Example sentences of "[vb base] at the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pets , he just wants to say hello , you knock at the door and this Afghan wolfhound is playing in the back there , take it in the kitchen and they say to you he only wants to say hello , that 's right |
| 2 | I said , people that knock at the door and say , the taxi 's ready the taxi man does n't come and do it . |
| 3 | She was working on the two o'clock to ten o'clock shift at the factory and on the Tuesday morning was up early to do some ironing , then she began to prepare the midday meal for herself and her mother and father , and Aunt Carrie who was visiting them . |
| 4 | Can I just make a point this thing about salary because I know we ca n't people we want at the salary and all the rest of it but then there 's , if we 're go if that 's the s if we 're now saying that that 's the salary for the job and there 's no no way in my conscience rests clear really that we should just pay that to one person |
| 5 | Right they 're getting everything they want at the moment because erm er ease the situation . |
| 6 | At the same time come off your toes , bend at the waist so you end up bent forward with your hands almost touching the ground . |
| 7 | We we well we 'd love to be able to get get on with our job and er wi with far less interference than we receive at the moment but er when government insists on er on interfering to the extent it does an and there have been well I 've been reading recently so something like five hundred new powers the Education Secretary has given himself in the in over the last last few years . |
| 8 | I saw Mr Callaghan come down the steps of his plane , stop at the foot and greet the throng of journalists waiting on the tarmac to question him about the current discontents . |
| 9 | Once in Kentish Town , we stop at the shop and Crilly buys me a carton of food : soup and cheese and biscuits and cereal , chocolate and bread and ham and whatever else takes my fancy . |
| 10 | The answers have still to be provided , but six months on Mota and her coach/boyfriend Joś Pedrosa sit happily in their holiday home just outside Oporto and chuckle at the thought that her racing career is in crisis . |
| 11 | In the foreground , sea waves break at the temple- or city-gates . |
| 12 | At home I have recently seen an otherwise robust learning till from a reputable toy manufacturer , a sewing box and a tool box , all break at the pivot or hinge . |
| 13 | The important points to remember are that pipe runs from the hot water cylinder should be kept as short and as direct as possible to avoid heat loss — and a long wait at the tap before hot water arrives . |
| 14 | But I'Il wait at the quarry until Masklin comes back . |
| 15 | And we look at the slip and we think oh yeah , |
| 16 | look at the person or look away |
| 17 | Look at the question and then just close the book and say right I 'm going to try and solve this equation . |
| 18 | I 'm sure it 's not unusual : you look at the title or the cover and you know all about it . |
| 19 | Just look at the success that German Shepherd breeders had when they methodically examined their breeding stock and bred from those with the best hips . |
| 20 | Look at the agenda and your personal notes from the staff meetings for the past half-term . |
| 21 | Now I do n't care what people say : at times I look at the child and I am so happy I ca n't sleep at night . |
| 22 | Just look at the way that fashion 's going . |
| 23 | However , just look at the way that refereeing has influenced certain facets of the international game . |
| 24 | If you have a majority of ticks here , you appreciate and enjoy the natural world , but you also look at the way that animals and plants can serve human beings . |
| 25 | Paul writes that he is ‘ in ’ God — and as we look at the way that he wrote other letters , it is clear that he made a great effort to maintain that special relationship . |
| 26 | Also if you look at the way that the fox is described . |
| 27 | Tomorrow we look at the way that 's done . |
| 28 | In a later age the policy was taken up at Manchester United by Sir Matt Busby , who wrote : ‘ Look at the top when analysing clubs who have lasting success and there you will find the original cause of the happy effect . |
| 29 | The idea of the tour is so that they can actually er listen to it , but they can turn it off whenever they want and they can use their guide book to see what is in each room and if you look at the guidebook as we go round , you will find that that the things are illustrated , you know the pot . |
| 30 | In this chapter we now look at the behaviour and properties of the three states of matter . |