Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NOW YOU 'VE stopped laughing at the idea of Kevin Costner in tights , you can have a chuckle at the cast rumoured to be lined up for his Robin Hood movie Prince Of Thieves — Danny DeVito ( above ) as Friar Tuck , either Patsy Kensit , Emily Lloyd or Imogen Stubbs as Maid Marian and as Robin 's big buddy Little John , John Goodman , who is reported to have been paid $750,000 just to stay interested in playing Fred Flintstone while the producers look for a script |
| 2 | What they do , I mean just play a game , it 's just a ga it 's a it 's a game , like sort of Simon says , try and catch them out in things , you 'll say right , now you 've got to point at a window , say , and then you have to point at , and you can get them all doing it , you |
| 3 | Let's go and have coffee first , and then I 've got to call at the bank to get some cash , and dump that package , before we start shopping . ’ |
| 4 | We 've got to sit at the back |
| 5 | Although it 's two years later they 've got to resell at the price that er it 's been discounted more or less . |
| 6 | right , now what you 've got to judge at the end of the day , now lets say for instance that you 've put in six lines six lines , right and you only wanted to use two of them all you 've got a number for is the rental charge is n't it ? |
| 7 | And so that the village benefits from the wood in some way , erm like there 's a teak plantation they 've got going at the moment , and in ten years time , the teak will be used to carry electricity , so that the village can have some electricity as well , I mean it 's to do with giving the village something as well as trying to help the environment . |
| 8 | You 've got to survive at the end of the day . |
| 9 | We 've got to look at the recession that we are in . |
| 10 | Before you really get down to doing anything , you 've got to look at the problem , and , and really sort of try and analyse what is going on , and what bit of the problem are you going to work on . |
| 11 | erm Nonetheless , while we want to carry on supporting that , we 've also got to think , as Jack said , erm of as we enter the next century what is going to be right for our children , and we know that in many ways we have failed them and we know that we are producing many children who have n't had the training and the education that 's going to be necessary for us to be erm economically competent in the future , so we 've got to look at the whole of our educational provision , and frankly I think opting out was erm a sort of unnecessary blip on all of this that is n't really terribly important in the whole issue of how the children in this country should be educated . |
| 12 | No but you see , you 've got to look at the type of , we look at the type of illnesses that people suffer from in a minute , and sort of , you know , a day here , a week there , somebody has a month somewhere else . |
| 13 | It 's a bit like what we 've been doing before where you 've got to look at the money . |
| 14 | They 've continued to dig at the back of a house in Swindons Old Town . |
| 15 | In Barbados ( and other places such as Jamaica and Antigua ) , the wickets are fast and so the bowlers have traditionally bowled fast , while the batsmen have looked to attack at every opportunity , to hit the ball as hard and as gleefully as possible . |
| 16 | Solent Stars , last in the Carlsberg League but unhappy with its organisation , have decided to withdraw at the end of the season . |
| 17 | In that context I have had to look at the definition of a specific issue order which is contained in section 8(1) of the Act and I know , from talking to those who have been concerned with this Act and are familiar with it , that they have no doubt at all as to what that definition means . |
| 18 | A hundred and thirty staff at a factory destroyed by fire have volunteered to work at the company 's plant in France . |
| 19 | Over the past 18 months the MCofS have attempted to arrive at the compromise statement on the contentious issue of bolting in Scotland . |
| 20 | I have continued to stay at the Abbey of Holy Rood involved in the matter assigned to me . |
| 21 | And even in this conformity the detectives are moving away from the uniform policeman 's concept of correct dress , for they are wearing ‘ civvy ’ clothing like those despised outsiders they have learned to keep at a distance . |
| 22 | They include the characteristics , background and attitudes of the people involved , the effects of socialization in the tenure type and the ways in which successive post-war governments and parties have encouraged owning at the expense of renting . |
| 23 | They have been created because we have chosen to look at a situation in a certain way or we have chosen to treat as a problem something which is merely a change . |
| 24 | For my GCSE Open Study I have chosen to look at the theme of obsessional love in ‘ The Collector ’ by John Fowles and ‘ The Great Gatsby ’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald . |