Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that it would at the very least be fun to fail again , however effortlessly , and we agreed to meet at a pub in Barnes on the following evening . |
| 2 | We 'd called at a house to install some concrete steps in the rear garden , and learnt that they had been burgled the previous night . |
| 3 | The method we adopt to arrive at an answer will be peculiar to the enquiry ( or discipline ) we are exploring . |
| 4 | Er er do you reckon we ought to have had , you kn you know we went over to gas , I toyed with the idea of fetching that do you know , you know when this house were built we went looking at a depot where they 've got all these grates and I took th funnily enough I took the measurements of the breast and er the only one we found was just that dead on look , right across |
| 5 | As we passed over the Thames we paused to look at a steamer unloading great slabs of white and brown marble . |
| 6 | Each campesino had been given instructions to always have ready 20 extra tortillas in case we had to leave at a moment 's notice , but even so , it was very hard . |
| 7 | We have arrived at a multilevel view of style , which is composed of elements of dualism and pluralism . |
| 8 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 9 | And so , after long and careful deliberation , we have arrived at a compromise between our official responsibilities and our natural wish to avoid hindering your father 's release in any way . |
| 10 | But I am plagued by the thought that we have arrived at a moment in history when this is about to be swept away . |
| 11 | It is true that , in all these cases , individualists will deny that we have arrived at an explanation . |
| 12 | The theory argues that we can not develop one universal scientific approach to create the perfect organisational structure , but rather we have to look at a number of variables and see how they interact with each other within particular organisations . |
| 13 | The case of leisure is an example of the general issue of ‘ observability ’ which we have discussed at a number of points in these Lectures . |
| 14 | ‘ Now we need to look at a map , ’ said Jason . |