Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were also powerfully promoted by domestic service at a time when even the meanest clerk expected to employ at least a resident maid-of-all-work . |
| 2 | The Scotsman reported on I September that " members of the Women Compositors " , Readers " and Monotype Operators " Union intend to remain at work in the event of a strike " . |
| 3 | One afternoon a flying fortress which had come off worse on the mission over Germany tried to land at Walsall , which was much too small to take an aircraft of this size , and the girl in the control box had to find , fire a warning vary light and radio to send him off to Castle Bromwich which was much bigger in those days er it was an airport to take an aircraft the size of the Flying Fortress that 's about it up until here I 've written |
| 4 | Suppose we get 204 , giving herd B ; the second of the systematic sample will be 204 + 293 = 497 which gives herd F. By this means we always obtain two different primaries unless one of the primaries accounts for more than half the secondaries , in which case that primary has to appear at least once . |
| 5 | ‘ He is a world class player with all the attributes a striker needs to play at the top , ’ added Allison . |
| 6 | A weekly routine of inspection has to begin at about the end of February . |
| 7 | ‘ What happened , ’ says an attendant parent , ‘ is that our defence stopped to look at the train . |
| 8 | It is , of course , a PWR that the Central Electricity Generating Board wants to build at Sizewell in Suffolk . |
| 9 | For now the point is that the drafter needs to know at the outset whether any of the business 's customers will fall within the definition of " consumer " : if so , care must be taken in drafting clauses excluding or limiting liability . |
| 10 | ‘ It may be that Parliament has to look at this issue of excluding people from property when they 've got property rights , ’ he said . |
| 11 | A turning point may be reached if income starts to rise at a decreasing rate ; investment will start to fall and as soon as the fall in investment exceeds the rise in consumption , income will start to fall . |
| 12 | Vernon , 18 , hero of non-League Bath City 's FA Cup win over Cardiff , is on trial with Saints and manager Ian Branfoot wants to look at him in a reserve game . |
| 13 | She shot him a look designed to kill at fifty feet , but he only raised one eyebrow in mute enquiry . |
| 14 | None of the fathers ' job descriptions given on the birth certificate referred to work at a nuclear establishment . |
| 15 | It all began in the early hours when it 's alleged the car failed to stop at a police check and sped off through the city centre and out along the Botley Road . |
| 16 | They took it as a snub that Down failed to field at anything approaching full strength and now want to show that they are a match for the real thing . |
| 17 | We were told that after 1948 the revenue sought to tax at least two categories of employees in receipt of in-house benefits . |
| 18 | The majority of information on coffin types comes as a result of the recent introduction of funerary studies in archaeology and vault examinations — much from work carried out in the 1980s at such places as Christchurch , Spitalfields , at Hinton St George , Somerset , and Withyham , Sussex — where opportunities arose to study at first hand coffins dating from the sixteenth century to the present day . |
| 19 | The work was actually carried out in 1971–72 , although the lease did not take effect until February 1974 just two months before the old county borough ceased to exist at the time of local government reorganisation . |
| 20 | Marie turns to look at me , and I can just see the light shining off her eyes . |
| 21 | Under the terms of the agreement , representatives from these five countries would help oversee the movement of millions of tonnes of grain and other food aid expected to arrive at South African ports . |
| 22 | To set the ticket price , the agent has to look at what is happening in the industry , what an average ticket price is , and what the touring artist is worth as an attraction . |
| 23 | An officer dealing with a straightforward case of theft has to complete at least twenty documents as well as laboriously transcribe tapes of interviews . |
| 24 | For more weeks than I care to remember I have been working on a Panorama programme designed to look at the future of the Tory Party , even beyond Thatcherism . |
| 25 | They looked red and sore and his mouth seemed to droop at the corners . |
| 26 | The black glittering eyes seemed to tear at her like scissors . |
| 27 | The words seemed to jump at her : |
| 28 | Investigations are continuing to discover how the two cars came to collide at the Great Stainton crossroads on the narrow road . |
| 29 | Our company is exchanging greetings with the young soldiers when suddenly a white car refuses to stop at the next checkpoint up the street — braking only slightly and seeking to swerve past the two soldiers . |
| 30 | That night Kalchu 's two brothers came to look at Sigarup , and the three men and Chola sat around the fire discussing in low worried voices what they were going to do . |