Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Mildenhall in Suffolk in the spring of 1688 , a parson threatened to bring a Nonconformist minister before a JP for preaching a sermon , saying that it should cost him £20 ( the fine for preaching at a conventicle under the terms of the 1670 Act , whose operation had just been suspended ) . |
| 2 | Earlier in the week , after qualifying at a record speed of 482.892mph , Shelton burnt a piston in the No 12 cylinder . |
| 3 | I first got the idea of the crocheted styles after looking at a piece of fabric and thinking : ‘ I could do that with hair . ’ |
| 4 | TRANSPORT helpline clerk Bill Goulding was sacked after swearing at a caller and hurling his phone headset out of a window , an industrial tribunal heard yesterday . |
| 5 | Dog attack : RSPCA officer Albert Morland was savaged by a dog after calling at a home in Aigburth , Liverpool . |
| 6 | They fled after calling at a house where the vehicle was blocking a narrow country lane . |
| 7 | After advancing at a snail 's pace for many years , we suddenly find ourselves invited to participate in a Gadarene rush towards economic and political union . |
| 8 | Theodosiou was the first to go for stamping in the 72nd minute and Greg Downs followed after protesting at a penalty decision . |
| 9 | THE RESULT of a post-mortem examination on a man who died after collapsing at a rave party will not be known for another 48 hours , police said yesterday . |
| 10 | Joolz was cautioned by the police for swearing at a heckler who swore at her . |
| 11 | He was banished from the arena last month when his club , Guildford , lost at home to Leicester , for swearing at a referee . |
| 12 | The 22-year-old striker , a £20,000 capture from non-League Burton Albion , scored the 48th-minute winner that sunk Charlton , who had striker Garry Nelson sent off in the 69th minute for swearing at a linesman . |
| 13 | MIKE Small was branded ‘ stupid ’ by furious boss Billy Bonds after being sent off for swearing at a linesman at Oakwell yesterday . |
| 14 | The youngster 's display was the only plus in a 2–1 defeat ; Ellison missed a penalty when the scores were level , and Mitch Cook was sent off for swearing at a linesman ironically Pickering scored his first goal for the club when Quakers were down to ten men . |
| 15 | They can bring , through their training and experience , particular and specified ways of looking at a child 's problem . |
| 16 | FO … you acquire the … skill , with practice , of looking at a discharge and being able to say visually in many cases , that there 's things like suspended solids — that it is going to be outside consent ; it is clear to you that sample is going to be outside . |
| 17 | Comparison of illustrations of the same picture in several publications will demonstrate this truism , while the best test of looking at a reproduction in front of the picture itself can be a disheartening experience . |
| 18 | There is no one way of looking at a sculpture by Leinberger and similarly there is no one angle or distance from which we see it anything like whole , but there is something like a normal sequence of approach . |
| 19 | There are many different ways of looking at a town for the first time . |
| 20 | One way of looking at a site is to examine its stratigraphy — the sequence of layers that have been laid down one on top of another to form the site itself . |
| 21 | Another way of looking at a site is to concentrate on its plan , and to see how this changes with time . |
| 22 | So with logs , if you can draw a picture and Do n't just sort of look at a picture in a book there 's a graph of Y equals log X. Do it yourself . |
| 23 | More than 7,000 young men spent time at American air bases in Alabama , Georgia , Florida and South Carolina , learning the arts of flying at a time when Britain was desperately short of qualified pilots . |
| 24 | Hart was a great master printer and , as he had said of Charles , third Earl Stanhope [ q.v. ] , ‘ he did solid good to the Art of Printing at a time when help was sorely needed ’ ( Hart , Charles , Earl Stanhope , and the Oxford University Press , 1896 ) . |
| 25 | After five minutes of staring at a woodblock of a hero , who looked remarkably like Marc himself , chopping his way through the briar thicket towards the sleeping princess , Sarella slipped the book back in its place and continued her explorations . |
| 26 | One was the impact of information and transport technologies on lowering the real costs — and risks — of managing at a distance . |
| 27 | This provides a priority list , in terms of EVs , as one factor in the decision making process of arriving at a portfolio of R&D projects . |
| 28 | This provides a priority list , in terms of EVs , as one factor in the decision making process of arriving at a portfolio of R&D projects . |
| 29 | Garland has argued that the reason why the early , biological positivists had the extraordinary ambition of arriving at a theory of the causes of crime where both the theory and the category of behaviour it was explaining had nothing to do with the criminal law , was that they were also engaged in a struggle to assert themselves as a ‘ new ’ profession of penal experts against the ‘ old ’ , legal profession . |
| 30 | We want to know this position after many repeats of the process — that is , we want to know the probability of arriving at a point within the range ( -n , n ) . |