Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] " 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 | When such a clear target has been voiced and accepted , ideas for units begin to flow at a rate which the technology and the programmer find difficult to cope with . |
| 3 | Dig in when you can feel flower heads starting to form at the base . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It will issue CDs with a maturity expected to coincide with a liquidity surplus and hold CDs expected to mature at a time of shortage . |
| 6 | Fairyland was once called Mirryland or Marayland , and it was here witches claimed to ride at the time of their Sabbats . |
| 7 | The action in London had an immediate effect elsewhere as crews began to protest at the Government 's intervention . |
| 8 | The action taken in London had an immediate affect elsewhere as ambulance crews began to protest at the Government 's intervention . |
| 9 | The action taken in London had an immediate affect elsewhere as ambulance crews began to protest at the Government 's intervention . |
| 10 | Public sector workers tried to hit at the state with minimum disruption of services to consumers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I went to London two weeks running to look at the Tower ! ’ |
| 16 | Any proposals to alter the situation faced by older workers have to work at a number of levels : developing new social roles ; using legislation to change attitudes ; improving work prospects ; raising income levels ; increasing the effectiveness of health and social policies . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ We should not expect our tenants to have to look at the mess caused by their careless neighbours , ’ said Coun Dixon . |
| 19 | As can be imagined , trying to obtain reasonable samples of the general population for relatively short interviews on such topics as voting behaviour or food preferences can result in a lot of interviewers having to call at a lot of houses over all towns and cities in the country . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | Councillors agreed to look at the possibility of closing off Roedowns Road to help with possible traffic-flow problems . |
| 24 | Half a dozen of Chris Crackenthwaite 's apprentices pass down the street just as the girls begin to arrive at the Market Hall factory . |
| 25 | — THE stars continue to shine at The Mall , Stockton in the vein of TV 's Stars In Their Eyes . |
| 26 | In December 1987 the cost-of-living index was 170 per cent above its level in December of the previous year , and even under the ‘ price freeze ’ of the first few months of 1988 , prices continued to rise at a rate equivalent to an annual rate of about 100 per cent . |
| 27 | The curtain went up at 2 pm , so the children had to arrive at the theatre at about 1.15 to get ready . |
| 28 | Still , the tracers had to start at the beginning , their call-finder mechanism racing frantically through the twenty thousand numbers on the exchange . |
| 29 | As industries continue to concentrate at the world level , the forces described in this chapter raise two possibilities . |
| 30 | Last night ministers continued to look at a compromise prepared by the EC commissioner Sir Leon Brittan , incorporating a Dutch-led formula where the higher level would be the norm but governments would have the option of asking Brussels to intervene for mergers breaking £1.4bn . |