Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [noun] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came to visit Streatlam to look at the horses and I thought what a very handsome woman she was . |
| 2 | She turned to find Piers staring at her , and she suddenly said , ‘ Penny for them . ’ |
| 3 | In a marked change of tone from the hard-line anti-inflation communiqués of recent years , the declaration expressed concern about fast-rising unemployment in the West and pledged to adopt policies aimed at job creation . |
| 4 | The meeting failed to adopt measures aimed at providing financial assistance to the newly-independent republics of the former Soviet Union , including the creation of a " stabilization fund " to underpin the Russian rouble . |
| 5 | ‘ Someone needed to stop Pendero winning at all costs . |
| 6 | He , the laibon , had heard Fahfakhs shouting at the accused man in the cells at Ewaso Narok police post before he was taken to the coast . |
| 7 | Wallace , who had broken training to help at the birth of a foal on Tuesday at her Devon farm , faded near the end after previously looking strong throughout . |
| 8 | Hari felt a rush of disappointment , she had expected Lewis to jump at the chance of earning some money but it seemed he was reluctant to take her venture seriously . |
| 9 | She had noticed men leering at her and whispering to each other with dirty grins on their faces . |
| 10 | The coat felt insufferably hot , she thought she had seen people looking at the coat with amusement , but there was nothing she could do . |
| 11 | Often she had seen David looking at her son , a look that was filled with longing and , sadly , a measure of envy . |
| 12 | These were in no way representative of the national picture , since relatively few authorities had adopted care programming at the outset of our enquiry . |
| 13 | Up to the end of 1990 , 313 women had had endometriosis diagnosed at laparoscopy ( 41 ) or laparotomy ( 272 ) . |
| 14 | She understood then that if she had had leisure to listen at the right moment , she might have heard the faint , suggestive sounds of a third presence . |
| 15 | It was a palatable version of the truth , and one she had spent years working at believing . |
| 16 | In the autumn of 1915 the Government had assumed powers to requisition at fixed prices all cereal products ; in 1916 these powers were extended to sugar , milk and eggs , but only limited use was made of them . |
| 17 | When the last client had gone Sophie looked at the time . |
| 18 | He had been in charge of the Recorder Club ; he had taken boys sailing at Toddbrook and Salcome ; he taught so-called " dead " languages but made them live : quieter and gentler pursuits than many , no doubt , but performed with enthusiasm and commitment . |
| 19 | On Yeltsin 's initiative , representatives of the Russian Federation , Byelorussia , Kazakhstan and the Ukraine on Feb. 4 had begun talks aimed at establishing what would be in effect an alternative union to that proposed in the draft Union Treaty . |
| 20 | The Finance and Planning Minister , Saifur Rahman , said on Aug. 1 that the government intended to strengthen measures aimed at boosting private enterprise [ see p. 38289 ] . |
| 21 | The British Medical Association refused to consider family planning at its meetings from 1912 to 1928 , considering it to be tainted by association with vice and radicalism . |
| 22 | Erm if you wanted to get time to look at the chart to colour the planets the right colour that 's up to you . |
| 23 | VXM 's PAX-1 range of software tools for networked parallel processing based upon the Linda distributed processing protocols developed at Yale University have been dropped . |