Example sentences of "[been] [verb] at [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haverford asked on the children 's behalf , but they had already found it , scampering away through the display of giant dolls , plastic picnic tables , local cheese and wine , and returned resentful at having been glowered at by the resident guardian because they had n't understood the purpose of her saucer of lire . |
| 2 | ‘ What I 'm saying , Vitali — what I 've been driving at in my own bluff way — is that I would very much appreciate , that 's to say , well … ’ |
| 3 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 4 | More than 250 ideas emerged from the presentation , and each one has been looked at for possibilities . |
| 5 | Natural populations of white clover are polymorphic for incompatibility alleles and for the ability to form nitrogen fixing symbioses with strains of Rhizobium but these have not been looked at at Henfaes . |
| 6 | The report that hon. Members receive and that the public pick up outside would have been looked at from the point of view of the client , the promoter and the public interest . |
| 7 | It is this logic of practice which effectively negates most research and is perhaps the main reason that between 1979 and 1988 , only one of the research papers I have compiled has been looked at by senior officers . |
| 8 | I I I I know er it 's been looked at by the D T I but has it been looked at by the treasury itself ? |
| 9 | I I I I know er it 's been looked at by the D T I but has it been looked at by the treasury itself ? |
| 10 | Recently the life habits of the giants have been looked at in a way that disproves most of these traditional notions . |
| 11 | Finally , public relations has been looked at in some detail , because this area has expanded most over recent years and its relationship to the selling function is a very direct one as the sales force is increasingly being called upon to carry out PR activity . |
| 12 | we approximately the subject we had been looking at for some time so I approximately , nineteen eighty eight , nineteen eighty nine |
| 13 | And in understanding the old picture so vividly , he has prepared us to appreciate , and to understand , many things which we either could not previously have hoped to understand , or which we had been looking at with half-open eyes . |
| 14 | After a one-minute search , he noticed the National Geographic magazine which he had been looking at with the teacher earlier in the day . |
| 15 | But finally deciding it was time to move off , and doing his best to ignore the rooks , which began to mob him again the moment he took flight , he flew three hundred yards to another oak which he had been looking at with some care . |
| 16 | I must know how , I 've been looking at at the . |
| 17 | The writers and compilers of the stories we have been looking at in this chapter knew that . |
| 18 | Miranda taller , with her bushy hair and colouring that the Italians whose paintings she 'd been looking at in the Louvre rendered by priming the canvas with a copper-based green paint , creating a complexion that draws light in rather than gives it out ; Xanthe beside her with her candy radiance of pink and gold , and rounder too , more neatly assembled , wrist to hand , neck to shoulders , ankle to foot . |
| 19 | What have you been looking at in the maths . |
| 20 | An older discovery that has become significant is the taxon ‘ Proconsul ( Xenopithecus ) hamiltoni ’ described for a maxilla fragment from Lothidok Hill in northern Kenya , because the Eragaleit beds from which this fossil came ( together with some additional undescribed specimens ) have recently been dated at between 24.3 and 27.5Myr . |
| 21 | My old friend Fred Emery , who presented the programme from the Falklands , told us — and I have confirmed this from other sources — that the Cabinet is struggling to decide whether to build a new airstrip alongside Stanley 's existing facilities or , as has been hinted at in the Commons , on an entirely new site . |
| 22 | Such a collapse had been hinted at in molecular dynamics computer simulations . |
| 23 | ‘ It has already been hinted at by oor worthy comrade up the back before he passed oot , we are but six months old as a body … ’ |
| 24 | Erm the element of control side of it , is extremely frustrating and have have been hinted at by previous speakers to see what are in effect regular and truly massive retail operations going on without development control , without the development of any kind of highway controls which is a county council matter is fully my argue frustrating . |
| 25 | Gqozo 's claim that his troops had been shot at by the demonstrators ( ballistics evidence showed that the one dead Ciskei soldier was shot by his fellow soldiers ) . |
| 26 | LIN 's merger agreement with Bell South has been valued at between $108 and $112 a share , but the deal will not reward shareholders until early next year . |
| 27 | Mr Ram hinted that Mr Kasturi had been got at by government officials . |
| 28 | Harriet , being no fool , read between the lines and knew that Sidney had been got at by his stronger-minded and cynical other half . |
| 29 | Some of them have been got at by the plant-breeders and bear no resemblance to the species or variety originally discovered ; some remain the same , being already sufficiently beautiful or useful . |
| 30 | Fortunately , technical developments have ensured that the increase in computing power per unit cost has been growing at about an order of magnitude every 6 years over the last three decades . |