Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Collapse breccias , however , are not related to any particular facies and potential reservoirs resulting from this process are most likely to be found around structural highs that became exposed at various times since , the Zechstein . |
| 2 | CHART star Carl Cox stopped performing at illegal raves after discovering that police had tapped his phone . |
| 3 | Corratts when he came to look at black lead mine at Conistone 2s. 6d . " |
| 4 | Now everything seemed to happen at top speed . |
| 5 | In this particular case , however , there was no such conformity ; the attacks seemed to occur at random intervals and in many differing situations . |
| 6 | All the animals began shouting at poor Anabelle . |
| 7 | Once it became clear that there was no possibility of raising the funds for the National Trust or English Heritage to take on the house , SAVE began to look at other options . |
| 8 | Under McLaren 's tutelage , the Pistols began playing at private parties and the occasional pub , then regularly at the 100 Club in Oxford Street , building up an excitable following and a reputation for contrived mayhem . |
| 9 | He hoped that I could undertake something in that line , especially in relation to Italy : for I had been giving him my impressions of the visit to Rome , which included encountering at close quarters , Mussolini , Count Ciano , and Edda his wife , and the by comparison rather puny Neville Chamberlain . |
| 10 | But I was as susceptible as any other golfer and loved to look at new equipment . |
| 11 | So he and Mr Skinner started pointing at Tory MPs , appearing to be arguing about precisely how many of them had fallen asleep during the Health Secretary 's speech . |
| 12 | Horowitz , who preferred travelling light , had suitcases with clothes packed deposited at various locations all over Europe . |
| 13 | It could limit or remove altogether certain rights presumed to exist at common law . |
| 14 | The body lay twisted at impossible angles . |
| 15 | One problem that has cropped up when trying to turn zoos into arks is that a lot of the exhibits are leftovers from the days when zoos were unashamedly places where people went to look at exotic animals . |
| 16 | Bradshaw was the only man I met to laugh at twenty-foot waves . |
| 17 | Nigel liked looking at glossy magazines . |
| 18 | Undoubtedly , comparatively sudden and very widespread events , such as major marine transgressions , did occur at various times during the earth 's history . |
| 19 | In one area Tanucci did aim at far-reaching change . |
| 20 | Mr Graham Crowley pictured working at windswept South Gare . |
| 21 | And he avoided borrowing at penal rates of interest . |
| 22 | His right foot had to remain at right angles to his leg . |
| 23 | In earlier times and into the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , many of the basic administrative and judicial activities were carried out through the arrangement of hundreds , hundred courts , and hundredal manors courts being held at hundred meeting places , where three men for every tithing or vill had to attend at three-weekly intervals . |
| 24 | They were also rooted in the past and in the nature of things — in the past , through the gifts of land , relics , and rights which they had received at various times ; in the nature of things through the physical separation of the British Isles from the rest of the world as an alter orbis . |
| 25 | How could she accuse the traditional education he had received at Welsh hands , when she herself was not entirely innocent ? |
| 26 | The Air Djibouti flight from Addis Ababa had stopped at Dire Dawa but had picked up no passengers . |
| 27 | He added that imports had to continue at competitive levels to safeguard jobs in the processing industry . |
| 28 | Their study shows that every $10 of interest payments per year and per person means 142 days less of life on average , had life expectancy continued to increase at pre-debt crisis rates . |
| 29 | She declined to say if the supermarket group had looked at alternative sites in the town . |
| 30 | Mr Banks , a member of the North-East Regional Schools Security Group and vice-chairman of the Association of Local Authority Risk Managers ( Alarm ) , said the county had looked at various ways of improving security in schools . |