Example sentences of "[vb past] at [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eighteenth-century oil of Wicken Fen by an artist whose indecipherable signature , peered at through a microscope , had provided so many shared moments of happy conjecture . |
| 2 | And they shouted at in a while they saw it coming up again , they give another warning . |
| 3 | The problems associated with the battle of the forms arise because the common law principles governing the formation of contracts are based on the concept of a bargain arrived at through a process of negotiation , while the whole purpose of standard conditions is to minimise or exclude the process of negotiation . |
| 4 | This agreement , arrived at in a period of relative stability in international air travel , had been thrown into question with the arrival — and more pertinently , the collapse — of Freddie Laker 's cut-price service . |
| 5 | The emphasis placed on current practice could be described as self-sufficiency ; an ability to make and act upon decisions arrived at from a position of sound professional judgement , decisions arrived at independently of doctors but complementary to their assessment of patients . |
| 6 | Does ‘ read ’ mean ‘ studied assiduously from cover to cover ’ or ‘ borrowed to look at one or two chapters ’ or ‘ glanced at in a library ’ ? |
| 7 | I worked at as a nurse and there 's , actually there 's a lot of pressure going on there as will back up . |
| 8 | ‘ What has happened is that we have been clawed back from the disastrous level of whitefish we started at to a position in line with the top end of scientific advice . ’ |
| 9 | When looked at on a year-to-year basis , our diets may very little . |
| 10 | This last was to acknowledge Charles , whom she looked at for a moment with suspicion . |
| 11 | But looked at from a Roman point of view , the papacy is not one system of Church government among others . |
| 12 | ‘ I thing it is my forte to take something like a relationship , and then examine it and mirror it in different songs , it 's actually the same relationship but looked at from a different way . |
| 13 | Nor , looked at from a genetics point of view are they clearly distinguishable : cases of manic-depression , for example , can often occur against a family background of schizophrenia , and vice versa . |
| 14 | Details of the experiments themselves do not concern us here , but some of the ideas that have emerged from them are of interest because they add further to our understanding of how , looked at from a biological perspective , creativity can be connected to psychosis . |
| 15 | This evolutionary argument appeals to continuities between humans and other animals , looked at from a human point of view . |
| 16 | His picture is reproduced in a stunning dot pattern which introduces cerebral haemorrhage if looked at from a range of less than ten yards . |
| 17 | His picture is reproduced in a stunning dot pattern which introduces cerebral haemorrhage if looked at from a range of less than ten yards . |
| 18 | ‘ You ought to get this looked at by a doctor if it does n't stop bleeding soon . ’ |
| 19 | Here are some of the main basic devices : [ quote ] Looked at in a cold light , most of these devices seem pretty silly , if not worse . |
| 20 | At three a.m. she was Jay-in-love-with-Lucy , writing bad poetry or self-indulgent screeds of what daylight sneered at as a journal . |