Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at [pos pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Molly Scrutton was invited to teach at a KFA Training Course in Thorpe and she has taught at our own Rallies in Kent and Essex earlier in the year . |
| 2 | He did not for a while want to look at his own face . |
| 3 | He has perished at his own hands at the death . |
| 4 | There were all sorts of disadvantages to that , but she did want to look at her own presentation and movement in the classroom . |
| 5 | I railed at the NSS typesetters and then happened to look at my own copy and saw that the mistake was entirely mine . |
| 6 | Having invented and evolved culture , man , it seems , never ceases to marvel at his own creation . |
| 7 | His are primarily paintings , compositions in which he includes other objects with ‘ a universal symbolism that 's not precise — people have got to arrive at their own interpretation , ’ he stresses . |
| 8 | He was bound to provide at his own cost one riding forester and two walking foresters to keep his bailiwick , and to perform the military service of ‘ going in the army at the King 's cost wherever the King goes ’ . |
| 9 | Babies like to arrive at their own time , Celia recalled her gynaecologist saying . |
| 10 | Continue walking at your own speed , pulling slightly on the leash in order to tighten the choke chain , accompanying this with the command ‘ heel ’ . |
| 11 | For Miss Lavender would not , perhaps , have cared , Miss Lavender would never have cried at her own funeral . |
| 12 | But each country will have to look at its own resources and solutions . |
| 13 | ‘ Each Church will have to look at its own organisation and how it faces up to the problem but the element of mutual trust enables people to look at each other also . ’ |
| 14 | As she stared entranced at her own image , Folly felt a warming in her cheeks , and watched as a flush spread down from face to neck to breasts , dying the tender peaks a deeper hue . |
| 15 | But if she is allowed to go at her own pace , without criticism , while she is dealing with the chaos within , you will find that her mood will gradually become more optimistic and her feelings of despair less frequent . |
| 16 | The principal obstacles to its success were : the economic climate in which the Geddes Report emphasized the low priority of education when financial restraint was inevitable ; the less than enthusiastic response from numerous LEAs in submitting their schemes ( they were allowed to proceed at their own pace without a universal appointed day ) ; the beginning of opposition from the National Union of Teachers and the labour movement in favour of ‘ Secondary Education for All ’ and a school-leaving age of 15 ; and , perhaps most significantly , the opposition of large sections of industry , including the Federation of British Industries . |
| 17 | There is no set length of time in which to achieve these either — each individual is allowed to work at their own pace , they are assessed when they are ready . |
| 18 | Now , I think that 's significant for us when we start looking at our own response to what we 're doing , both in objective two and in , more importantly in five B. |
| 19 | ‘ I do look at my own chart . |
| 20 | The mood by this time may be more depressed , as they start to look at their own problems as opposed to those of their partner . |
| 21 | In 1887 he was allowed to resign at his own request . |
| 22 | Looking back , Liz would try to remember the moment at which she had known rather than not known : she would have liked to have thought that she had known always , that there was no moment of shock , that knowledge had lain within her ( the all-knowing ) , that she had never truly been deceived , that at the very worst she had connived at her own deceit . |
| 23 | The publican had looked at her several times as she offered little posies of limp flowers to customers for a penny a time . |
| 24 | Meanwhile Queen Charlotte had asked to be the dedicatee of some of Mozart 's works which Leopold duly had engraved at his own expense ( K.10–15 , sonatas for keyboard and violin or flute and 'cello , published as op.III ) . |
| 25 | Erm Isaac Azimov writes er , rather amusingly about this , he says why did , why did Weismann bother , he said Weismann was Jewish , of course , Weismann knew that since time immemorial , er , Jewish little boys have been having their foreskins chopped off , Weismann only had to look at his own children , when they were born , to see that even Jewish little boys are born with foreskins . |
| 26 | She began working with ‘ handicapped ’ children and concluded that the methods which she had found most successful in dealing with feeble-minded children would be quite applicable to those who were normal and that ordinary schools needed the sort of transforma-tion she had accomplished at her own ‘ special ’ school . |
| 27 | But then Arthurs , who had called at his former home to visit his three children , lashed out at Mr Berry with a cricket bat and kicked him in the face , breaking his jaw in several places . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , some teachers claimed that the appraisal had produced little in the way of changes and some had difficulty in remembering quite what the adviser had proposed at their own feedback session . |
| 29 | Employees need to look at their own health and take regular exercise . |
| 30 | Some of the underlying assumptions of the discussion published below , are that before we begin to talk about an international/global unity/movement we need to look at our own situation in this country , at our own ’ political ’ community , which is international in terms of its make up , and the ways in which we operate or fail to operate together . |