Example sentences of "[verb] at one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent that Sunday at Littlehampton ; on the Monday I dined at one of George 's clubs — ’ |
| 2 | She turned round to sec if he was laughing at one of the postcards but he was laughing at her . |
| 3 | Its central way-station was located at one of the most remote places in the British empire ; Alice Springs . |
| 4 | A shift at one of the company 's two neighbouring plants had been axed and staff levels on a shift at the other had been cut , he said . |
| 5 | We stopped at one of his regular suppliers and cadged a few sea urchins , then the knife to eat them with . |
| 6 | I recall her pacing the sitting-room while I am doing my homework , pausing every so often to stand at one of the windows and look down into the busy street below . |
| 7 | IT really was not the sort of behaviour expected at one of England 's oldest golf clubs . |
| 8 | She had only to hide at one of these places and wait , and they would all come along sooner or later . |
| 9 | We 've already looked at one of them , briefly . |
| 10 | ‘ They'se stayin' at one of the tied cottages at Hillbrook Farm and they has to earn their keep . |
| 11 | The mother shouted at one of the boys and he went back to sit in the small lorry . |
| 12 | CARING : Abdul Sattar Edhi with a girl living at one of his homes |
| 13 | CARING : Abdul Sattar Edhi with a girl living at one of his homes |
| 14 | It occurred to her suddenly that she had rarely enjoyed herself so much as she was now doing , seated in Dr Neil 's kitchen , dressed like a skivvy and eating a huge meal , rather than languidly nibbling at it , as she would have done at one of Aunt Nella 's ‘ At Homes ’ . |
| 15 | Libby had been heaving and pushing at one of the logs , covered with rotten bark that peeled off , revealing orange insect eggs and small white channels like blood vessels covering the surface . |
| 16 | If anything unusual occurs at one of these phases a fixation at the relevant phase occurs . |
| 17 | Next to him , his back to the gramophone , his friend Danny was looking at one of the Meccano magazines he had been given . |
| 18 | Or you would n't ask Van Gogh to add more detail to a picture after looking at one of his works of art would you ? ’ |
| 19 | Tom O'Neill was in the outer office looking at one of the pictures that lines the walls — Rena , Hugo 's favourite house model , wearing a loose cut trench coat over a tailored shirt and doe-skin pants . |
| 20 | It was like looking at one of those pictures in a children 's book in which there was a glaringly obvious deliberate mistake . |
| 21 | We begin by looking at one of the seminal theories of soccer spectator disorder , the Marxist approach of Ian Taylor . |
| 22 | We can consider these problems and get a sense of how online multimedia might work in practice by looking at one of the first projects to attempt to offer multimedia online database services . |
| 23 | The human had been looking at one of those big sheets of paper … |
| 24 | Matthew had been in the stables late , looking at one of his mares who was about to foal . |
| 25 | He was a chemist himself , or a physicist , working on similar sorts of problems , and I wrote to him and said was he interested in looking at one of my molecules , and he wrote back and said he was very interested because it was , in fact , as I 'd thought , a rather intriguing next step in our understanding and we got together with the Canadian group in Ottowa to try and set up a programme for observing these particular types of molecule in interstellar space . |
| 26 | The other one erm is within the university itself because we do have a support organisation here for teaching within the university , and it is possible for groups of teachers in any part of the university to ask for some help and support in looking at one of the courses they 're involved in teaching . |
| 27 | BARNHAM HALL was built at one of the most confusing periods of domestic architecture in England . |
| 28 | The Prince smiled , as if to soften his sartorial orders , then gestured at one of his Dutch aides . |
| 29 | The boy with the vacant chair then winks at one of the girls who then tries to get to the other boy without her partner noticing . |
| 30 | It had been made at one of those long , heart-searching breakfast conversations over pancakes and imported Vermont maple syrup . |