Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been intended to provide turning facilities at the Robin Hood , but no suitable place could be found . |
| 2 | ‘ The Jockey Club wants to charge us more than it costs us to obtain riding plans at the moment , ’ said Gavin Bargate , the PA 's Racing Service Editor . |
| 3 | Yeah we went to see Racing Demons at the beginning of December did n't we ? |
| 4 | Miss Fran Bennett , the group 's director , said the report showed the ‘ scale of deprivation among claimants ’ and challenged the main political parties to put tackling poverty at the top of their agendas . |
| 5 | The commander had reminded him only the day before of the need to use manpower more efficiently : the government was no longer inclined to keep tossing money at the police force without seeing results . |
| 6 | Initially , Laura told her to start making samples at the Leeswood factory in Cheshire , but , determined that no one should interfere , did not inform anyone else there what Anne was doing . |
| 7 | I should have liked to have seen Sligo at the turn of the century , or failing that , in sunny weather . |
| 8 | Leoni was an adventurer in the service of Charles V and Phillip II of Spain , and also claimed — rightly , it would appear — to have seen service at the oar of a rowed galley . |
| 9 | Sick also suggested that several people claimed to have seen Bush at the Paris meeting , although he admitted that he was not yet convinced of the veracity of this aspect of the affair . |
| 10 | In my view , however , the effect of section 38 ( a ) is not to vest title in the trustee retrospectively in the sense that under the Act he is deemed to have had title at the commencement of the bankruptcy ; the effect of section 38 ( a ) is to vest in the trustee , when adjudication occurs , title to property which is identified by reference to the property which belonged to the bankrupt at the commencement of the bankruptcy . |
| 11 | Waqar Younis , Surrey 's Pakistani paceman , also played in the games but is not expected to have to give evidence at the inquiry . |
| 12 | It saves time and effort on the part of the typist not to have to put commas at the end of each and every line of an address and full stops at the end of an address and after the date . |
| 13 | There was an inquiry about this in 1867 , when Richard Colwell was said to have left wheat at the mill for three weeks , while waiting for enough water to work the mill . |
| 14 | Among the many meetings that took place that night , one of the most significant seems to have taken place at the house of a Foreign Office Minister , Tristan Garel-Jones . |
| 15 | The miraculous moment of transmutation , when lead turns into gold , as it were , can be proven to have taken place at the precise second when the first buyer hands over his American Express card to add the foreskin of the Infant Jesus or a mummified fish from the Miraculous Drought of Fishes to his collection . |
| 16 | A similar rite seems to have taken place at the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus . |
| 17 | In the UK , the Reed Exhibition Co Ltd has cancelled one of its biggest events , the PC-oriented Which Computer Show , which was to have taken place at the NEC , Birmingham this April . |
| 18 | And , further , how does it appear that the testator 's implied request , if it could be implied , or his promise , if that promise alone would suffice , or both together , were intended to cause the marriage , or did cause it , so that the marriage can be said to have taken place at the testator 's request , or , in other words , in consequence of that request ? |
| 19 | Jeszenszky also disclosed that the dissolution of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( CMEA or COMECON ) which was to have taken place at the same time , had been postponed for " technical reasons " [ see pp. 37979 ] . |
| 20 | These final exchanges were to have taken place at the border town of Mundhiriya from March 14 , but did not in the event go ahead as scheduled . |
| 21 | The alleged attacks were said to have taken place at the family 's home in Flint . |
| 22 | The incident is believed to have taken place at the home of Mr Dearlove 's estranged wife Janet . |
| 23 | A frank talk was a help , but it was no substitute for knowing what it was like to have to milk cows at the crack of dawn every morning or mend fences , or battle with the elements , and so he began a series of annual stays on Duchy farms . |
| 24 | However , Dumas was believed to have expressed disquiet at the suggestion that Lebanese elections might be held before the proposed withdrawal of Syrian troops in September . |
| 25 | Twenty-one Serbian villagers were reported to have been killed on 22 August by Croatian security forces carrying out house-to-house searches in the villages of Kinjacka , Cakle and Trnjani for insurgents believed to have fired mortars at the town of Sisak . |
| 26 | Yes , that was some time ago when I was working as a hostess with the British Council and used to collect meet VIPs at the station and bring them here to the university . |
| 27 | A letter from the Highways Department stating the Lothian Regional Council propose to promote an Order to introduce waiting restrictions at the junction of Lanark Road and Baberton Avenue . |
| 28 | ‘ The most important objective for the next leader of the Labour Party must be to prepare to win power at the earliest opportunity . |