Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The most important thing is to organise a system that encourages them to stick at it day by day and week by week . |
| 2 | But for value for money , New York 's Empire State Building has them beaten at 6.7ft a penny |
| 3 | In the streets and in other public places everyone stares at us , as they see few foreigners here . |
| 4 | The Air Force , again for reasons of cost , wants them based at existing missile sites in Wyoming , whence they would flee when a crisis loomed . |
| 5 | Despite its alarmingly boring title , it has nothing to say at all about the Ford Administration : it starts off in the wholly recognisable Updike Couples-land of middle-aged infidelity in New England academia , before broadening into reflections on the way sexual liberation became virtually mandatory in the hot years of the late 1970s ( the Ford years ) . |
| 6 | And Sonya 's We are one , we live as one , ’ while it remains authorially bold , has nothing to fear at the hands of readers quick to sniff out dogma . |
| 7 | A computer is a wonderfully useful tool but it will be only a nuisance to your wife if all the language data is locked up on disks and she has nothing to look at in a spare five minutes . |
| 8 | I mean it 's , it 's er , it needs somebody working at it full time |
| 9 | he wants , he wants somebody looking at him and saying well |
| 10 | they were er a what she wants you to look at it and see |
| 11 | Istvan Gati , as the Persian King , Orontes , is a sensational baritone with a clear , passionate tone , although his baritone Jozsef Moldvay sounds as though he has something stuck at the back o his mouth , a bit of dust maybe , which causes him to deliver the interpretation of his role in a somewhat unexpected manner . |
| 12 | This sub-paragraph is concerned with materials and artificial substances , whether in solid or liquid form or in the form of a gas or vapour , so that the sub-paragraph covers everything used at work and all work activities . |
| 13 | Has anybody looked at that ? |
| 14 | Erm , has anybody looked at any of the other books , like for example , the one on ? |
| 15 | John 's wife Clare has to stand outside the stable on a crate with Milton 's tail over the top of the stable door and pull it from there , while John has him twitched at the front end . |
| 16 | Has it changed at all ? |
| 17 | How long has he worked at ffeatherstonehaugh 's , Ellis ? ’ |
| 18 | Has he looked at the way that they are used by individual police forces ? |
| 19 | Has anyone looked at the amount of sodium spectral orange that is transformed to microwaves in this way ? |
| 20 | Mm yes , well I think they sound like good targets , is , has anyone looked at their work and said I worked my socks off for that , I could not have improved it , I 've left that section blank so everybody thinks they could of improved that piece of work , good , that 's what this is all about , getting better . |
| 21 | Last year , you know , totally rat-arsed. now , he 's putting up a list of all the poems he wants us to look at for next week . |
| 22 | ‘ Mr Butters has placed obstacles in our path all the way while at the same time stating that he wants us to stay at Belle Vue . |
| 23 | He says someone called at her house at noon yesterday , and its likely he returned later with the robbers . |
| 24 | The Amsterdam Travel Service Cycling Holiday allows you to explore at your own pace the colourful landscape in what is arguably the most beautiful area of the Netherlands — ‘ t Gooi en Vechtstreek or ‘ The Garden of Amsterdam ’ . |
| 25 | If you 're short of worktops , a wooden block on wheels can be moved to a free space and allows you to work at a similar height to your kitchen worktop . |
| 26 | He forces you to work at controlling the character because he brings so much to the part . ’ |
| 27 | True to form , the Valvestate S80 is more than happy to oblige and at low volume the Boost channel switched to OD2 handles everything thrown at it . |
| 28 | She says they bark at all times of day and night . |
| 29 | The latter is imagined to be a snake-like movement that translates the chain through the tube and allows it to escape at the tube ends . |
| 30 | He says he looked at WABI and its approach a year ago and was unimpressed . |