Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [to-vb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I began 1982 with a series of visits to look at the issues which were facing the health service . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Carpenter bees use their saw-jaws to cut holes in the sides of flowers to get at the nectaries . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ISO has three detector systems for astronomers to position at the telescope 's focus to investigate different aspects of infrared sources . |
| 10 | With the Tunnel , you can commute to the City from France faster than from , say , Wiltshire or Dorset — which are the in places to live at the moment . |
| 11 | This effect causes impurities in solids to accumulate at the grain boundaries ( and also vacancies , that is , holes ) and this may cause the grain boundary to become a line of weakness . |
| 12 | Finally he took me in to his office and said he was looking for Girls to work at the Winter Gardens , Blackpool . |
| 13 | There is so much opportunity for children to look at the nature of the physical world around them which is n't taken advantage of , and which could be , and I think that may have something to do with the attitude of teachers as much as the attitude of children . |
| 14 | There is so much opportunity for children to look at the nature of the physical world around them which is n't taken advantage of , and which could be , and I think that may have something to do with the attitude of teachers as much as the attitude of children . |
| 15 | Blake has calculated that for speeds of up to 2 ½ metres per second , it is more efficient for dolphins to swim at the surface . |