Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony Brough ( the Principal ) and I sat at High Table , but it was very democratic because the students also took it in turns to sit at High Table — and to be invited to the Principal 's office for pre-dinner drinks ! |
| 2 | We suggest you find out where your newly-acquired friends and acquaintances tend to gather at different times of the day . |
| 3 | It means that the stressed syllables in an utterance tend to come at regular intervals with a varying number of less stressed syllables in between . |
| 4 | I want to look at new charges for home care and day care and transportation services for disabled people . |
| 5 | Interest cover , for example , would not be so appropriate — the shareholder would be more interested in dividends and may need to look at alternative investment opportunities as well as the possibility of selling their shares at this stage given the results of Belper . |
| 6 | The LEA will need to look at other routes as well . |
| 7 | Holding your breath builds up tension and shallow breathing denies your body the oxygen it needs to function at maximum efficiency . |
| 8 | Finally , an evaluation which was constrained to look at stated objectives alone would forego opportunities to develop theoretical and empirical models which have general application over and above the particular initiative under scrutiny . |
| 9 | The Scouts had hellfired crowded transport sledges that slid at speed down glossy oiled vitrodur channels , diving from transit stations , canting along branch-lines , corkscrewing , swooping up to come to rest at other destinations … |
| 10 | The murderer has to wink at other children in the room . |
| 11 | The Oxford Wordpower Dictionary heads the list this year and is designed to compete at intermediate level with the Longman Active Study and Cobuild Students Dictionary . |
| 12 | Troops from both sides would be expected to assemble at predetermined points around the country within one month of the ratification of the treaty ; they would surrender their weapons to UN monitors within six months . |
| 13 | Above this line standard uplifts for selling expenses and budgeted profit are added to arrive at average selling price . |
| 14 | Above this line standard uplifts for selling expenses and budgeted profit are added to arrive at average selling price . |
| 15 | Such changes occurred most commonly when women were initially booked to deliver at general practitioner hospitals : 40% of them were delivered at a consultant unit . |
| 16 | Such processes will be temperature-and-time-dependent and so the uniform stress assumption would be expected to fail at low temperatures and the composite elastic moduli to approach the ( Voigt ) upper-bound values . |
| 17 | Both documents seek to identify the skills and understandings which their respective subjects should seek to achieve at different stages of schooling . |
| 18 | And then I know full well that I 'm well within the guidelines of not going over the thirteen amp that this is designed to operate at maximum efficiency and safety . |
| 19 | As part of the same struggle against destitution , meetings were organised to protest at increasing food prices and profiteering ; a large attendance at Canning Town Public Hall heard Sylvia Pankhurst and resolved to campaign for government price controls and votes for women ( SE 27 February 15 ) . |
| 20 | A lemming ( given his suicidal tendencies for giving away games last year ) A bat Any bird ( as they all tend to flap at thin air ) |
| 21 | Corratts when he came to look at black lead mine at Conistone 2s. 6d . " |
| 22 | If one assumes that any paddler runs a risk of shoulder damage when the shoulder angle is forced beyond 180 degrees , then a canoeist can choose to paddle at high risk with an arm position close to the limit or at low risk . |
| 23 | Some effort is being made to look at general issues such as the effect of industrial organisation and firm size on standards and the form and value of published statistics . |
| 24 | Council officers have been instructed to look at new ways of increasing access to town for disabled motorists . |
| 25 | Billy Crystal has a perfect wife and beautiful daughter but feels rattrapped trying to support them , Daniel Stern is having an affair with a teenage supermarket assistant and has been reduced to pretending to sleep at social gatherings in order to avoid his nagging wife , and womanising Bruno Kirby has finally tied the knot with a glamorous bimbo half his age ( ‘ soon he 'll be dating sperm ’ , observes Crystal ) and agonises over whether he can stay faithful to her . |
| 26 | Now everything seemed to happen at top speed . |
| 27 | Safeway have produced the pick of the crop with their Party Trays — a range of food platters individually prepared to order at in-store delicatessens . |
| 28 | In this particular case , however , there was no such conformity ; the attacks seemed to occur at random intervals and in many differing situations . |
| 29 | The Milan Congress gave impetus to those who favoured the Pure Oral method to agitate for the inclusion of education of the deaf in the proposed Royal Commission that was to be formed to look at educational provision for the blind in Britain , on the grounds that the Education Acts of the 1870s had ignored educational provision for the deaf and dumb . |
| 30 | Erm conversely I I think we would want to look at individual proposals as they as they came forward , and see what landscaping proposals they have and er how they intend to mitigate any perhaps adverse er landscape er implications . |