Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [to-vb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time has come to look at the Treaty of European Union and the philosophy which lies behind it in a little more detail . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The four other men at the table with him sensed his panic and stopped talking to look at the newcomer . |
| 11 | Maxim stopped trying to peer at the shadowed faces in front of him and put on a pair of sunglasses . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I am a little surprised that the Planning Committee decided to go to look at the hockey club but not eighty seven houses in . |
| 14 | 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 — |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But before you do you 've got to look at the material in the working file . |
| 18 | The Bazaar totally exceeded all expectations , and was a rousing success , raising in excess of £6,000 when the Building Committee had only dared to hope to raise at the most optimistic a sum of £5,000 . |
| 19 | I played against Wayne Biggins , who had a tremendous game , so I know how much I 've got to learn to compete at the highest level . |
| 20 | And then it was only because I knew I was going to have to leave at the crack of dawn on Friday , and I would n't have time to fix anything up . ’ |
| 21 | The $489m loss for 1992 means that another 10,000 to 15,000 more jobs are going to have to go at the company as part of the continuing restructuring plan — its payroll actually rose to 252,000 at the end of 1992 from 240,000 in 1991 . |
| 22 | The few pieces of furniture looked old , solid , and unprepossessing , the kind of stuff that Pete would have expected to see at the bargain end of a market-town auction . |
| 23 | Fluka is continuing to work to stay at the forefront of knowledge in these areas . |
| 24 | I found myself questioning many of their beliefs in a way that I would not have dared to do at the beginning of the study ; I could question them in their own terms and in doing so , test the boundaries of their beliefs . |
| 25 | Most travellers with their wits about them and an eye for aesthetics would have preferred to rest at the Bates Motel . |
| 26 | Without his Histories in Four Books we should know virtually nothing of what happened in the months following Louis the Pious 's death , and , more importantly , we should have had to guess at the motivations of those involved . |
| 27 | ‘ If he did he 'd have had to park at the back of St Manicus house since they 've banned parking in the precinct now . |
| 28 | ‘ I think big clubs will always have to compete to stay at the top and these prices show the way the transfer market has gone . |
| 29 | But I had to keep stopping to peer at the pages , so after a few attempts I gave up . |
| 30 | I think Stan if he 'd looked at that situation again would probably have wanted to go at the first defender an and gone and gone up the left side . |