Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [vb infin] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goody , however , claims that if the processes of political scepticism do occur at all in non-literate societies , they must always be limited and individual . |
| 2 | What this suggests is that despite valid criticism of their pretensions as theoretical perspectives , the notion of both a dominant ideology and a false consciousness do have at least some place in a theory of ideology . |
| 3 | If we now turn our attention to the hero-literature of ancient Greece , it is notable that just about every prominent hero does battle at one time or another , and sometimes repeatedly , with Amazon women . |
| 4 | Nineteen eighty nine edition which is the latest existing in Your Lordship 's House and I found that that edition did reveal at what had happened since to subsec to Sections Two and Three . |
| 5 | An original toilet did exist at Stanley Racing which was not suitable for disabled people . |
| 6 | In one area Tanucci did aim at far-reaching change . |
| 7 | erm Helium does liquify at a much lower temperature than any other element and in fact it was not until erm this century that erm helium was finally liquified . |
| 8 | As David Aers has skilfully shown , the merchant , the monk and the very language of the Shipman 's Tale do co-act at a general level to show a society where spiritual growth has been stunted , or rather deformed and directed away from an ideal moral and spiritual state . |
| 9 | However , there is no denying that the picture quality does suffer at these low levels : the colours become increasingly weak and washed-out looking , and the sharpness of the definition falls off because the lens is having to work at its maximum aperture . |
| 10 | The famous German raid on Coventry on the night of 14 November 1940 brought widespread devastation and civilian demoralisation ( such that a cordon had to be thrown round the city , and news from it heavily censored ) ; likewise , the bombing of the East End of London intimidated its inhabitants far more than the government dared admit at the time . |
| 11 | Erm , and it is , erm the waste disposal sub-committee did resolve at their meeting erm , earlier this month , to request the finance sub- committee to make er , an allocation . |
| 12 | It does seem to be true that proteins of a given kind do evolve at a surprisingly , although not exactly , uniform rate . |
| 13 | On leaving the squadron did take at least two of its old Hurricane Is with it . |
| 14 | If the play did end at this point , the real anticlerical joke would be that the Interludium does not go on to the successful trick as the audience might have expected and the clerk might have hoped . |
| 15 | ( c ) If property did pass at the moment of the making of the contract , the making of the contract constituted the appropriation , because by that act the rogue assumed the rights of the owner . |
| 16 | But we 're looking at it with hindsight , we ca n't just say that because of this this that and the other erm that pragmatism did overrule at this particular point in time . |
| 17 | A police spokesman said : ‘ A camera does operate at that site 24 hours a day . |
| 18 | Kimberley let fly at the dangling men from a hopeless range . |
| 19 | … must nine warriors , having nine spears , with a ten furrows ' Width between them and him , assail him and at the same time let fly at him . |
| 20 | She , in fact did look at me rather palsely once or twice . |