Example sentences of "a [noun sg] at [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I can take some of these back to the office and have a look at them under the funny lights — ultra-violet , infra-red — to see if anything shows up . |
| 2 | During local soaring , select good-looking fields , and then go and have a look at them after the flight to see what they are really like . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll get our family doctor to take a look at her in the morning . |
| 4 | mm , erm , and he wh you know he is thinking well is this , is that the reason erm , so er , I do n't know , you know , er , I , I think perhaps it 's worth looking at , perhaps we can all thing about it and have a look at it at the A G M. |
| 5 | So I had a look at it from the outside and I changed my original opinion . |
| 6 | Am I being told that the law of England is so deficient that , if one assaults a person by driving a car at them to the danger of that person 's life or property — whether or not one damages either — that is not a crime known to the common law of England , and would it not attract the most condign penalties ? |
| 7 | Lineker says : ‘ It really started , if Graham 's honest , when he had a dig at me about the Republic of Ireland game at Wembley , when I did a piece with one of the newspapers saying I was a bit tired . |
| 8 | ‘ Graham was not happy about that and had a dig at me in the press . |
| 9 | The barmaid took a swing at him with the dreaded spatula . |
| 10 | ‘ You could n't have mentioned this when I took a shot at him in the alleyway . ’ |
| 11 | And Wright , whose misery over the weekend was compounded when he wasted a glorious chance to rescue a point for Arsenal , added : ‘ Some people are just having a go at me for the sake of it and it 's beginning to get to me . ’ |
| 12 | I think it 's a terribly difficult thing to do , but I 'd like to have a go at it in the following way , by saying that somebody is a case of sexual harassment has occurred when the behaviour of one person makes another person uncomfortable in such a way that that person , the person who 's uncomfortable , becomes overly conscious of their gender or sexual characteristics . |