Example sentences of "[verb] at [noun] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOLLOWERS of Clive Brittain are once again marvelling at bookmakers ' largesse over their assessment of tomorrow 's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe . |
| 2 | Alternatives would be offered in the curriculum plan but there would also be opportunity for many other alternatives hopefully designed at teachers ' workshops . |
| 3 | They then knock at solicitors ' doors , presenting their credentials and asking if there is a vacancy for an articled clerk . |
| 4 | The next section looks at respondents ' views of the care given to people in residential and nursing homes and the conditions there . |
| 5 | This chapter has offered a summary of what is more or less evident when one looks at teachers ' lives today . |
| 6 | Cheques presented at parents ' night |
| 7 | He did n't always win , and occasionally he came a cropper — just as he 'd done at Masons ' gates a few days before . |
| 8 | An article by him advocating a national Nonconformist congress appeared in Hughes ' Methodist Times on 20 February 1890 and was written at Hughes ' request . |
| 9 | If you can not afford the furniture or floorcovering you want , further trips to shops or markets , or looking at suppliers ' catalogues , should give you more inspiration . |
| 10 | ‘ I hope some of the senior players are looking at Flatts ' attitude . |
| 11 | I can assure readers that particular problem will not happen again , all parties involved will be contacted throughout the distribution process until it arrives at members ' addresses . |
| 12 | In Kenya , for example , interesting and original booklets on local history are being prepared at teachers ' centres , supported in some cases by collections of traditional artefacts . |
| 13 | Holy Trinity Trendlewood , founded a week ago , is a church without walls , meeting at parishioners ' homes on weekday evenings , and in the dining lounge of the Old Farmhouse on Sundays . |
| 14 | The hunt was met at Parks ' Lodge from where , at this time of year provided the scent was good , it was inevitably a red letter day . |
| 15 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |
| 16 | Before we look at students ' construction of science , it is important to stress that students ' decision to study science was not merely a consequence of their preferring it to other subjects , or being good at it , but the result of schooling and family influences . |
| 17 | Wellings , will be sold at Phillips ' Winchester saleroom on Sept 17 , the sale starting at 11 am . |
| 18 | It has been produced at Whitbreads ' Flowers Brewery in Cheltenham , using hops from Czechoslovakia . |
| 19 | Now I want to look at teachers ' lives from a particular point of view. : that what our hypothetical observer is actually witnessing is people coping , in a great variety of ways , with stress . |
| 20 | Given that the meaning of ‘ arts ’ and ‘ science ’ is dependent on the differences between them , it is necessary to look at scientists ' perceptions of the arts , and vice versa . |
| 21 | If it begins from the assumption of difference and then adduces literacy as the explanation , the argument is open to the same criticism that Goody himself levels at Lévi-Strauss ' dualism ; if , on the other hand , it begins from the assumption that literacy is the crucial source of difference and that the mental differences follow from this , then it is beginning from the very assumption that it claims to be setting out to prove . |
| 22 | What might happen when eventually they arrived at Wrens ' Quarters , Ardneavie , mattered little . |
| 23 | In pre-automobile days , a disembodied pair of hairy hands would tear at horses ' manes , frightening them and causing them to rear . |
| 24 | In May 1960 more talks began at leaders ' levels in Paris , with Eisenhower anxious to play the role of peacemaker in his last year in office , but the conference collapsed when a US spy aircraft was shot down over the USSR . |
| 25 | In so doing , she encapsulates the polarity that pulls female artists today : from one magnetic field , the radical difference of the female body tugs at artists ' imaginations , while from the opposite pole , the crucial determining role of material and cultural circumstances cancels that radical difference in its foundations and essence and introduces fluctuating criteria . |
| 26 | He borrowed a guitar half-way through the band 's set at Leeds ' Astoria Centre and announced to the audience : ‘ This one might sound a bit strange , the dots on the neck are in a different place . ’ |
| 27 | A SEA-LIFE centre is trying to cure a kinky fish of staring at girls ' breasts . |
| 28 | Day or weekend courses are run at clients ' premises and include team tactics , individual techniques , training programmes and video analysis . |
| 29 | They ‘ had a motor car placed at their disposal … and planned to arrive at Dennis ' home [ at Ancaster , near Sleaford ] at 9.30 , so as to have a glass that cheers , and then talk until midnight , the earliest time for signing . |
| 30 | Meals were enlivened by readings or poetry recited or chanted at Charles ' command . |