require the Executive to provide a service at a cost the Executive considered to be too high , so long as the Transport Authority provided the necessary additional cost . |
| 4 | Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful . |
| 5 | An education voucher , for example , could be used to obtain a place at a state school , or as part payment of private school fees . |
| 6 | House blaze : Fire crews were called out to tackle a blaze at a house in The Greenway , Middleton St George yesterday . |
| 7 | A Phocaean aristocrat happened to be the guest of the king of the Ligurian tribe of the Segobrigi when the king 's daughter was made to choose a husband at a banquet . |
| 8 | You 'd g had to parade on the Sunday erm for weapon training , and one Sunday we earlier on , we had n't fired a rifle , so it was arranged for us to fire a rifle at a rifle range . |
| 9 | Chariots can not move over obstacles or difficult terrain except to cross a river at a bridge or ford . |
| 10 | The hearing in Belfast today was called after a loyalist remand prisoner , Samuel McCrory , 27 , was refused permission to wear a poppy at a Remembrance Day church service inside the jail . |
| 11 | A LOYALIST remand prisoner in Ulster has lost a court battle for permission to wear a poppy at a prison remembrance service on Sunday . |
| 12 | If at the end of three months you decide that this is too elaborate for you or you 'd like to , if you need to see a week at a glance , er , you just call my office , send back the pages you have n't used , and we would exchange those er , for the equivalent in a different format . |
| 13 | She was delighted with her bottle of champagne and admits to having to hazard a guess at a couple of the ‘ young managers ’ . |
| 14 | Have to do a bit at a time . |
| 15 | H. P. We used to keep an eye on pubs where the sergeant and the constable used to do a month at a time , visiting the cinemas , theatres , and public houses , licensed places , and do some pubs , night after night — just checking things , and at five past ten , you 'd be right in checking they were keeping to closing time . |
| 16 | I 've been in two minds about whether to bother with the ABA this year , but the news that Baroness Thatcher and Margaret Atwood are to share a platform at a Book and Author Breakfast has made my mind up for me . |
| 17 | The company plans to build a factory at a site 700 miles North of Moscow in conjunction with the Russian Kamaz engineering company and wants Mr Mukwala fluent in Russian after spending six years at Moscow University to help liaise with the local workforce . |
| 18 | Yousefi , 37 , was caught in London as he tried to cash a cheque at a bank . |
| 19 | Kaisa , bored by the proceedings , takes advantage of the slack trace and goes over to have a look at a tree . |
| 20 | Well he does , he goes in on Saturdays very often , he goes in on Sundays very often , you know , goes up to have a look at a site or goes into the office to look over something in peace without the phone ringing all that 's sort of thing , he puts in a lot of time that 's not strictly accounted for , Gerry did , I did as a teacher , but then we were well paid . |
| 21 | I went to the Norfolk Broads , and erm I think it was Saturday morning we went to have a look at a flat , |
| 22 | If you 're going to use this by by rewarding specific desired behaviour you need to have a look at a reward list and there 's a whole range of potential rewards that 've been around . |
| 23 | There is the opportunity to have a look at a slide show and purchase promotional gifts . |
| 24 | Everyone has the right to a church funeral , and for the body to be taken to the church , but it is not necessary to have a service at a funeral whether it is a burial or a cremation . |
| 25 | I just mean that the school , in the shape of its teachers , expected you to have a go at a lot of things and do well . |
| 26 | If the Times wishes to have a go at a book , then at least the paper should choose one that is worthy of shot and shell . |
| 27 | One of Gaudi 's sculptures , after all , shows an anarchist about to toss a grenade at a statue of the Virgin Mary . |
| 28 | Of those bats which use echo-location many also use sight to locate a prey at a distance , but employ their short-range sonar for actually closing in and catching it . |
| 29 | One of the most maligned concrete shopping centres is to get a facelift at a cost of £60 million . |
| 30 | On Friday 4th March we all went out of Peking by bus to spend a morning at a commune — part of the ‘ Open-Door Schooling ’ policy , the idea being that by interpreting for us at the commune , and by collecting information etc. , the students could improve their English , and also devise suitable English-teaching materials based on commune life . |