Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] at [art] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Arranging to receive goods before they have been stolen does not amount to handling : Park ( 1988 ) 87 Cr App R 164 ( CA ) , because " guilty knowledge must exist at the time when the offence is committed " .
2 Members should look at the proposals extremely carefully .
3 Mind you must remember at the time when he was fighting to put it through , the bill through parliament , the whole B M A , British Medical Association were against him , to a man .
4 ‘ In about an hour and a quarter , the coach should stop at a signpost about five miles from here .
5 Must aim at the child personally .
6 They may feel at the time very sincere about their forgiveness but if that is all that happens the old feelings of misunderstanding and bitterness can swiftly recur .
7 Oh well I 'll look at the telly then .
8 Here we might look at the question why Gandhi should lay so much stress on the interrelation of Truth and ahi sā .
9 Maybe she 'll apply at the hospital then if she 's a qualified cook , they 're in and out of there like , like nobody 's business the cooks , they ca n't , well they do n't stay long
10 Between three and four hours later they 'll arrive at a point about thirty miles from here . ’
11 I 'll sit at the back probably , in the back corner there .
12 So what you 're saying is : ‘ Let's look at the case where someone says , quite simply , ‘ I 'm happy . ’
13 Let's look at the situations where you may use music as a producer of an audio visual work : this could be a wedding video , tape/slide programme or an all-singing , all-dancing drama/documentary for a broadcaster .
14 If that money has to come out of the existing budget , then we should , or the Chief Constable , or the Police Committee ought to look at the priorities again .
15 He looked could look at the children over
16 The inner side of the track was almost sheer at this point , brown broken rock glistening with water , and I could see at a glance where the rock had come from , a gaping hole oozing mud as though a giant molar had been extracted .
17 Another innovation made in 1932 was a huge 45-minute clock which Chapman had installed at the north end of the ground so that players and spectators could see at a glance how much time was left for play .
18 In retrospect , one can see far better than even he could see at the time how deeply the logic of the ‘ New Theology ’ , biblical and historical rather than scholastic , was bound to challenge the whole shape of the contemporary Church and the way it perceived orthodoxy .
19 Powell felt both clubs were impetuous buys which Virgin could ill-afford at a time when it was struggling out of recession .
20 Sometimes a more matronly dame may preside at a table whereon is a large basin of curds , jugs of cream , a number of strong dessert-plates and horn spoons , and a goodly array of oaten cakes ; so you may thus have curds and cream in the land of brown heath — and if lovely scenery lends a zest to wholesome fare , you should not fail to patronize this vendor of good things .
21 At Tangier , he would stay at an hotel nearby . ’
22 There was some slight discussion whether the British should keep Canada or should choose the large French sugar islands like Martinique and Guadeloupe ; very few politicians close to the centre of power thought of giving Canada back to France , but the issue underlined the fact that Canada was unlikely to provide much revenue for the British treasury directly , and certainly would not provide the amount of revenue that sugar for re-export would give at a time when Britain used for consumption or for manufacture all that her West Indian islands could produce .
23 She would look at the rest later .
24 But Dave Waddington , chairman of the rugby club , said tonight 's executive committee meeting would look at the issue carefully .
25 Surely , she mused , it had n't been raining long enough for the water levels to rise that far , and even though the middle of the week had proved consistently wet she felt confident she would arrive at the cottage long before the possibility became a reality .
26 Hotel staff said the Russian deputy premier Boris Fyodorov would arrive at the talks today .
27 FOR most of this year , Lee Sharpe has wondered if he would play at the top again .
28 The move , expected to form part of the imminent white paper on the coal industry , would come at a time when the US , Japan and Germany are pumping greater resources into clean coal research .
29 The forward contract would mature at the time when it was proposed to change back into sterling from lire .
30 ( b ) That there is no satisfactory address for serving the summons either because he will not give an address , or it is doubtful if he will remain at the address long enough to accept service of the summons or is unable to furnish the name of anyone who would accept service on his behalf , e.g. social worker .
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