Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But my life never really started at any stage — which I know you wo n't believe , but it 's true — so it never really got stopped at any point . |
| 2 | Steve , asked to sit at another table , astonished their host , Lord McAlpine , with the reply : ‘ Mah woman and I sit together . ’ |
| 3 | Unlike Descartes , who felt the need to prove their existence , and Malebranche , who was certain he could not , Locke simply had no doubt that material things existed and caused our ideas : ‘ The actual receiving of ideas from without … makes us know , that something doth exist at that time without us , which causes that idea in us . ’ |
| 4 | No matter where you finally wind up in the advertising business , you will want to work at some stage in an agency to gain real insight into advertising and acquire first-rate skills ( and , hopefully , reputation ) that puts wheels under your career . |
| 5 | They passed , apparently oblivious , intent only on their own business ; but hardly a soul in the village failed to pass at some time during that day , and not one missed a detail of what was there to be seen . |
| 6 | Suddenly , there facing you , is the person you least want to see at that moment . |
| 7 | You want to abort at that point , oh yeah retry 'll do . |
| 8 | She is trying to make explicit what lies hidden at another level , one which the participants , whether schooled or unschooled , are not drawing attention to themselves : the cognitive level . |
| 9 | They have two natural gaits the gentle , lolloping , forward movement of the warren on a summer evening and the lightning dash for cover that every human has seen at some time or other . |
| 10 | They say that they want real convergence and decisions in the treaty for which no one else in the Community has argued at any stage . |
| 11 | They stopped shouting at each other , expecting the Headmaster to burst in on them at any moment . |
| 12 | Although the board paid an interim dividend of 0.65 pence , it has decided at this stage to invest its funds in the business — the amount available , says chairman Rupert Bayfield , would have been negligible anyway . |
| 13 | Before you switch on , set questions to focus students on whatever you want to highlight at that stage . |
| 14 | bit here and I thought god that so I thought right I 'm gon na change places in that seat but your father 's sitting on , alright , I said go in that back seat , just behind us there were there or I said or I 'm just coming to sit where you are , I said I ca n't do four hours sitting like this , I mean I 'd have been boss eyed before I got , well I was I , I , all say look at that cloud |
| 15 | ‘ It may be that Parliament has to look at this issue of excluding people from property when they 've got property rights , ’ he said . |
| 16 | I want to look at that stuff they 've got over there . |
| 17 | Yes , and this is why I want to look at this week at a glance diary , so that you will go away and I want you to fill this in as I 'm filling in on the board , you 'll go away with an idea what a diary , sorry , spit there , ha , erm , of what a diary will look like roughly , so that you know what your diary should look like every week . |
| 18 | So you do need to look at that page very carefully and I still get tied up sometimes and have to do a few crossings out . |
| 19 | The bar chart that was the result of the survey we did you need to look at that piece of work and ask yourself a question , is this piece of work the best thing I have ever done ? |
| 20 | Avoid specimens that are swimming off the aquarium bottom as this is a sign of distress and usually means an imbalance of water has occurred at some stage of the export/importation process . |
| 21 | Because star formation and hence the formation of neutron stars by supernova collapse in NGC6342 ceased long ago , the apparent youth of the pulsar suggests that a major event has occurred at some time during the last 10Myr . |
| 22 | Someone wants to look at , someone wants to look at that graph , and get some idea of the speed from it , the velocity . |
| 23 | It 's what everyone has to do at some time — it 's called taking responsibility for yourself . |
| 24 | If you want to point at another directory , you do C D change directory , and that 's pointing at the root directory there . |
| 25 | The ratio of girls to boys going to university fluctuated from 70 per cent in 1925 ; 50 per cent in 1937 ; 47 per cent in 1950 ; 50 per cent in 1960 ; 66 per cent in 1973 ; and it has remained at that level since . |
| 26 | Instead he raised his talons and struck at the wire mesh in his own turn , which only provoked the other eagle to do the same again , the sounds of both of them increased by the flapping of their great wings and the crashing of their beaks on the cage walls as they vainly tried to get at each other . |
| 27 | However , nothing untoward has happened at that spot since and the lines have been lifted , affording no clue as to the evil influence that lurked under the hoardings of the Fish Dock Road . |
| 28 | In fact , you do not actually need to price at that level ; the rival just has to believe that you will if it enters the market . |
| 29 | Some 45 per cent of British households drink water that has passed at some stage through lead pipes . |
| 30 | I tried to explain at that press conference and the only one who understood was Bridges , the only one . |