Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [vb pp] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pupils are dissatisfied , and industry and commerce remain somewhat dismayed at the results from our schools . |
| 2 | Keown then left at the end of his contract after being unable to agree terms with Graham over a new deal — and alleging that the sticking point had been a request for £50 a week more than he was offered . |
| 3 | ‘ You look genuinely terrified at the thought , ’ he mocked . |
| 4 | It was a small timber building against the back edge of the pavement on land belonging to the Crystal Palace authorities and was set level with the scissors crossover now installed at the terminus . |
| 5 | However , if your left heel lifts during the backswing or both feet remain firmly planted at the top , bracing the right foot , leg and hip during the backswing remains crucial to the working of the legs during the forward swing . |
| 6 | I do n't know , I 've not looked at the programmes , there 's Churchill tonight at nine thirty , must look at that |
| 7 | I 've also looked at the approach in and National Coal Board . |
| 8 | We 've also looked at the needs of our local community , our local trade union movement and one of the things that we 're extremely concerned about is health and safety . |
| 9 | We 've even growled at the horse , and threatened it with a fate worse than death , but to no avail ! |
| 10 | The French have long chafed at the bit . |
| 11 | These general principles have long lain at the heart of the social purpose approach : and they are no less relevant today than in the 1900s . |
| 12 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd , ex-Premier Lord Callaghan and former ministers Lord Parkinson and Alan Clark have all dined at the Kundan . |
| 13 | Ultimately , however , it is easy for readers to charge that the mask was not penetrated , and therefore that we have only scratched at the surface . |
| 14 | The use of sacred measure and proportion has been developed by many researchers to postulate a geometrical pattern across the land , extending Watkins ' ley theory into wider concepts of ‘ landscape geometry ’ , and we have already looked at the work of Tyler , Lawton and Koop in exploring wider patterns . |
| 15 | We have already looked at the movement of settlements , changes in plan and form etc. in the landscape , but nevertheless for most of today 's settlements the criteria which applied when the settlement originated are no longer relevant . |
| 16 | Local authority housing provides an example of the former and we have already looked at the role of charges in the NHS . |
| 17 | We have already stressed at the end of Chapter 6 how important it is to record your daily weight and also to chart it and plot it on a monthly graph . |
| 18 | As a result of different levels of personal mobility , the former types of place have tended to attract people who are younger , better qualified , more enterprising and more wealthy and have thus gained at the expense of the larger cities and less dynamic industrial areas , causing the latter a double blow in terms of both quantity and quality . |
| 19 | So , until recently , the ideas behind the movement have largely remained at the level of slogans and their deeper implications have not really been worked out . |
| 20 | If you have ever looked at the ingredients list on your bag of Koi pellets , you may have been puzzled by the high ash content . |
| 21 | Fortunately , while traditional values have hardly changed at the dinner table , cooker design has . |
| 22 | ‘ I have always looked at the numbers to find out what we are actually doing — to measure what is happening . |
| 23 | I have always looked at the shortlist very much in terms of the dealer presence . |
| 24 | But power and resources have gradually concentrated at the centre , leading to fierce political bickering in recent years . |
| 25 | The fact that Y may have been quite innocent and have genuinely believed at the time that the goods were his to sell , gives him no defence either to a claim by Z for breach of contract or to a claim by O for conversion . |
| 26 | We are young and youth is said to be fickle , mutable , and we have both looked at the possibility of ourselves not being exceptions to that supposed rule . |
| 27 | However , he is also keen to hear from residents who have also suffered at the hands of thieves . |
| 28 | Kerry says neighbours have also suffered at the hands of thieves , but says that the police seem to be taking little interest . |
| 29 | We have also looked at the effect of volume on er mortality and major morbidity by comparing sites where fewer than one hundred cases were performed during the audit period , sites where more than one hundred cases were performed and we have also examined the effects upon mor mortality of both admission types and histology . |
| 30 | In the House of Commons he responded to Tony Benn 's comment that ‘ despair and a sense of social injustice have often lain at the roots of civil disturbance ’ , by suggesting that Mr Benn was selective about which laws people ought to obey and went on to provide another explanation : |