Example sentences of "[vb infin] a [noun sg] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hang on there 's got ta be something wrong there , that means I 'm only gon na need a box at the most , does n't it , hang on , let's write it out |
| 2 | The tour will include a look at the air force 's newest operational bomber , the B-1B , but not the radar-evading B-2 , also known as the Stealth bomber . |
| 3 | ‘ You would win a battle at the Forth crossing . |
| 4 | Yet Labour can not hope to control any debate at Westminster from which Scottish MPs are excluded , even if it should win a majority at a future election . |
| 5 | I did n't get thrown very often , but that is no good if you still do n't win a medal at the end of the day . |
| 6 | As a matter of fact er as the years went by we got this benevolent fund and we used to give all the old w as a mat we got a pension fund I know it do n't sound much now , but at that time like during and just after the War we paid twelve and sixpence a week pension to all everybody who 'd retired from the union after they 'd done time , and we also gave them extra grants and took them on er you know outings until a time I said , Well we 're spending all this money on outings , we could buy a bungalow at the seaside and let them all go you know pensioners go in their turn free . |
| 7 | The Shrewsbury Biscuit is n't quite as famous as the Bakewell Tart , but is on sale in most of the bakers ; you can buy a recipe at the Tourist Office . |
| 8 | Some trainers offer residential courses , however , where you can enjoy a holiday at the same time as training your dog under expert guidance . |
| 9 | I think Japan was taken by surprise — they did n't expect a tour at the time — but he just decided to do it . |
| 10 | Moreover , since it came to be accepted by many schools that a pupil could not study these separate subjects at A level unless he or she had already studied them at O level ( although in the 1950s it had been intended that O levels should be ‘ bypassed ’ by those who would study a subject at A level ) the domination of the university faculties began when a pupil was 14 . |
| 11 | Well we could try and do that my I 've got a workload that would choke a camel at the moment because I 'm also the admin officer at the moment for the Public Relations flight of the R A F E R. |
| 12 | Everyone , including the Indians , seemed to be happy and laughing , and in my surly mood I unkindly wished them all in hell — chiefly because no one was in any hurry to serve me and I had to sit and watch a party at the next table consume a feast that looked to me as if it had issued straight from Nirvana , before I was even shown a menu . |
| 13 | ‘ I can listen and pour a drink at the same time . ’ |
| 14 | He was sitting there with his head in his hands ; he did not rise when the train passed ; he made no movement ; he did not give a glance at the signs I made him ; and for a long time as the train was carrying me away , I watched his little motionless , grief-stricken figure , lost in the desert , an image of my own despair . |
| 15 | OPTIONS : Any Mobs of Savage Orcs may carry a shield at an additional cost of +1 point per model . |
| 16 | Nothing captures this profound relationship like Leonard 's poem , ‘ Last Dance At The Four Penny ’ ( The Spice-Box Of Earth , pp 73 ) , which perfectly catches the way they could cock a snook at the establishment , scholarly and religious : |
| 17 | Darling , sweet Constanza , let's do it , let's do it now , we are going to have a jolly life you and I , let's cock a snook at the world and the mess it 's in . ’ |
| 18 | Following the performance , officials at the hospital and members of the audience were invited to an informal get-together an event which was so successful it was to repeated at the October production and hopefully will become a feature at every future production . |
| 19 | For the Christian , it is natural that God should become a person at the Incarnation rather than a dog or a stone , not necessarily because persons are somehow more technically advanced on a scale of being , but because they display the qualities that are most to be valued . |
| 20 | which is why you do n't see a voltage at the same leg really |
| 21 | You 'd sooner see a vegetarian at an abattoir . |
| 22 | The runner , who has always protested that he is innocent , insists that the only reason he did not provide a sample at the 1991 GRE Cup meeting was that he did not have time before he had to go to work . |
| 23 | The " rapid reaction " force would provide a capability at a more substantial level , as a " corps-sized formation " ( an imprecise indication , taken to mean anything from 30,000 to 100,000 troops ) drawn from different European NATO member countries with the United States providing air support . |
| 24 | He gives us no sign that he believes God will provide a substitute at the last moment , no sign of a conviction that all will be well in the end . |
| 25 | So they were allowed to go they were allowed to go and work a harvest at a farm . |
| 26 | The winners will spend a month at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in County Monaghan , Ireland . |
| 27 | A single person can quite easily spend a week at a health farm or clinic without any feeling of loneliness or of being out-of-step with everyone else . |
| 28 | So rather than covering entire platforms , we may use a design at a focal point within a station , but not where it clashes with the operational side of things . ’ |
| 29 | Now when you do this sort of assessment do you take into consideration the amount of money I have to pay to go and stay a night at a place like this ? |
| 30 | Forty-five per cent of this group said that they could not even make a guess at the likely interest rate . |