Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My husband and I take turns to sit at the stall . |
| 2 | AT the age of 80 the Rev. Anthony Cunningham has jumped at the chance of a new job . |
| 3 | For four days the slimmer knows that all he or she has consumed at the end of each day is the 1,000 calories contained in the meals . |
| 4 | To the east , in Wollo , the Save the Children Fund is intensively feeding 700 out of the 3000 children it has registered at the Korem camp . |
| 5 | The £4 million scheme to build 97 one to three bedroom homes for shared ownership is the second contract Wimpey has undertaken at the site for the North British Housing Association . |
| 6 | It is imperative that you do not disturb the meat layer which has formed at the top of the soup . |
| 7 | The women 's ability to contribute towards the cost is assessed and she needs to know at the outset what she will be asked to pay . |
| 8 | For now the point is that the drafter needs to know at the outset whether any of the business 's customers will fall within the definition of " consumer " : if so , care must be taken in drafting clauses excluding or limiting liability . |
| 9 | On he 's , he 's instructions , on , do n't like that dam great bush being so near , he never has to stand at the kitchen sink and look out like I do this is where my , it 's funny whether the winds blowing this way or that way , |
| 10 | And the tutor 's impressions of one student are unlikely to remain vivid after he/she has looked at the work of a few more students . |
| 11 | Your work so far has looked at the case studies of three kinds of activities primary , secondary , and tertiary . |
| 12 | Woodward ( 1958 ) has looked at the relationship between technology and organisational performance in the manufacturing industry |
| 13 | Nordhaus has looked at the evidence in nine countries over the period 1947–72 . |
| 14 | This chapter has looked at the importance of temporary jobs as a source of flows both from unemployment into employment and from employment into unemployment . |
| 15 | East Devon District Council has looked at the paperwork and has realized that the Community Council is going to match anything that they give , so I 've spoken to their recycling officer and he thinks that the way the budget is , we 're very likely to get one of the containers from them , which would be matched by another from the Community Council . |
| 16 | The physical and analytical chemistry department at DSM has looked at the distribution and migration of salts in limestone . |
| 17 | A large number of studies has looked at the geography of those spending patterns , and attempted to account for the spatial variation in how much is spent , where ( for example , Johnston , 1980 ; Archer , 1983 ) . |
| 18 | Even Association football has grown at the grass roots with a further 2,000 clubs affiliating to the FA in the second half of the 1970s to make up a total of almost 40,000 . |
| 19 | In Britain and America , for example , wine has grown at the expense of beer and spirits whilst in Spain and Italy , it is beer that has grown at the expense of wine and spirits . |
| 20 | In Britain and America , for example , wine has grown at the expense of beer and spirits whilst in Spain and Italy , it is beer that has grown at the expense of wine and spirits . |
| 21 | Party discipline in the Senate is even weaker than in the House ; several powerful senators have a better-than-nodding acquaintance with the petrochemical industry ; and the Senate Finance Committee , which starts looking at the bill on June 7th , has a Democratic majority of only 11 to nine . |
| 22 | A character wearing the Talisman of Ulric automatically recovers wounds he has suffered at the start of his turn . |
| 23 | The blade needs replacing at the moment it is snatching at the grass . |
| 24 | Although the USSR has hinted at the possibility of cooperation with the GCC over issues of Gulf security , its attitude to this body , especially over GCC plans for coordinated security arrangements , remained negative in the early 1980s . |
| 25 | By the way , despite what Dove is quoted as saying in the note , there is a direct quotation from his ‘ assigned ’ opera , Figaro : in No. 5 , ‘ The Countess Interrupts a Quarrel ’ , after the clarinet has hinted at the Count 's ‘ Contessa , perdono ! ’ , there is his spouse 's ‘ Più docile io sono … ‘ , the second phrase warmly harmonized à la Steve Reich — a little too sweet for my taste I 'm afraid . |
| 26 | The more the star has moved at the end of the Earth 's journey of 186 million miles , the closer it must be to the solar system . |
| 27 | The plight of the country 's refugees has tugged at the nation 's heart . |
| 28 | Wood , whose company is now owned by the Mallett group , has shown at the Shepherd Gallery housed in an entirely appropriate nineteenth-century building with period interiors on numerous occasions . |
| 29 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |
| 30 | The family proceedings court has to look at the Welfare Checklist ( section 1 , 1989 Children Act ) and , as the writers say , the conflict between the child 's welfare being paramount and the need to protect the community present a real paradox . |