Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were also powerfully promoted by domestic service at a time when even the meanest clerk expected to employ at least a resident maid-of-all-work . |
| 2 | ‘ What happened , ’ says an attendant parent , ‘ is that our defence stopped to look at the train . |
| 3 | None of the fathers ' job descriptions given on the birth certificate referred to work at a nuclear establishment . |
| 4 | It all began in the early hours when it 's alleged the car failed to stop at a police check and sped off through the city centre and out along the Botley Road . |
| 5 | We were told that after 1948 the revenue sought to tax at least two categories of employees in receipt of in-house benefits . |
| 6 | The work was actually carried out in 1971–72 , although the lease did not take effect until February 1974 just two months before the old county borough ceased to exist at the time of local government reorganisation . |
| 7 | Under the terms of the agreement , representatives from these five countries would help oversee the movement of millions of tonnes of grain and other food aid expected to arrive at South African ports . |
| 8 | They looked red and sore and his mouth seemed to droop at the corners . |
| 9 | This divergence began to emerge at a very early stage . |
| 10 | Attacks on some of Iran 's smaller towns and cities occurred comparatively early in the war , but apart from the first two days , it is not clear when either side decided to strike at population centres as a strategic option . |
| 11 | Then , as it slid over Jekub 's angular shape , its own weight started to tug at it … |
| 12 | In earlier times and into the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , many of the basic administrative and judicial activities were carried out through the arrangement of hundreds , hundred courts , and hundredal manors courts being held at hundred meeting places , where three men for every tithing or vill had to attend at three-weekly intervals . |
| 13 | The mist still limited visibility to less than a hundred yards and the fog-horn continued to blare at regular intervals . |
| 14 | The tweed-coated figure continued to stare at the page of the book to the left of his plate , ignoring his companion . |
| 15 | The fact that ‘ official ’ criminals were overwhelmingly from the working class and were seen to be responding to the same forces that promoted socialist consciousness tended to favour at least a positive , if not heroic view of their activities . |
| 16 | When Luke called her heart seemed to expand at the look of admiration that slipped over his face as his gaze took in her simple cream suit in thick , crunchy lace , the severe black camisole she wore beneath it , but he merely murmured , ‘ Punctual as always . |
| 17 | Sir Wilfred Grenfell of Labrador came to speak at the White Rock Pavilion , Hastings , at his request . |
| 18 | The recession has exacerbated this problem to such an extent that the Metropolitan Police has a Fraud Squad division detailed to look at the issue . |
| 19 | Her skin seemed to burn at their touch . |
| 20 | He entered in the midst of a raging dispute about whether the endowment deserved to exist at all . |
| 21 | Holly heard him shift on his bunk and the mattress seemed to belch at the movement . |
| 22 | In a recent incident a vehicle failed to stop at the junction and damaged Curwen House the building on Gubberford Lane almost opposite the end of Tithe Barn Lane . |
| 23 | The main oil fields in production are the Bombay High off the west coast and some onshore fields in Gujerat and Assam but with consumption expected to rise at some 6% per year this aim is unlikely to be achieved without significant new discoveries . |
| 24 | They passed , apparently oblivious , intent only on their own business ; but hardly a soul in the village failed to pass at some time during that day , and not one missed a detail of what was there to be seen . |
| 25 | No , ’ the brief self-mocking laugh seemed to tear at this throat , ‘ I want far more than that . |
| 26 | A security guard came to smile at our picnic on the grass . |
| 27 | The survey was a comparison between self-service and counter-service grocers and the student was puzzled that the old lady claimed to shop at a counter-service yet all her answers suggested that she used a self-service shop . |
| 28 | A tiny weeny hint of a plan began to tinkle at the back of my brain like a triangle at the back of an orchestra . |
| 29 | The formation started to build at 8:27am when the F-5A joined the Valkyrie . |
| 30 | On the basis of this , it is submitted that the question of subsidiarity is essentially a political question for the Council , and if the Council decided to act at the Community level it would not be possible to challenge what it did simply on the basis that it could better have been done at the level of the Member States ; rather , it would be necessary to show a manifest error , a misuse of power or a clear passing of the limits of discretion , and it is submitted that the occasions when this might be done will be rare . |