Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] at some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children are not unfamiliar with situations in which they tell , or are told , what someone else said or thought ; or in which they tell what they themselves said or thought at some point in the past or think at the time of speaking . |
| 2 | In which case are Upehull and Upsall related , the ‘ s ’ having been introduced by scribal error or misreading at some stage , or is the later form a name given to a family coming originally from Uppsala in Sweden ? |
| 3 | Now and then he got hold of a book , or looked at some prints , or chatted with a local worthy , but it was a hard life and they were in narrow circumstances . |
| 4 | We were on a lonely stretch of road just outside London : it was late in the afternoon , darkness was about to fall and we were arguing about whether we should hurry on to the city or stay at some roadside tavern for the night . |
| 5 | Many of those at the foot of the scale , whose substance was equalled by that of superior labourers , must have occupied very small holdings , and had to eke out a livelihood with occasional labouring or working at some by-employment ; they have aptly been termed ‘ cottage farmers ’ . |
| 6 | This subject is raised again and treated at some length in a more empirical context in chapter 7 . |
| 7 | And I 've got ta try and look at some poetry . |
| 8 | It does not matter why a State has failed to become a party to a treaty , or whether it is eligible to become a party and intends at some time to do so . |
| 9 | Sabine welcomed Marie-Christine 's suggestion that they should take their coffee up to her room , and look at some furniture catalogues . |
| 10 | I too will treat this group of writers as ‘ structuralists ’ and look at some aspects of their work to show how it has created an object for analysis that is relevant to the empirical tasks of the sociology of knowledge . |
| 11 | Some document that erm was produced and lost at some point or . |
| 12 | Even in the absence of information about place and time of original utterance , even in the absence of information about the speaker / writer and his intended recipient , it is often possible to reconstruct at least some part of the physical context and to arrive at some interpretation of the text . |
| 13 | On a more general note we MUST rationalize our charging policy or add-on services — CAL , CDROM , Online — and aim at some sort of consistency . |
| 14 | If you do n't you could use an A four pad building up a picture of the guy and trying at some time |
| 15 | Mr Havel , who has a genius for pinpointing the absurd , smiled gently and sipped at some mineral water . |
| 16 | Naturally , the manager had more details to offer : the car hired had been a red Cavalier , Registration H 106 XMT ; it had been hired at 1.45 p.m. and returned at some time after the offices had closed at 6.30 p.m. , with the keys pushed through the special letter-box , as requested . |