Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spent the time thinking about that place in Earl 's Court Square , where screenplay writers read from their screenplays and drank biting Spanish red wine and got stared at by tousled girls who wore overcoats and no make-up and blinked incessantly or not at all . |
| 2 | Cell sap normally starts to freeze at about -3°C , and ice forming within the cells causes fatal damage to plant tissues . |
| 3 | Right , so that 's all we want to look at with regards learning styles I think the key thing to remember is that we must n't fall into the trap , because it 's our learning style if we actually put together our training which reflects our style . |
| 4 | One of the other the other things that we will erm be taking responsibility for is , is something called the Front Line Review which I want to come back too , because it 's something that will interest you as a group erm , but that 's basically again a Council learn initiative , where the Council 's want to look at over the next month all of the front line services we provide , the , the services that you come into contact with on a day to day erm level and look at , you know , are we providing a service as you want , are we providing them efficiently , how would you like to see them better provided . |
| 5 | So but nevertheless we will look at a little bit at those peripheral things , but we 're going to concentrate mainly on the design and on the delivery of a presentation so that 's what we want to what we want to look at over the next two days . |
| 6 | I hope that on that basis , first of all , that you agree with the views that we expressed in anticipation of your view , and secondly , erm , that we really do need to look at through you , these sort of aspects of pension management on behalf of the County Council . |
| 7 | If you find in the longer run that the process of " being in love " stops you functioning properly ( i.e. getting your college work done ) that too is something you might need to look at with some skilled help ( i.e. a skilled counsellor ) . |
| 8 | Erm by including conversions this time round I do n't see there 's any particular difference , we are giving the district a global figure for their districts , which they will then need to look at in the light of local circumstances . |
| 9 | But clear declines in infant mortality in Britain and in Belgium only become apparent some time after the beginning of the fertility decline , and in France mortality and fertility declines begin at about the same time . |
| 10 | The purchase of UK company securities hit a low point in 1984 but has run at about 3.5bn for most of the 1980s . |
| 11 | What I want to get at through these quicksand-like words is how Coward shared and contributed to making the male homosexual structure of feeling that I and many other contemporary gay men find in his writing . |
| 12 | A weekly routine of inspection has to begin at about the end of February . |
| 13 | ‘ About the interview … ’ she attempted — and got snarled at for her trouble . |
| 14 | unless we can divert money from other sources , but that 's erm , well I mean that 's the reality behind fifteen years of fairly steady growth , and I mean looking at at plateauing out , I think . |
| 15 | Newman gave Tweed the name of the hotel he 'd stayed at during his earlier visit , said yes , he was phoning from a call box when Tweed posed the question . |
| 16 | Schellenberg held up a piece of paper which was actually some stationery from the hotel he 'd stayed at in Vienna the previous week . |
| 17 | I tried to muster the arguments I 'd arrived at with Brian nearly four years earlier , in the autumn of 1986 , after having heard Jacobsen making a tape . |
| 18 | I 'd worked at for 18 years and often came to the Terminal to check the weigh-bridge . |
| 19 | I think it was his grandfather 's name that he 'd er , he 'd acquired at at that at that time . |
| 20 | That 's probably all we would want to look at for the time being . |
| 21 | You might have ageing parents who you support and god knows how much other outgoings which are hidden and then you have to go down that road and say that you 're going to look at at financial status you 're going to have to say and exactly what are all of your outgoings in and now down going to get real unpleasant intrusion into people 's business . |
| 22 | The cheetah maintains its status as the world 's fastest animal ( 110 km/h ) and the prong-horn antelope of the North American plains the fastest herbivore ( 100 km/h ) but , overall , predatory carnivores and their herbivore prey seem to run at about the same speed . |
| 23 | In the cell he shouted a bit to bring them back , but only got shouted at in his turn by two drunken fellow inmates . |
| 24 | ‘ Have you ever been in a group and somebody gets pointed at with that awful expression : ‘ She does very well for 79 . ’ |
| 25 | It 's probably because I was getting looked at by erm a ginger haired boy |
| 26 | We had a tape of African music on and we began dancing at about midnight . |
| 27 | Fred was still concentrated on his clasp instead of his balance , and getting sworn at for it . |
| 28 | This is why , coming home with the supermarket bags , we get barked at by second-assistant-directors and told to keep quiet and keep out of sight . |
| 29 | But since I am not real and they are not real you might as well stop reading at about this point . |
| 30 | In Britain , this began to happen at about the same time as the emergence of positivist criminology — though , again , this is not to suggest any simple causal relation , in either direction ( see Garland , 1985b ) . |