Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at [pos pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem remains of how to get the existing parliament to connive at its own demise . |
| 2 | ( Abberley looks at his own cardiograph for a time . |
| 3 | Lucy looked at her own face in the mirror . |
| 4 | Choking , he shifted one hand from his enemy to claw at his own throat , and instantly the fist that was strangling him heaved him roughly back from the edge and flung him down in safety at the foot of the wall . |
| 5 | Additional experiments with proteins initiated at their own start codons indicated that the extensions do not significantly alter the behaviour of Myc , Max1 , Max2 , Max1 C and Max2 C ( data not shown ) . |
| 6 | After hundreds of training cycles , the computer arrives at its own rules for reaching the same diagnosis as its human mentor . |
| 7 | ( This was a circumstance paralleled at his own funeral , when the friends and relations of the woman he 'd been living with for part of the week since the early 1960s stole the show from us , the pathetic huddle of the family of his middle years . ) |
| 8 | Mo was saying that each child progresses at his own rate , and that later lulls regularly offset the apparent advances of their early years . |
| 9 | Karen looked at her own hands . |
| 10 | Howard was not only thanked by Parliament for his humanity and zeal ; he even had copies of the Act printed at his own expense and distributed to all gaol keepers . |
| 11 | We will work to strengthen the external frontiers of the Community whilst maintaining the checks needed at our own borders against illegal immigration , drugs , terrorism and disease . |
| 12 | I think that given that University work is supposed to encourage intellectual activity at the highest level of which any individual is capable it is very important to increase motivation by allowing those individuals to proceed at their own pace and to establish their cognitive frames as and when they feel capable of doing so . |
| 13 | Federman has explained this characteristic as ‘ imagination mocking what it pretends to be doing … imagination laughing at its own pretensions ’ ( Federman 1976a : 576 ) . |
| 14 | The years spent at Cass enabled Rod Morris to evolve at his own pace and allowed his intuition the subtle space it required . |
| 15 | The years spent at Cass enabled Rod Morris to evolve at his own pace and allowed his intuition the subtle space it required . |
| 16 | Mr Major will tell Tory rebels to look at their own constituencies to see the effect of Euro investment . |
| 17 | He , Lewis , was quite prepared to get the place redecorated at his own expense . |
| 18 | KPMG reserve the right to publish at its own expense and subject to your prior approval a tombstone recording the completed transaction unless you inform us that this would be in breach of specific confidentiality undertakings exchanged between the parties . |
| 19 | KPMG reserve the right to publish at its own expense and subject to your prior approval a tombstone recording the completed transaction unless you inform us that this would be in breach of specific confidentiality undertakings exchanged between the parties . |
| 20 | KPMG reserve the right to publish at its own expense and subject to your prior approval a tombstone recording the completed transaction unless you inform us that this would be in breach of specific confidentiality undertakings exchanged between the parties . |
| 21 | KPMG reserve the right to publish at its own expense and subject to your prior approval a tombstone recording the completed transaction unless you inform us that this would be in breach of specific confidentiality undertakings exchanged between the parties . |
| 22 | KPMG reserve the right to publish at its own expense and subject to your prior approval a tombstone recording on the completed transaction unless you inform us that this would be in breach of specific confidentiality undertakings exchanged between the parties . |
| 23 | KPMG reserve the right to publish at its own expense and subject to your prior approval a tombstone recording the completed transaction unless you inform us that this would be in breach of specific confidentiality undertakings exchanged between the parties . |
| 24 | Maintain a passive attitude and permit relaxation to occur at its own pace . |
| 25 | Space and air and the chance to go at his own pace , and most of all he needed to get away from the Zoo to that place which in the weeks he had been ill he had begun to sense must exist , though he knew neither its name nor where it might be . |
| 26 | Noreen teaches HGV lorry driving at her own school in Halifax . |
| 27 | The best assignments allow learners to progress at their own pace and provide opportunities for tutors and learners to tailor provision to meet individual needs . |
| 28 | Vic grimaces at his own reflection , as if to say : come off it , no identity crises , please . |
| 29 | So why do n't we just let things develop at their own pace ? ’ |
| 30 | A delighted , if somewhat bewildered smile tugging at her own mouth , her eyes alight with laughter , she watched him melt into the crowds . |