Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after 25 years loyal service with the RAF , the time has come to look at a more modern replacement . |
| 2 | But Strasbourg 's anti-nicotine brigade has won a consolation prize : the health and social-affairs commissioner , Mrs Vasso Papandreou , has promised to look at a ban in the future . |
| 3 | Her body was found in a hall of residence only hours after she 'd arrived to teach at a summer school of the Open University … today courses continued despite the tragedy … |
| 4 | Packed with roots and culture discourse ( white people who think they 're black , dreadlocks , the limitations of rap as a revolutionary force ) , Vibe also delivers moody profiles of the impeccably hardcore ( Naughty By Nature , Super Cat ) alongside bankable acts a studio executive might have heard mentioned at a funky party ( Bobby Brown , LL Cool J ) . |
| 5 | Both partners may have tried to talk at a more intimate level but found that the other one was not listening . |
| 6 | They had arranged to meet at a pub in Soho , not far from Helen 's flat . |
| 7 | Jim had decided to stay at a hotel there till his car was mended . |
| 8 | What they do , I mean just play a game , it 's just a ga it 's a it 's a game , like sort of Simon says , try and catch them out in things , you 'll say right , now you 've got to point at a window , say , and then you have to point at , and you can get them all doing it , you |
| 9 | To the massed spectators in the stands , flung in an instant from joyous acclaim of a Royal winner to horrified , dumbfounded silence , Devon Loch had seemed to leap at an imaginary obstacle before slithering to the ground and skidding along to a halt , the momentum throwing Francis up on to the horse 's neck . |
| 10 | He had gone to stay at a monastery and somehow a misunderstanding arose and he was asked if he had been baptised . |
| 11 | Born in Liberia , Jackson had learned printing at a mission school . |
| 12 | Oblivious of the equivocal nature of her remarks , Gwendolen was hoping that Angelina , with whom Sir Thomas had chosen to sit at a table for two only , would take due note of her omission of the ‘ sir ’ . |
| 13 | Now that Hearts have decided to remain at a re-developed Tynecastle , Gulliver has resigned from the board . |
| 14 | And even in this conformity the detectives are moving away from the uniform policeman 's concept of correct dress , for they are wearing ‘ civvy ’ clothing like those despised outsiders they have learned to keep at a distance . |
| 15 | They have been created because we have chosen to look at a situation in a certain way or we have chosen to treat as a problem something which is merely a change . |