Example sentences of "[verb] an [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps we can now hazard an attempt at defining ‘ a good reader ’ . |
| 2 | Actors are very emotional people who get caught up in their own make-believe — I would n't trust an actor at all ! ’ |
| 3 | Why do you need an army at all ? |
| 4 | The component parts of the multiplier have been agreed as four years for the period up to the age of nineteen when he leaves school and thirteen years thereafter Mrs doctor and Mr Paul 's headmaster agree that Paul needs an enabler at school during school hours , that is classroom hours , an enabler is in effect a classroom assistant who works with him on a one to one basis to ensure that he can participate in lessons . |
| 5 | Jennifer Owen argues convincingly that this amounts to a very significant area of habitat , she shows clearly and simply how it may be improved , and for the dedicated wildlife gardener she says enough to encourage an attempt at recording . |
| 6 | This is tantamount to becoming an expert at walking along the street lifting your knees as high as your chin — novel but , as we discover as an infant , tiring and unnecessary ! |
| 7 | ‘ I suggest an evening at 1997 , dancing the night away ! ’ |
| 8 | A test pilot crashed an Airbus at a French air show in 1988 . |
| 9 | The last accompanies an exhibition at the Accademia Italiana in London ( 8 January to 7 February 1993 ) and completely documents Ruskin 's seven Tuscan visits made between 1840 and 1882 . |
| 10 | Accompanies an exhibition at Norwich Castle to 29 November 1992 . |
| 11 | Another , who has problems in understanding speech as well as problems in understanding print , has an impairment at the semantic level . |
| 12 | Yeah , she needs a sleep , she 's shattered , she usually has an hour at least in the morning and another hour in the afternoon . |
| 13 | In other words , both the land is cheap if it is realised and secondly , already the British Library has an asset at Exhibition Road which can be used to defray the cost of some of the building . |
| 14 | If one has an account at Harrods , for example , and does not pay one 's bill by a certain date , a mandatory rate of interest is immediately added to the total . |
| 15 | Yet this structuring of discourse along the patterns of dialogue has an effect at the most detailed , grammatical level . |
| 16 | As many as one person in 10 has an ulcer at some time in their lives — mostly men and mostly in early middle age . |
| 17 | The settlor has an overdraft at X bank plc of £50,000 . |
| 18 | The ellipsoidal egg of S. trachea has an operculum at both ends ( Fig. 36 ) . |
| 19 | Hartley Green , the elder , is about to establish an academy at Manchester , and might find employment for his Brother , but he wishes rather to make his own way . |
| 20 | As at Hamilton Terrace , Minton created an ambience at Allen Street that attracted visitors . |
| 21 | Cohn 's article described how hard-pressed Brooklyn kids found their thrills and created an escape at weekend discos . |
| 22 | Whether you do n't know an opera at all or whether it is an old friend , you will still enjoy the show all the more if you have been to the pre-performance talk . |
| 23 | The age of organ-building goes back at least to Louis the Pious , for whom a Venetian priest called George built an organ at Aachen in 826 , and it is reflected in the lively illustrations of organs in the Utrecht Psalter , a Reims manuscript of about 830 . |
| 24 | The area surrounding Monboddo must have contained an aerodrome at some stage , perhaps during wartime , as evidenced in a few remaining Nissen huts , now filled with old packing cases and pallets , and undistinguished , domestic timber artefacts of all sorts . |
| 25 | But they are gaining an inch at a time , thought Floy , in horror ; they are stretching muscle and flesh . |
| 26 | He also holds an engagement at Sandown on Friday but will only travel to Esher in the event of Chepstow — where it continues to rain heavily — being abandoned . |
| 27 | John Wesley and his close associate John Berridge ( 1716–93 ) , the Rector of Everton , had both been addicted to this practice ; both had used it to obtain an answer at a particular time to the knotty question whether to get married . |
| 28 | Anne was on night shift , Maureen was now driving an ambulance at night , and Pat was using his skill as a builder to rescue people from bombed houses . |
| 29 | She was still working in the wool shop by day and driving an ambulance at night . |
| 30 | The Soviet Union had no equivalent forward bases for strategic deterrence or any other purpose until the Cuban revolution provided an opportunity at the beginning of the 1960s . |