Example sentences of "[subord] [indef pn] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Raymond Aron 's words , ‘ The essence of capitalist exchange is to proceed from money to money by way of commodity and end up with more money than one had at the outset ’ . |
| 2 | I then went down to Athens , to the National Museum , and was very impressed by the great display of Cycladic material there , and also by how little was known about the Cyclades if one looked at the literature of the time . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the company 's financial controller said that , if one looked at the methods used by the cost accountant at the pre-investment ( i.e. product-design ) stage , it was clear that the notions of activity-based costing did receive careful consideration , before approval of the product design and projected product prices used in the investment appraisal . |
| 4 | Suppose that one set the pendulum in motion , waited long enough for transients to die away , and then attempted to predict ( on the basis of previous experience ) what one would observe if one looked at the pendulum . |
| 5 | Can I just put to you there that the pensions regulator may be able to handle aspects like audit reports and established well established documentation and procedures , but are you not really suggesting erm that in the circumstances of Maxwell where the Committee saw for example a transaction that actually had thirty different transactions and therefore unless one looked at the overview of those thirty transactions , one could n't realise that the bank effectively was involved in a fraud . |
| 6 | As someone said at the time , ‘ I could believe him guilty of grievous bodily harm , but not grievous bodily charm . ’ |
| 7 | He looked up as someone rattled at the front door of the shop ; irritably he waved them away . |
| 8 | He stopped speaking as someone knocked at the door . |
| 9 | But while you 're doing that , I 'm trying to get the wages made up for — ’ began Josh , then exploded irritably as someone knocked at the office door : ‘ What is it now ? ’ |
| 10 | Probably be glad to get rid of her , she thought gloomily , then looked up sharply as someone rapped at the back door . |
| 11 | She was hunting through her bag when someone tapped at the door . |
| 12 | Lindsey was putting the finishing touches to her notes when someone tapped at the door and a dark-haired girl popped her head round . |
| 13 | Lindsey was clearing her desk when someone tapped at the door . |
| 14 | As one remarked at the time , those who were wondering what women 's golf was coming to were relieved to learn that the culprits were a King Charles spaniel and a mongrel she had encountered during the course of the early morning post round she does on the outskirts of Durham . |