Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small team of business experts have been gathered together to look at the ways new markets and business prospects can be fully exploited . |
| 2 | If you are not disciplined enough to arrive at the agency as though dressed for work you may not be taken on to the books . |
| 3 | Caught still standing at the window , Meg 's scattered treasure , her , now lost forever , blown wits . |
| 4 | With an equaliser the priority , the Scots were caught embarrassingly exposed at the back by Ferreri 's sweeping ball and Cantona found scoring a joyous simplicity . |
| 5 | By contrast , another tall reputation had looked fully justified at the start of the afternoon when Nashwan 's half-brother Mukddaam , survived a stewards ' inquiry after beating 18 rivals convincingly on his racecourse debut to become favourite for the Derby at 16-1 with William Hill . |
| 6 | What 's happening to the local government this time of the democracy and they have been savagely attacked savagely attacked at the locally controlled Labour councils . |
| 7 | Microwave background detectors overlap in wavelength with millimetre waves and radio , but are designed specifically to look at the all-sky background emitted by gas soon after the big bang . |
| 8 | ‘ That depends , ’ Marianne purred silkily , and Shae was hard pressed not to shudder at the malicious pleasure in the other woman 's green eyes . |
| 9 | Here is this man , never previously seen doing his public duty , always seen merely roaring at the Labour Party or being interviewed like any tuppeny-ha'penny minister , now occupying the despatch-box which is the only site that gives credibility to his claim to be a prime-minister-in-waiting . |
| 10 | It made him feel grown up sitting at the same table as real university students ; engineers and agricultural science students , law or medicine , they had all sat and studied around the Hegarty dining table while young Frank was working for his Intermediate and his Leaving Certificate . |
| 11 | You get fed up working at the cos you have no day in it . |
| 12 | The Tsar presides over an assembly made up predominantly of landowners , seen here standing at a respectful distance , and leading members of the Church 's hierarchy , seated at the front |
| 13 | Er no I think it wa I think it was our , our mistake er , there was there were sixteen of us there and seven of us had sort of clubbed together looked at the menu and it 's it 's fifteen ninety five , to , the rich main course banquet |
| 14 | A new Governor , David Taylor , was sworn in on May 22 , 1990 , succeeding Christopher Turner , whose relations with the Chief Minister , John Osborne , had become extremely strained at the end of 1989 . |
| 15 | A physicist and former Director of the Atomic Energy Authority 's Harwell laboratories , Marshall had become personally identified at the vanguard of the British nuclear power programme ; in one Monty Pythonesque anti-nuclear cartoon , his balding head replaced the reactor dome of a PWR . |
| 16 | For example , the Treasury 9¾ per cent stock 2002 instanced above stood at a price of £103 ( £103.09375 ) at the close of business on Friday 28 February , 1992 when the running yield could be derived as follows : |
| 17 | In January 1928 he was invited back to speak at the Cambridge Union , on the motion that the Church of England ought to be disestablished . |
| 18 | The actual time of the start is difficult to arrive at , and is not important , but whatever the historical facts may be , it can be taken as fairly certain that the misuse of religion had become well established at the time of the advent of Jesus Christ . |
| 19 | Graham Gooch won an important toss but then fell in the seventh over , clearly surprised to be given out caught at the wicket . |
| 20 | TWO men accused of killing a pensioner when a mugging went wrong had the charge found not proven at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday . |
| 21 | The next three days were spent not looking at the buildings and architecture of gay Paree but for a mythical Adidas Centre which one of my mates overheard someone talking about in hushed tones in a Liverpool snug . |
| 22 | According the Wellcome the study was set up to look at the effect of acyclovir against cytomegalovirus , a type of herpes virus , and was stopped after no difference was found in frequency of CMV disease between patients taking acyclovir and those taking a placebo . |
| 23 | These issues were being raised in the deliberations of a SCOTVEC review group which included representatives of SED , SEB and SCCC and which had been set up to look at the acceptability of non-vocational modules in National Certificate . |
| 24 | In addition to the Education and Training Working Party mentioned above , a working party ( Chairman : QC ) has been set up to look at the way ahead . |
| 25 | Now a Middlesbrough Council working party has been set up to look at the problem . |
| 26 | The issue must have seemed finely balanced at the time , but the troubled history of the prisons in the years that followed suggests that Butler was wrong to have accepted Cunningham 's advice that the Commission was no longer an adequate body to handle the complexity of the tasks to be performed . |
| 27 | Frances Viner , who both directs and designs , has set out to look at the ‘ feminine ’ qualities of the play and its spiritual nature . |
| 28 | My father had often urged me to try some of his marijuana , but I had never accepted , just as I had refused even to look at the cocaine that he kept in his dressing room . |
| 29 | However , the parties involved were prepared to have their heads hit together to arrive at a solution . |
| 30 | 2 You are selling cars ; you have gone out to look at a customer 's part exchange . |