Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corratts when he came to look at black lead mine at Conistone 2s. 6d . " |
| 2 | Now everything seemed to happen at top speed . |
| 3 | In this particular case , however , there was no such conformity ; the attacks seemed to occur at random intervals and in many differing situations . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But I was as susceptible as any other golfer and loved to look at new equipment . |
| 6 | It could limit or remove altogether certain rights presumed to exist at common law . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Bradshaw was the only man I met to laugh at twenty-foot waves . |
| 9 | His right foot had to remain at right angles to his leg . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He added that imports had to continue at competitive levels to safeguard jobs in the processing industry . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The fog-horn , its sound now muffled by the houses , continued to bleat at regular intervals . |
| 14 | The mist still limited visibility to less than a hundred yards and the fog-horn continued to blare at regular intervals . |
| 15 | IN AN entry of over 1,000 cattle at McClelland 's Mart , Ballyclare , animals continued to sell at exceptional rates although prices slightly eased on the previous week . |
| 16 | The steps led downwards , there were crumbling stone walls , so that they had to clutch at narrow ropes sunk into the wall at intervals . |
| 17 | A case in point was a series of devastating strikes that Finniston had to weather at British Steel in 1974 . |
| 18 | Not long after this , Lewis and Williams met in London , as they continued to do at irregular intervals for the next three years . |
| 19 | To keep clear of British radar and stay undetected , the bombers had to fly at low level and so never attained the necessary height . |
| 20 | In the event , we had to return at separate times and as the friend , Mr. Robin Townsend , was to cross first , he took the plastic ticket and we agreed he would arrange to have the ticket divided , and leave my part at your Ostend office . |
| 21 | I think that er one of the things that we had to examine at national level er and this was done erm after I became a full time officer , erm there 'd usually be a procedure in the national agreement er whereby first of all if we registered failure to agree at domestic level , erm with the management , the next stage was to draw in the district secretary . |
| 22 | I HAVE always had a clear idea of what I hoped to achieve at certain points in my life , which has given me a sense of direction . |
| 23 | Mr Stitt pointed out that mountain accidents tended to happen at similar times — during hard winter conditions , at weekends or in holiday periods . |