Example sentences of "[vb base] [art] [noun] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both are run from the top : party headquarters pick the candidates at election time , control the patronage , take no nonsense from the constituencies . |
| 2 | TV host 's oscars raise the stakes at auction |
| 3 | Whereas " animal familiarization " is now only a fading memory in European folklore , it is still common in the islands , and there are shamans who claim regularly to enter the bodies of creatures to stalk the woods and fly the air at night . |
| 4 | wet the bed at night . |
| 5 | probation officer with the state in Texas and they decide they want a trial at monitoring and they ask if I would be interested and so we begin the programme , the first in-house operative programme in Texas , and we set up our programme from scratch and started just kind of working on trial and error trying to make the thing worked . |
| 6 | I should think you want a rest at Christmas like anybody else . " |
| 7 | Other food aid agencies put the total at risk from starvation in Africa as a whole at between 10,000,000 and 20,000,000 . |
| 8 | put the candidate at ease , are not aggressive and do not play silly games ; |
| 9 | IRAQ threatened yesterday to send fighters to patrol its border with Iran , but British and American officials said that would violate the terms of the Gulf war ceasefire and put the aircraft at risk of being shot down by the allies . |
| 10 | " And you should have seen 'em kill the rats at haymaking time , young Bruce . |
| 11 | The 2,800 election notices from Pompeii , hand-painted in red on house walls , show the system at work ( fine example in the London ‘ Rediscovering Pompeii ’ exhibition ) . |
| 12 | This is the disc of light you see if you hold the binoculars at arm 's length and look through them . |
| 13 | He must have looked disbelieving , because she went on , ‘ I walk a lot at night , on my own . |
| 14 | Mr Balladur and his ministers may have made soothing noises abroad over GATT , but they show no signs at home of abandoning the previous government 's intransigence . |
| 15 | It should be borne in mind , however , that the modules which constitute the award are merely an indication of the expected level of competence to be demonstrated by office workers who hold a qualification at Level I and II . |
| 16 | Picture an enzyme at work Guy Riddihough |
| 17 | When they was doing the decorating and that and a lock went wrong oh take it down to Dick and er they 'd bring it and whatever I was doing , however important it was , just because they 'd be finish the decorating at night and they wanted to put the lock back , I 'd drop what I was doing and do this for them . |
| 18 | Browse at leisure , watch the potters at work |
| 19 | Come to the Engineering Hall of the Museum and watch the sculptor at work . |
| 20 | Clarks ' system will draw details , change colours , experiment with textures and vary the shading at will . |
| 21 | A stem and rather humourless vicar 's wife angrily rejected the offer of morning newspapers , admonishing the bemused Hilary with ‘ I only read the psalms at breakfast ’ — there were angry looks all round . |
| 22 | If you read the report at paragraph seventy , you 'll see that it has an investment value in the region of eight million pounds , it 's only worth forty million if you kill all the tenants overnight , which is rather drastic , vacant possession in other words . |
| 23 | ( b ) An input/output operation is called for ; for example , transfer the character at store address X to the typewriter and print it , or read the next character punched on a piece of paper tape and transfer it to the store , to be deposited at address X. |
| 24 | On the Derwent Ings in Yorkshire , the subdivision of the land into small hay plots and the subsequent pasturing were administered by a court leet , which annually appointed ‘ Ings Masters ’ , who still manage the pastures at East Cottingwith and Newton . |
| 25 | I welcome the fact that the Secretary of State is getting in practice and asking the questions to which I give the answers at Question Time , as it is a situation to which he shall have to become accustomed . |
| 26 | Managers often view a job at Shell , where they are given plenty of decisions to make early on in their career , as an alternative to taking an MBA . |
| 27 | In most psychiatric units it is now usually considered inappropriate to have one member of staff constantly accompany a patient at risk . |
| 28 | Prospective volunteers must provide references from local animal organisations and face an interview at home . |
| 29 | ‘ In many ways , I remain a child at heart , Graham , ’ Sir Daniel said . |
| 30 | Flower pot : raise a titter at teatime with this fun teapot , £7.65 , from Spoils Kitchen Reject Shops ( 0728 603731 for stockists ) |