Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] a [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stockton South MP Tim Devlin says a new winter storage site may have been found for families being forced to pull off a site at Stockton by April 1 . |
| 2 | Surprisingly , it 's normal for some women to squirt out a fluid at the moment of orgasm . |
| 3 | A survey of 17 major organisations that had shown interest in joining TOPP , but had later decided not to go ahead , found that although many were still enthusiastic and hoped to set up a scheme at some time in the future , several of them saw cost as a major deterrent . |
| 4 | Aung San had planned to set up a government at Moulmein , but was put off . |
| 5 | The common way to set up a school at this time was by means of a chantry . |
| 6 | Paragraph 29 of the statement of claim alleges that the third and fourth defendants and through them , the fifth defendant were ‘ knowingly concerned ’ in the breaches of section 3 , 47 , 56 and 57 in four specified respects , namely , ( i ) in authorising the transfer of a sum of U.S. $250,000 out of an account in the name of the second defendant into which investors ' money had been paid ; ( ii ) in making arrangements during the postal strike in September 1988 for the collection from investors of their cheques and for the distribution of advertisements inviting investment in Euramco ; ( iii ) in paying investors ' cheques into Pantell S.A. 's bank account ; and ( iv ) in attempting to set up an account at Barclays Bank 's Holborn branch for another company , also called Pantell S.A. |
| 7 | Once Buckthorn disturbed a snake , and leapt into the air as it whipped between his paws to vanish down a hole at the foot of a birch . |
| 8 | ‘ Had to help out a lot at home , did you ? ’ he asked unsympathetically . |
| 9 | While the Minister of Education was put in charge of selecting suitably personalized farewell gifts for each country 's contestant , he did not see fit to put in an appearance at the National Co-ordinating Commission for International Women 's Year . |
| 10 | ‘ You and I are also required to put in an appearance at the police station later , but I managed to persuade them you were n't in a fit state to answer questions right now . ’ |
| 11 | Under section 40(4) ( a ) a review can be postponed if it is net practicable to carry out a review at that time . |
| 12 | Nula , 32 , of North London , has had to fight off an attacker at a bus stop and survive a nightmare ride with a sinister mini-cab driver . |
| 13 | Yes , it 's for the dictionary project , we 're doing a , erm we 're trying to build up a database at the moment of transcribed spoken language . |
| 14 | Add to that a steamer trunk full of footwear , a stack of rather lavish hatboxes ( occupied ) and enough jewellery to start up a stall at St George 's market , and you get the idea that Pat just might be an out and out fashion fanatic . |
| 15 | Numbers — Although it 's good fun for three or more people to abseil down a rope at the same time , normally no more than two should be attached to the same descendeur . |
| 16 | One way would be to hold up a pencil at arm 's length and measure their relative sizes as an artist might . |
| 17 | Ven made a brief stop to drop off a parcel at one of the shops in the town , obviously the reason for his having to make the journey . |
| 18 | Dealers at Harvard Securities found it amusing to ring up a client at 8.20 am. and to interrupt his shaving , breakfasting , or love-making in order to press him into buying stock . |
| 19 | Could it be supposed that it would be more impossible for God to raise up a body at Resurrection , if needs be , out of elementary particles , which had been liberated by burning , than it would be to raise up a body from dust ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I ca n't afford to take on a loan at this stage . |
| 21 | Dr. Steve Barnett resigned his GEC research fellowship in Engineering to take up a lectureship at King 's College , London . |
| 22 | Together they barely had time to take up a position at the far door , seize a loaded gun , drop to one knee , and aim as , with a final heave , the bulging mass of bodies exploded into the room , followed by the living . |
| 23 | Williams had gone to take up a post at Howard University , where at the age of 28 , he began what would become a meteoric rise through the halls of academia , ( Associate Professor in 1946 , at the age of 35 ) . |
| 24 | A bitter personal feud had developed there between the two eminent classics professors , Otto Jahn ( like Nietzsche from Pforta ) and Friedrich Ritschl ; and in 1865 Ritschl left , followed by some of his students , to take up a post at the University of Leipzig . |
| 25 | He held rival services until his return to Britain in 1852 to take up a stipend at Lee in Lincoln , when he was succeeded at the Beco Chapel by a Mr Hossmer . |
| 26 | This flexibility includes job mobility , which may require you to do different jobs in the office , or being asked to take up a job at another office within a reasonable travelling distance . |
| 27 | PETER Stefanini , managing director of Anglo United subsidiary Coalite Chemicals , is leaving to take up a directorship at Croda International . |
| 28 | WHEN LASMO Pakistan 's Mujadid Ali arrived in London in September 1991 to take up a place at London University , his first priority was concerned with degrees Fahrenheit rather than degrees academic . |
| 29 | As to what would have happened without the event of the accident in her A level year by way of results , I regret I have to find as a fact that she would not in the year of her accident , have achieved the grades necessary for her to take up a place at Norwich City College . |
| 30 | Craddock left to take up an appointment at the Wellcome Research Laboratories , and Ridley went to join the staff at Moorfields Eye Hospital . |