Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [to-vb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Objectors and supporters wanting to speak at the inquiry were asked to complete forms listing the witnesses they intended calling and roughly how long each piece of evidence would take . |
| 2 | Dig in when you can feel flower heads starting to form at the base . |
| 3 | Wild water buffaloes come to drink at the villus , where their calves run the risk of being snatched by the jaws of a large mugger , the marsh crocodile of the Far East . |
| 4 | Fairyland was once called Mirryland or Marayland , and it was here witches claimed to ride at the time of their Sabbats . |
| 5 | The action in London had an immediate effect elsewhere as crews began to protest at the Government 's intervention . |
| 6 | The action taken in London had an immediate affect elsewhere as ambulance crews began to protest at the Government 's intervention . |
| 7 | The action taken in London had an immediate affect elsewhere as ambulance crews began to protest at the Government 's intervention . |
| 8 | Public sector workers tried to hit at the state with minimum disruption of services to consumers . |
| 9 | When prospective buyers came to look at the house , which happened more and more frequently , they stayed out of the way until they had gone . |
| 10 | When fire protection officials came to look at the dump they discovered mattresses deposited by a bed company , furniture and even potentially hazardous oil cans . |
| 11 | Silence spread slowly across the supper tables as the hundreds of guests turned to stare at the Rifleman who , in turn , searched the supper tables for a particular person . |
| 12 | How it was defended by those at the core of the community and how cracks began to appear at the periphery gives Hubauer the material to explore the hypothesis that extrinsic influences are likely to affect allegiances when scientists experience rival theories as incommensurable paradigms . |
| 13 | I went to London two weeks running to look at the Tower ! ’ |
| 14 | A few rich families began to emerge at the top of such societies and the numbers of poor cottagers grew significantly , but the old-established middling families long remained the backbone of many a rural community . |
| 15 | ‘ We should not expect our tenants to have to look at the mess caused by their careless neighbours , ’ said Coun Dixon . |
| 16 | There is a limited amount of money available for these payments , so social fund officers have to look at the needs of all those who apply for help and decide which needs can be met . |
| 17 | Cheques have to arrive at the registrars by Thursday 10 September so post them by next Tuesday at the earliest . |
| 18 | Firefighters expect to stay at the scene for at least the rest of the day — the strain of working amoung the debris under which two of their friends died shows only too clear to see . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's no one of any consequence in London at the moment , ’ she told him , ‘ but you wo n't be able to move for the millions of nobodies going to look at the Tower . ’ |
| 20 | In the 1920s , when astronomers began to look at the spectra of stars in other galaxies , they found something most peculiar : there were the same characteristic sets of missing colours as for stars in our own galaxy , but they were all shifted by the same relative amount toward the red end of the spectrum . |
| 21 | ‘ It'a sport which can teach agility and movement at a basic level through to the very high skill levels required to compete at the top . |
| 22 | Councillors agreed to look at the possibility of closing off Roedowns Road to help with possible traffic-flow problems . |
| 23 | Half a dozen of Chris Crackenthwaite 's apprentices pass down the street just as the girls begin to arrive at the Market Hall factory . |
| 24 | — THE stars continue to shine at The Mall , Stockton in the vein of TV 's Stars In Their Eyes . |
| 25 | Children came to laugh at the animals as they rocked autistically or broke into tantrums ; creatures accustomed to marking out miles of territory in a single day were now constrained to prowl and circle in a few narrow yards . |
| 26 | The curtain went up at 2 pm , so the children had to arrive at the theatre at about 1.15 to get ready . |
| 27 | Still , the tracers had to start at the beginning , their call-finder mechanism racing frantically through the twenty thousand numbers on the exchange . |
| 28 | Then the princess 's soldiers began to batter at the doors of the wooden fortress with their axes . |
| 29 | The squabbling became more bitter , and the adults began to snap at the children . |
| 30 | As industries continue to concentrate at the world level , the forces described in this chapter raise two possibilities . |