Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [to-vb] at the " in BNC.

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1 The cook needs room to get at the cooker , sink and cupboards without hindrance and to move around the kitchen comfortably .
2 Furphy , whose recent past included a spell in the United States , ( where a high flyer leisure executive delivered the ‘ amazing ’ one liner , which has stuck in his mind to this day ) is the hands on marketing man whose job it is to oversee the vast membership growth that is enabling Lloyd to expand at the rate of two clubs per year .
3 I think a top quality keeper should be a priority for any side that has ambitions to stay at the top .
4 Erm the process check list erm again they 've identified the people on each erm and within that they 've actually nominated people to look at the land ownership which is the , on the ignored with their rider on the previous sheet .
5 Hari felt a rush of disappointment , she had expected Lewis to jump at the chance of earning some money but it seemed he was reluctant to take her venture seriously .
6 I started putting in more hours and sometimes found reason to sleep at the office , hoping I could sleep off this feeling of falling out of love .
7 Zeuxis 's painted vine provoked the wonder and the applause of all his audience when it attracted birds to peck at the plump fruit .
8 She came to visit Streatlam to look at the horses and I thought what a very handsome woman she was .
9 The taxman ought to require companies to reveal at the end of each tax year how much each company car insured for private use has cost them in depreciation , insurance , servicing and fuel .
10 She understood then that if she had had leisure to listen at the right moment , she might have heard the faint , suggestive sounds of a third presence .
11 have you had chance to look at the
12 The human world and hell joined forces to scoff at the dying man .
13 Cross the moor heading north-west to arrive at the Glen Brittle Hut .
14 The hard men ride shoulder to shoulder at the front , trying to wear each other down : one jumps , another responds then jumps away himself .
15 FIG. 2 a , Model E , a sequence of flux movements describing a reversal initiated in the Southern Hemisphere from flux patches originating in the Atlantic region ( centre of the circle ) and drifting west to accumulate at the Pacific rim and eliminate , then reverse , the initial configuration of four flux lobes .
16 Well it 's the only time we get chance to talk at the moment is n't it ?
17 You will just need to uudecode the following file called champs to get at the gif called leeds2.gif .
18 Messages would be sent out , up and down the track , summoning song-owners to assemble at the Big Place .
19 After only eight lessons Arlene asked Paula to wait at the end of class .
20 The offenders had to enter into recognizances and find sureties to appear at the next ‘ Court of Justice Seat ’ , as the Forest Eyre was now called : final judgment was pronounced there .
21 Erm , if we are asking Mr to look at the long-term viability and the ways of preserving that , those options may be other than option one which was what you moved , and I think it 's rather premature to actually go down a road that says we preserve it in it 's present form with some disposals , when , we are asking for a report for it 's future viability , which may mean complete disposal , or may not , and I think , that , that 's why I 've seconded Mr 's amendment , because it 's right we should wait for that that report to come to property , know the full facts , and then we can make a decision as to which option we want for the County Farms estate .
22 Referring to the latest spate of bombings , Mr Trimble urged Ministers to answer at the despatch box ‘ instead of their shameful silence , which demonstrates their ineptitude and incompetence . ’
23 And as she raised her chilled , dripping face to look at the sky , the black clouds parted .
24 This may mean you will have time to spare at the airport before boarding your flight .
25 The meeting urged cadres to work at the frontline as " vanguard models " to demonstrate the " strong leadership provided by the superior socialist system " in triumphing over natural disasters .
26 Before analysing the role of the A&R department in both record and music publishing companies , it would make sense to look at the other areas which create a fully operational major record company : manufacturing and distribution , recording studios , marketing and promotion , sales , professional advisers , and the international division .
27 During the Saturday morning rehearsal , with Beecham conducting the Vancouver Symphony , the players arranged in tiers from the podium to the back of the stage , a disquieting incident occurred : in the midst of a quiet passage in a Mozart divertimento the tympany player , one George W. Ball , accidentally dropped the cymbal , which rolled down with clanging crashes to rest at the conductor 's feet .
28 In 1710 financiers in the City of London had formed the South Sea Company to bid for the right to use the privileges they expected Britain to get at the end of the war .
29 Because much of the erupted magma was gas-poor , we propose that a subsurface connection exists between the intrusion and the summit feeder conduit ( Fig. 3 ) allowing gas to escape at the summit craters .
30 In the higher primates these possibilities can already be seen emerging as actualities when chimpanzees use twigs to get at the occupants of a termite-mound , or wave branches to scare off leopards .
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