Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He got sacked at Newcastle , but sometimes I think the game can be cruel by not giving you enough time to make your mark . ’ |
| 2 | He is the vital element , a striker with so much potential that , if Graham Taylor gives him the same encouragement he has received at Highbury , he will become Gary Lineker Mark II — only better . |
| 3 | She , too , has taught at Ayton and at Redhouse , Stockton , and is currently on supply at Brambles Farm , Middlesbrough . |
| 4 | Sally Grace , a dialogue coach who has taught at RADA , has been sent down to Eldorado 's £2 million set in southern Spain to help improve the actors ' diction . |
| 5 | ‘ Informants tell us that the enemy has halted at Annan town . |
| 6 | Clearly Fjortoft ( who has sucked at Swindon , not a single goal yet ! ) and maybe also Sorloth ( who as before mentioned was at a 14-day trial at Leeds and scored in all his test matches ) will be picked . |
| 7 | A week of expert talks , meetings and practical visits , based on the Institute of Sociology in the Kuskovo Palace complex in Moscow followed by a weekend in Leningrad sight-seeing and socialising included at £445 full board 19–30th March . |
| 8 | There is no doubt that Charles has done a great deal that his father has been proud of and has excelled at sports like polo that the Duke of Edinburgh played when he was younger , but the Prince never felt he was good enough . |
| 9 | To put down the open , running rugby style he has pursued at Harlequins and with London simply to necessity would be wrong , though , for attack as the best form of defence is where Best 's basic instincts lie . |
| 10 | After closing for the summer , Quiet Storm , the club for an older crowd ( in age but not attitude ) , has reopened at Ormond 's Yard in London on Fridays . |
| 11 | This upward movement in the social hierarchy by many working-class boys ( significantly none of the studies has looked at girls ) has not been achieved at the expense of the opportunities of children from middle-class backgrounds , but by an explosion in the number of middle-class jobs — or an expansion in the service class or the salariat . |
| 12 | Borough council chief executive Clive Owen has looked at unemployment statistics , business confidence and the housing market to determine the state of the town 's economy . |
| 13 | C.C. Valerie Way is the only person in school who has looked at home/school links . |
| 14 | Man , 23 , found hanged at play area |
| 15 | She has won at modelling , at running boutiques , at photography , she is winning at writing . |
| 16 | One such plant has operated at Laredello near Florence since 1905 while the largest present application is at Geysers Falls , California . |
| 17 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
| 18 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
| 19 | Of Moorcroft 's veterinary knowledge and skills , Smith has written at length . |
| 20 | The five-year-old daughter of Tina 's Pet has collected at Leicester , Beverley ( twice ) , Redcar and Doncaster since the start of the season and can improve her record still further by taking the £15,000 Crawley Warren Handicap . |
| 21 | May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on what he has done at Maastricht in limiting the powers of the Commission , about which my constituents have been concerned for a long time ? |
| 22 | ‘ Unfortunately , it 's just human nature that keepers mistakes are magnified and replayed over and over again — but I 'm always pleased when they bounce back , as Bobby has done at Blackburn . |
| 23 | Some groups have been buying into the new sites — as House of Fraser , which owns Harrods , has done at Meadowhall in Sheffield — but such an expensive strategy requires cool nerves in the present recession . |
| 24 | ‘ People should come and see the progress the club has made at Hundens Lane on Saturdays or at Rothmans on Sundays . ’ |
| 25 | Mrs Thatcher has talked at length and often about popular capitalism and consumer choice , and she has also said much about freedom and democracy . |
| 26 | ‘ They are great pals , the prince enjoys her company and he has found her of great help in the recent troubles he has had at home . |
| 27 | THE world 's first museum to the humble sardine has opened at Grau-du-Roi on the coast of southern France — and is hoping to be tightly packed with thousands of visitors . |
| 28 | A new VAT registration unit has opened at Newry in Northern Ireland . |
| 29 | A new resource centre for people with hearing problems has opened at Bootham House , Bootham , York . |
| 30 | To coincide with a survey of his New York Urban Portraits which has opened at Oxford 's Museum of Modern Art ( see p. 15 ) , Marlborough is exhibiting twenty-five oil paintings completed by Bill Jacklin on Coney Island during the last eighteen months ( to 29 November ) . |