Example sentences of "[be] [verb] at [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haverford asked on the children 's behalf , but they had already found it , scampering away through the display of giant dolls , plastic picnic tables , local cheese and wine , and returned resentful at having been glowered at by the resident guardian because they had n't understood the purpose of her saucer of lire . |
| 2 | Many of these aspects are looked at in the following chapters . |
| 3 | The report that hon. Members receive and that the public pick up outside would have been looked at from the point of view of the client , the promoter and the public interest . |
| 4 | I I I I know er it 's been looked at by the D T I but has it been looked at by the treasury itself ? |
| 5 | I I I I know er it 's been looked at by the D T I but has it been looked at by the treasury itself ? |
| 6 | After a one-minute search , he noticed the National Geographic magazine which he had been looking at with the teacher earlier in the day . |
| 7 | I must know how , I 've been looking at at the . |
| 8 | Miranda taller , with her bushy hair and colouring that the Italians whose paintings she 'd been looking at in the Louvre rendered by priming the canvas with a copper-based green paint , creating a complexion that draws light in rather than gives it out ; Xanthe beside her with her candy radiance of pink and gold , and rounder too , more neatly assembled , wrist to hand , neck to shoulders , ankle to foot . |
| 9 | What have you been looking at in the maths . |
| 10 | The horror and the pain of it are hinted at in the progression , ‘ your son , your only son , whom you love , Isaac ’ ( this is the order in the Hebrew ) . |
| 11 | My old friend Fred Emery , who presented the programme from the Falklands , told us — and I have confirmed this from other sources — that the Cabinet is struggling to decide whether to build a new airstrip alongside Stanley 's existing facilities or , as has been hinted at in the Commons , on an entirely new site . |
| 12 | Gqozo 's claim that his troops had been shot at by the demonstrators ( ballistics evidence showed that the one dead Ciskei soldier was shot by his fellow soldiers ) . |
| 13 | erm it 's difficult to say , but erm again that 's something they 're looking at over the next couple of weeks , but perhaps along last year 's lines — they should n't really be any higher than last year . |
| 14 | But nearly all its distinctive features may be exhibited in a place where population and wealth are both growing , provided they are growing at about the same rate , and there is no scarcity of land : and provided also the methods of production and the conditions of trade change but little ; and above all , where the character of man himself is a constant quantity . |
| 15 | Some of them have been got at by the plant-breeders and bear no resemblance to the species or variety originally discovered ; some remain the same , being already sufficiently beautiful or useful . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The sport is not new to Teesside where the game was known to have been played at about the turn of the century on six lawns at Albert Park , Middlesbrough until it was pushed out by tennis . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , this expectation has been arrived at without the agreement of the partners involved — which is to say , for the most part , Japan . |
| 19 | An understanding had been arrived at with the Danish Tourist Board that nothing of the fabric or the furnishings and fittings in either the Tuscan Villa or The Tamarisks should be altered ; the houses had been complete works of art when they were taken over and were to be respected as such . |
| 20 | The following points have been arrived at with the agreement of Dr Will : |
| 21 | Mr. Teddy Taylor : To ask the Lord President of the Council if he will take steps to ensure that European documents are considered by the House of Commons before a common position has been arrived at by the Council of Ministers ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 22 | The decision was rendered somewhat easier by the fact that a similar conclusion had already been arrived at in the law of wills : a murderer can not take under his victim 's will . |
| 23 | His/her only consolation may be that most of his/her friends will soon be those who are failing at about the same level as he/she is . |
| 24 | there was general consensus among Scottish drivers that current speed limits are set at about the right level . |
| 25 | What we are staring at for the moment is a ‘ permanent ’ Conservative ascendancy , rooted in the Thatcher ‘ revolution ’ and the sea-change in the political culture that has been in progress throughout the eighties . |
| 26 | The p0·75 and p0·875 points are arrived at in the same way . |
| 27 | The p0.75 and p0.875 points are arrived at in the same way . |
| 28 | Purposive sampling , for example , could not be effectively done in advance of interviewing , since significant others could only be guessed at without the informant furnishing more detailed information . |
| 29 | This can already be guessed at from the demonic intensity of his most famous recordings , and it is confirmed by first-hand reports . |
| 30 | Football League spokesman Ian Cotton admitted : ‘ The competition will be looked at at the end of the season . ’ |