Example sentences of "[verb] at the [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sat on the sofa and watched The Two Ronnies , laughing at the same jokes . |
| 2 | Mrs Campbell , who was 47 , had been sexually assaulted and strangled at the All Travellers Quest Guest House last week . |
| 3 | ALEXANDER ARROWSMITH continues our in-depth Koi series by looking at the many diseases which may affect Koi . |
| 4 | In 1946 in Milan , Werner met a young woman who was looking at the same things as he was . |
| 5 | Fire fighting over-ride controls should be positioned at the same locations as the appropriate sprinkler control valves ( see 3.6 ‘ Fixed Fire Fighting Equipment ’ ) . |
| 6 | There are various ways about that as there are with many road schemes er where there are structure plan policies for a particular scheme and there are arrows on key diagrams , there are many ways of getting from A to B er they are not er in terms of outer and inner , they are going from the same A to B. They they start and finish at the same locations , it is just a different way of getting from A to B. Which quite properly as I understand it would be a matter for debate er either at the local plan or if a planning application is made er earlier than that er then at a at a planning enquiry into the specific road proposal . |
| 7 | The corresponding component oscillations of the wave would be , as the physicists say , " in phase " , that is the crests and troughs would occur at the same instants for both components . |
| 8 | The green woodpecker will peck at the same ant-hills . |
| 9 | Thus we can examine any given sequence of events dramatically by seeing these events through different eyes , or we can look at the same events from a distance by framing our drama as an investigation or an enquiry : we , the participants in the drama , could be townspeople celebrating the history of our town , creating a pageant . |
| 10 | The key issue is not how to reduce the observer 's role to zero ( or even to an absolute minimum ) but simply how to render it at least as explicit , as clear , and as quantitatively specifiable as any other aspect of the system under study , so that other observers will know how to look at the same phenomena from the same perspective , should they care to do so . ’ |
| 11 | Do you know I ca n't remember the date , early part of March , early part of March , erm what she says at the moment is that er someone else from the college is going to Leicester next Wednesday when Helen 's going to Cardiff and this girl is then going to Cardiff when Helen should be going to Leicester , so Helen says , and she wants to look at the same subjects as what Helen does so Helen says that they 're gon na sort of go to the different colleges and compare notes when they come back from it so she might need n't want to go to Leicester |
| 12 | I think it 's just that he arrived at the same conclusions . |
| 13 | I used to work with them before I finished at the same YTS scheme . |
| 14 | They Those would evaporate at the same rates , although that one would be gone sooner because there 's less off it . |
| 15 | As I understand the Leeds position , they want what they call a lev a level playing field , or to be aiming at the same goalposts that they 've been aiming at for the last number of years . |
| 16 | She is staying at the same Gasthaus as you . |
| 17 | Nevertheless we have arrived at the same figures . |
| 18 | ‘ The fire exploded , spilling out on to the hearth , licking at the few drops on the floor , and in seconds Dame Frances was a blazing torch and your secret was safe . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't pay at the many markets which are held in Cleveland . |
| 20 | They laughed at the same things . |
| 21 | But from when she had been sixteen and had left the Dame School and stepped right into the home life above the shop , it had been borne into her that marriage was a humdrum affair : two people lived together , apparently happy , yet went their own ways , as shown by her parents ; they did n't think alike , yet they did n't argue ; they never laughed at the same things , nor did local or national events affect them in the same way . |
| 22 | He listened to what she said and they laughed at the same things . |
| 23 | They looked at the same things together as they walked through the ruins of Milan . |
| 24 | As I looked at the few stones that remained of the castle , I learned from the magazine that the Irish-built castle of the local kings , the O'Rourkes , had once towered over the local countryside . |
| 25 | She looked at the few cigarettes left in her pack and then impulsively threw them all out of the window . |
| 26 | The relevant employees , however , still worked at the same machines , doing the same kind of jobs . |
| 27 | The couple worked at the same tasks as their staff , they dressed in the same way , educated their children at the same schools and ate in the same canteen . |
| 28 | Rats received SOD ( recombinant human Cu , Zn-SOD ) and catalase at the same doses as previously described , by subcutaneous injection one hour before and three hours after indomethacin administration . |
| 29 | For U K P L C to succeed in the years ahead , we simply have to agree objectives , navigate by the same map , and aim at the same goals . |
| 30 | One has simply to glance at the few fragments of these Galatica ( 745 Jacoby ) — all quoted by Stephanus of Byzantium — to be persuaded that the author of the Galatica is a younger namesake of the great Eratosthenes — perhaps a descendant who noticed the lacunae in the geography of his predecessor . |