Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] at [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is Company Standing Training Committee , which comprises people from divisions which looks at those issues , run by Jenny . |
| 2 | As we have seen an algorithm which prunes at point B ( Fig. 9. 2 ) can produce very similar behaviour to one which orders at these points . |
| 3 | ‘ In the towns now they are so busy or so tired , poor souls , or so wretched and idle that there is no time for that calm contemplation of one 's existence which is the best part of our lives and which continues at all levels in a place such as this , among the peasantry as much as among those they call the Statesmen . |
| 4 | Rather I wish to draw attention to a particular exhibit in the gallery which is quite simply the best that I have ever seen and which appeals at many levels : intellectual , artistic and aesthetic . |
| 5 | So the things are happening , and you 'll be talking in a moment to Jenny and the work she does at All Saints Convent . |
| 6 | If one looks at these persons we agree are ‘ great ’ butlers , if one looks at , say , Mr Marshall or Mr Lane , it does seem to me that the factor which distinguishes them from those butlers who are merely extremely competent is most closely captured by this word ‘ dignity ’ . |
| 7 | Furthermore , when one looks at these paintings by Cézanne one is often struck by the closeness between the poses of certain figures and those of the ‘ demoiselles ’ . |
| 8 | No one looks at these buildings . |
| 9 | The littlest one leaks at both ends incessantly . |
| 10 | And the easiest way to ensure that — a readiness to criticise the Government at each and every turn — is the one temptation he has at all costs to resist . |
| 11 | He needs at all rimes to be in full possession of his faculties , or that extra , unpredictable poetic thrust would never declare itself — that heart-lifting boost that rockets mere words into the outer spaces of true poetry . |
| 12 | It has at all times been an act of faith and a declaration of belief , the faith and the belief that a society and a nation will fare best , in this world and the next , where the most promising of its youth are withdrawn at a critical period of their development to spend several years in close and intimate proximity with one another and with those whose talent and delight is the pursuit of knowledge of all kinds for its own sake and the communication of that talent and delight to their successors . |
| 13 | It opens at both ends and fastens with drawcords . |
| 14 | I mention this only because it is one of the dominant features in an inspector 's life , the shadow of which he feels at all times . |