Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at some " in BNC.
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| 1 | No matter where you finally wind up in the advertising business , you will want to work at some stage in an agency to gain real insight into advertising and acquire first-rate skills ( and , hopefully , reputation ) that puts wheels under your career . |
| 2 | They passed , apparently oblivious , intent only on their own business ; but hardly a soul in the village failed to pass at some time during that day , and not one missed a detail of what was there to be seen . |
| 3 | They have two natural gaits the gentle , lolloping , forward movement of the warren on a summer evening and the lightning dash for cover that every human has seen at some time or other . |
| 4 | Now I want to look at some properties . |
| 5 | I want to look at some general features of the 28 projects that we are studying . |
| 6 | Erm do n't know if you want to look at some on the paper , have a look at some in the paper and see how you do on those . |
| 7 | I hesitated for a moment on the stairs , turned round and tried to look at some of them , to see if there was a familiar face , a suspicious or suspecting face , a face I could place , a face that could … |
| 8 | Avoid specimens that are swimming off the aquarium bottom as this is a sign of distress and usually means an imbalance of water has occurred at some stage of the export/importation process . |
| 9 | Because star formation and hence the formation of neutron stars by supernova collapse in NGC6342 ceased long ago , the apparent youth of the pulsar suggests that a major event has occurred at some time during the last 10Myr . |
| 10 | It 's what everyone has to do at some time — it 's called taking responsibility for yourself . |
| 11 | Some 45 per cent of British households drink water that has passed at some stage through lead pipes . |
| 12 | But it has jibbed at some of the rents demanded . |
| 13 | At recent rates about 80 per cent of married women can expect to work at some time in their married lifetime ( Martin and Roberts 1984 ) . |
| 14 | I hang around for a bit , pretending to look at some writing on the board . |
| 15 | Corporate bodies are in continuing tension with legality , seeking to arrive at some accommodation with attempts to regulate their own affairs and to exploit its possibilities for defending or advancing their own interests against rivals . |
| 16 | you know , if you sh given them a slide show that 's all very well but , they may well want to look at some of the pictures for longer . |
| 17 | It was situated close to the United Nations headquarters as well as being only three blocks away from the African American Institute which Mobuto had requested to see at some point during his visit . |
| 18 | You may not yourself be in the habit of taking this small precaution to avoid knocking at some highly inappropriate moment , but I always have been and can vouch that it is common practice amongst many professionals . |
| 19 | A new relationship has begun , with the most momentous consequences for life , and we are going to look at some of those consequences soon . |
| 20 | I am going to look at some of the major female characters in the books — Mrs. Proudie , who is in both , though in a less prominent position in the second , Madeline Vesey Neroni , from ‘ Barchester Towers ’ , and Mrs. Crawley , from ‘ The Last Chronicle of Barset ’ . |
| 21 | In this chapter , I should like to look at some of the ‘ social meanings ’ we give to arts and science today . |
| 22 | In the second part we begin to look at some of the arguments which have been developed about the possible effects of new technology on the kinds of jobs available in the future . |
| 23 | Mainly she resisted the urge in case Suzie should slip past unnoticed , although once or twice she was drawn to pause at some unusual display , particularly of traditional Danish knitwear or shops specialising in the typical and beautiful amber jewellery for which the country was famed . |
| 24 | The damage cost curve is shown starting at some low value at a small or zero concentration — and increasing rapidly at high concentrations . |
| 25 | Councillors on authorities other than education authorities may be invited to participate at some level in educational administration and in the case of primary schools , district and parish councils may have rights in respect of appointing governors . |
| 26 | The hearings provide an invaluable snapshot of the state of the arguments about nuclear power as the 1990s open and I shall return to look at some of these , especially where new information came to light . |
| 27 | If , therefore , 17 September 680 fell in Aethelred 's sixth year , Aethelred began to reign at some point after 17 September 674 and before the anniversary of that date in 675 . |
| 28 | Marius Steen might be out too , but he was bound to return at some stage , and the more Charles thought about the urgency of the situation , the more he was determined to meet the man . |
| 29 | Rather , they recognise that such ‘ nonstandard dialects are highly structured systems ’ and that ‘ the adult or child who uses these rules must have formed at some level of psychological organisation clear concepts of ‘ tense marker ’ , ‘ verb phrase ’ , ‘ rule ordering ’ , ‘ sentence embedding ’ , ‘ pronoun ’ and many other grammatical categories which are essential parts of any logical system ’ ( ibid. p. 45 ) . |
| 30 | Having looked at some of the reasons why God is thought of in personal terms , it is as well to remind ourselves of some of the dangers of doing so . |