Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking in a debate on the food question , J. R. Clynes , Minister of Food in the Coalition Government , used the apparent progress on the international front to preach patience at home : |
| 2 | David Murray became chairman at Ibrox in 1988 and , asked about the Liverpool manager 's record in the transfer market , said : ‘ Sure Graeme has spent a lot of cash but he 's sold well as well . |
| 3 | I made camp at sunset , and then cooked , wrote letters , and did my chores after dark . |
| 4 | Drama provides another major resource in overcoming passivity , in stimulating children to become actively involved in thinking about language , and in helping them to enjoy literature at school so that they will continue to read and to act and to attend theatrical performances for the rest of their lives . |
| 5 | AS SOME 7,000 exhausted but happy East Germans arrived in West Germany on special trains early yesterday , hundreds who missed the trains joined the queue to go west at embassies in Prague and Warsaw . |
| 6 | " Then they have to go to the Chinese to borrow money at highwaymen 's rates . |
| 7 | For l/d = 540 , the range has been observed to start at a Reynolds number ( based on a velocity averaged not only over a cross-section but also over a cycle of the pulsation ) of about 4700 ; the intermittency factor at the outlet became unity at Re = 5900 . |
| 8 | An army spokesman quoted by Agence France-Presse news agency said that soldiers had been attacked while pitching camp at Kaguitt . |
| 9 | Though he was careful to say that the solution was not to ‘ throw money at problems ’ , Clinton is recycling such old Great Society approaches as job-training , education programmes and the like , all part of the package that enabled the Democrats in the sixties to shirk what the party advocated in 1946 , namely a full employment act . |
| 10 | Labour would throw money at industry . |
| 11 | Revolutionary fervour produced discontent at home , and there were frequent uprisings and riots . |
| 12 | She said it the way judges passed sentence at Nuremberg . |
| 13 | Nun decided that Nut , the sky goddess , in the shape of a cow , should take Re and carry him above the earth , although this meant that he was seen only in the day and the earth became dark at night . |
| 14 | After leaving the Conservatoire he became organist at Sainte-Trinité in Paris , a post he held for over 40 years . |
| 15 | It is better to cut the corner , maintaining rhythm at jumps and then gradually edge towards the fearsome object bit by bit . |
| 16 | The A.86 , widened and improved , turns north-east at Tulloch and for ten miles has the waters of Loch Moy and Loch Laggan alongside , ultimately arriving in the Spey valley . |
| 17 | With the main outage completed and the holiday season pressure easing , TOP Team activity is gathering momentum at Torness after a couple of months in the doldrums , writes Executive Support Manager Mervyn Jenkins . |
| 18 | He carried on ripping and tearing at his legs relentlessly and with sickening ferocity , even drawing blood at times . |
| 19 | The children must have found the silence or edifying talk at table somewhat tedious , as also the prohibitions on all dancing , dicing and wrestling . |
| 20 | Sheila Wennington , 36 , of Tweed Place , Darlington , yesterday admitted theft at Darlington Magistrates ' Court . |
| 21 | Throughout those years there was a constant building and re-building programme at Howard . |
| 22 | A jury decided Pryse-Jones was unfit to stand trial at court because of his mental illness . |
| 23 | Two men have been charged in connection with the accident and are due to stand trial at Gloucester Crown Court . |
| 24 | But the court accepted the prosecution 's argument that there was a case to answer and committed Coun Garvey to stand trial at Teesside Crown Court . |
| 25 | Me being at work causes friction at home . |
| 26 | At 0856:58 the crew reported level at 2,500ft , followed 44 sec later by a position report over the MN beacon . |
| 27 | Below that , it sounds more like a traditional diesel , and it does lack response at times , but it only takes a bit of getting used to . |
| 28 | Mrs Annie Bason , although sixty years of age , carries out her duties as stationmaster , porter and booking clerk at Eaton , Shropshire , on the Craven Arms to Bishop 's Castle railway . |
| 29 | When John Wesley visited the county in 1773 he found support at Rye , as might have been expected , but little elsewhere : the locals were too fond of the smuggling and intemperance he preached so strongly against . |
| 30 | Scattered all over his territories were 738,000 Japanese ; in theory a defeated army but in most cases still armed and either potentially dangerous or the only organized force capable of keeping chaos at bay . |