Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | There she would stay for up an hour in shirt-sleeves in the pitch-dark , sometimes in the snow , while the bewildered family shivered inside . |
| 2 | ‘ This funicular is looked after by an Englishman . |
| 3 | As her natural mother had been unable to care for her , she had been taken in and looked after by an uncle and aunt . |
| 4 | Looked after by an English nanny , he had frequently spoken English at home with his parents . |
| 5 | Keeping track of young people is particularly difficult when they are being looked after by an SSD . |
| 6 | The work done by the tides may be looked upon as an energy subsidy ( see p 116 ) . |
| 7 | Too often the clinical teacher is looked upon as an interfering and critical representative of the school of nursing - and as one who takes three hours to teach a student how to take a blood pressure ! |
| 8 | A descent upon England was long looked upon as an impracticable chimera in face of the countless and invincible naval forces that encircle this island-empire with a line of floating citadels , collected or dispersed at will at any threatened points around the coast … |
| 9 | A man or woman with bow legs is looked upon as an ugly person . |
| 10 | Examination questions are unreal and unrelated to life , and are looked upon as an unwelcome imposition . |
| 11 | But there are things that we 're not avail er , we 're not aware of and I 'm looked on as something of an expert , so God help those people who come and ask me er , what there is , what forms they should use and what is available on the , in the organization , if I 'm looked upon as an expert . |
| 12 | In fact , the ENS can be looked upon as an amplification system for the inflammatory response . |
| 13 | Mhm do you have do you have a lo I mean is it is it easy to get to in touch say you want to in an emergency , to get in touch with anyone phone , is it is it easy to get to a phone ? |
| 14 | The standard set of Spectrum keys have been added to in an intelligent way too . |
| 15 | In ( 100b ) however " it seems that the woman 's intelligence is attested to by an outside source . |
| 16 | In case of any doubt , locate it by a line from Mizar in the Great Bear through Polaris , and prolonged ; Cassiopeia lies at about an equal distance beyond Polaris , so that when the Bear is low down Cassiopeia is high up , and vice versa . |
| 17 | The erstwhile bandido wore a bloody nose which he was dabbing at with an oversized tartan handkerchief . |
| 18 | Can the reports of these commissions and committees be looked at as an aid to construction ? |
| 19 | The emergence of three youngsters from Ibrox , Murray , Hagen and Pressley , could be looked at as an unusual bonus but that initial impression may not necessarily be the correct one . |
| 20 | These topics are often looked at in an historical context : changes in the patterning of family life with industrialization and urbanization are examined . |
| 21 | So , we 're looked at in an ambivalent way . |
| 22 | The answer is never one the minimum we 've come across in an organization is two the typical is five to ten and in some organizations it 's going on fifteen . |
| 23 | She was shocked to the very roots of her being by what she could only think of as an outrage ; a violation of her person . |
| 24 | ‘ In order to get that Job , Scott , you have to clarify one thing in your mind — a picture of what they 're looking for as an anchorman . ’ |
| 25 | I can recommend any family will find what they are looking for at an HCI Club . |
| 26 | And what else was Kerrang looking for in an ideal editor ? |
| 27 | IN the midst of a defeat from the world champions , Andy Roxburgh may have found the vindication he was looking for in an exercise that was thought to be without relevance for Scotland . |
| 28 | However , whereas for the 55–59 age-group the fall in unemployment was compensated for by an increase in employment , as well as in sickness and disability , for the 60–64 age-group early retirement increased more substantially than employment . |
| 29 | For example , the declining firm needs an annual dividend yield of 20 per cent to compensate for the capital loss of 5 per cent per annum , whereas the supernormal growth firm has a dividend yield of only 2.66 per cent , but this is compensated for by an average annual growth in the share price of 12.34 per cent . |
| 30 | This inertia in accepting the need for change was , however , amply compensated for by an extremely effective programme of design , the setting up of new manufacturing facilities and by the retraining of assembly workers to handle the new electronic technology . |