Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the partnership agreement itself it should perhaps not be made too easy for partners to leave , though in practice , of course , an unhappy or unsatisfied partner is a liability whom the firm will usually want to see depart at the earliest convenient time . |
| 2 | Creaney , who now forms a new strike partnership with Andy Payton , and has nudged his boyhood idol Charlie Nicholas into reserve football , feels the Cologne tie has come at the right time . |
| 3 | The time has come to look at the Treaty of European Union and the philosophy which lies behind it in a little more detail . |
| 4 | The chair has to come to rest at the bottom of the stairs and you need room to get on and off at both ends . |
| 5 | This phase will only be entered if no errors were detected during the prepass phase and the user has selected to continue at the end of the prepass phase . |
| 6 | As part of a reassessment of its priorities , SERC has had to look at the balance of its forward planning , in particular to ensure that the funding of grants can recover from necessary short-term stringencies . |
| 7 | It does seem a pity that no one has bothered to look at the actual behaviour of the children in question in relation to such practices as might lead them to encounter greater dangers of lead pollution ; the almost entire absence of psychologists among the medical and other experts engaged in this research may account for their overlooking a very obvious alternative hypothesis . |
| 8 | We would only need to witness a marked increase in trade and there will certainly be an increase in demand why do you think trade has increased ? and trade is n't a necessary condition it 's just that trade has tended to grow at the same time as erm as demand is growing . |
| 9 | I believe that er we did n't er consider going to look at the development because it was quite clearly in the minds of a large percentage of us that it was contrary to the town plan and so we did not think it was necessary to do that . |
| 10 | Unless the landlord has opted to tax at the standard rate , there is generally an exempt supply for VAT purposes on the grant of any interest in , right over , or licence to occupy land in the UK ( for example , the grant or assignment of a lease , except an assignment to the landlord ; Sch 6 , Group 1 , item 1 , Note ( 1 ) and Sch 6A , para 2-4 ) . |
| 11 | In September 1977 , my girlfriend Lynn and I eloped and tried to get married at the Ali-Shavers bout . |
| 12 | For the next few years American audiences were shown aspects of their society that they could never have expected to have encountered at the movies and it must have struck at least some members of the public that film-going had become a more serious business . |
| 13 | These appear to have grown at the edge of the platform and were surrounded by oolitic sand shoals ( Peryt et al . |
| 14 | Since Britten 's death in 1976 Sir Peter has continued to live at the Red House where he observes with sometimes amused and sometimes astonished eyes , the considerable development of the Britten-Pears Library and the Britten Archive . |
| 15 | The EC sought co-operation against drug traffickers , and Mexico was reported to have inserted at the last minute a formula to safeguard its national jurisdiction in this area . |
| 16 | Stalin is reported to have remarked at the end of the war that to establish communist rule in Poland would be like ‘ trying to saddle a cow ’ and Soviet relations with that country ( the largest and most populous in Eastern Europe ) have borne out these apprehensions . |
| 17 | Taylor was reported to have protested at the arrival in Monrovia in mid-February of 10 Nigerian air force fighter planes , and to have warned that he would continue to oppose Sawyer 's interim government and the presence of ECOMOG . |
| 18 | The four other men at the table with him sensed his panic and stopped talking to look at the newcomer . |
| 19 | Unless you want to get arrested at the finish , do n't ever wear it again . ’ |
| 20 | Maxim stopped trying to peer at the shadowed faces in front of him and put on a pair of sunglasses . |
| 21 | The amendment which has gone up there and which I think is being circulated is our amendment which is designed to achieve spending at the government target figure . |
| 22 | It is true that we are more enlightened than we were ; there is a public which has learnt to smile at the reviewer who declares that a line ‘ will not scan ’ , or that it contains a ‘ trochee ’ where it should have had an ‘ iamb ’ , without considering whether it was ever intended to ‘ scan ’ , or whether there is anything in English verse which can be treated as the absolute equivalent of a Greek or Latin trochee . |
| 23 | I am a little surprised that the Planning Committee decided to go to look at the hockey club but not eighty seven houses in . |
| 24 | She seemed to stand staring at the two of them , and they at her , for a long time , while outside , where night was making of the road a strange country , the vegetation grew black and monstrous . |
| 25 | And of course the woman was n't really one of theirs , just some distant freelance , and the back-up with her was some nutty amateur they 'd had to use at the last moment — |
| 26 | I explained how I 'd attempted to fire at the Corporal as Kaptan lay on the ground and how the gun had malfunctioned ; it would be more accurate to say I 'd been first to aim but the Corporal had got his shots off first . |
| 27 | The Cabinet broke up without reaching a final decision , only to be warned by John Major that it risks having to meet at the weekend . |
| 28 | It climbed vertically above the field , retracing its earlier journey , until it seemed to hang suspended at the precise point where it had rested a moment ago . |
| 29 | The currency management was entrusted to a French bank whose shareholders were said to have prospered at the expense of Arab fiscal autonomy . |
| 30 | On the night of the 17th and into the next day , the Germans mounted a massive bombardment ; shells are said to have fallen at the rate of 400 a minute . |