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

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1 A large number wish to continue working as long as they are fit and do not want to retire at the state pension age .
2 ‘ There is no definite plan … if you were going to , you would want to go at the top , and we are still growing . ’
3 My husband and I take turns to sit at the stall .
4 Through Clennam , Cavaletto goes to lodge at the Plornishes , enabling Mrs Plornish ( Sally , except in chap .
5 And I reckoned that if a star got stopped at the edge , I 'd be safe , what with my rocket and all . ’
6 Against these dramatic changes , we intend to remain at the centre as an effective resource for the voluntary sector , and an important bridge between the sector and others .
7 Despite intensive pressure to resign in the aftermath of the serious rioting of late April and early May — itself a product of the acquittal of those officers accused of assaulting King — and police failings which the unrest revealed [ see pp. 38856 ; 38894 ] , King continued to prevaricate until June 8 when he finally agreed to go at the end of the month .
8 For the Nonconformist minister as well as for the man in the pew , preaching lay at the heart of chapel life .
9 ‘ Most people tend to gather at the track and do the group session , without even stopping to think what the training effect is doing to their body , or how they are going to progress next week , or the week after . ’
10 Other work , such as McCabe and Mrs Miller , The Long Goodbye , and Nashville , although warmly received by the critics , failed to perform at the box office .
11 Hartley 's philosophy was in fact an early form of the twentieth-century scheme of mental association known as Behaviourism ( Pavlov 's dogs were taught to salivate at the sound of an electric bell ) , and if writing today he would presumably have compared the brain to a computer .
12 53 ( 1 ) ( c ) [ A ] disposition of an equitable interest or trust subsisting at the time of the disposition , must be in writing signed by the person disposing of the same , or by his agent thereunto lawfully authorised in writing or by will .
13 They would 've looked at the lights , I know .
14 NOW YOU 'VE stopped laughing at the idea of Kevin Costner in tights , you can have a chuckle at the cast rumoured to be lined up for his Robin Hood movie Prince Of Thieves — Danny DeVito ( above ) as Friar Tuck , either Patsy Kensit , Emily Lloyd or Imogen Stubbs as Maid Marian and as Robin 's big buddy Little John , John Goodman , who is reported to have been paid $750,000 just to stay interested in playing Fred Flintstone while the producers look for a script
15 They had arranged to meet at the Metropole Hotel .
16 Supposing , just supposing , that Mackay and Parsons had arranged to meet at the cottage .
17 Nevertheless , clauses 9.1 and 9.2 are dangerous as a tenant will prefer to know at the outset whether any defects affect the premises and the tenant 's solicitor should amend them as follows :
18 AT the age of 80 the Rev. Anthony Cunningham has jumped at the chance of a new job .
19 For four days the slimmer knows that all he or she has consumed at the end of each day is the 1,000 calories contained in the meals .
20 To the east , in Wollo , the Save the Children Fund is intensively feeding 700 out of the 3000 children it has registered at the Korem camp .
21 Together they started to laugh , the deep chuckle and the dry whispery cackle rolling past the monks , who returned with a start to their praying ; past Bridhe , Elizabeth , Marion , Hector and his young attendants , the women , clan officers , nephews , cousins , clansmen great and common , clustered weeping at the death-bed of the man who had been chief for the whole life-time of most of them .
22 She stopped struggling at the sound of her name , and his hand dropped from her face .
23 Junior environment minister found careering at the wheel after midnight during the Tory party conference in Bournemouth .
24 Terence was Jessica 's cousin , who had come sniffing at the Cultra house a couple of times early in Karen 's visit .
25 These oolites were probably deposited as part of the coastal sand-barrier complex as it prograded basinwards , before becoming stabilised at the edge of the platform .
26 Public sector workers tried to hit at the state with minimum disruption of services to consumers .
27 Boys 14 and 15 once tried to sit at the back of the coach but were rapidly sent to the front where , it was said , ‘ they always sat ’ .
28 Another accolade has fallen at the feet of Patricia Grant , already honoured with an OBE by the Queen for her efforts in building up Norfrost , the domestic freezer supplier which exports 75 per cent of the 5,000 units it produces each week .
29 The £4 million scheme to build 97 one to three bedroom homes for shared ownership is the second contract Wimpey has undertaken at the site for the North British Housing Association .
30 Not unless you want to sit at the table do you ?
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