Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb past] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holly heard him shift on his bunk and the mattress seemed to belch at the movement . |
| 2 | He entered in the midst of a raging dispute about whether the endowment deserved to exist at all . |
| 3 | In WORDWISE + , the command ( f1 ) PN12(f2) could be input for a file which the user wished to start at PAGE 12 . |
| 4 | The target word that the user intended to write at each position is also known and stored in a file . |
| 5 | Because when I read the leaflet on that crucial afternoon , it turned out that I could n't start swallowing the pills on any old day : the course had to begin at a particular point in my menstrual cycle . |
| 6 | The mist still limited visibility to less than a hundred yards and the fog-horn continued to blare at regular intervals . |
| 7 | It all began in the early hours when it 's alleged the car failed to stop at a police check and sped off through the city centre and out along the Botley Road . |
| 8 | We were told that after 1948 the revenue sought to tax at least two categories of employees in receipt of in-house benefits . |
| 9 | The formation started to build at 8:27am when the F-5A joined the Valkyrie . |
| 10 | Once a deal was struck between matchmaker and the parents , the girl had to stay at home until her marriage . |
| 11 | After one or two walks over the hills together the girl preferred to stay at home so the mother went on her own ; on one of these occasions Peony had actually tidied up and got tea ready and gone a little way along the track to meet her mother when she saw her coming up the hill . |
| 12 | On the basis of this , it is submitted that the question of subsidiarity is essentially a political question for the Council , and if the Council decided to act at the Community level it would not be possible to challenge what it did simply on the basis that it could better have been done at the level of the Member States ; rather , it would be necessary to show a manifest error , a misuse of power or a clear passing of the limits of discretion , and it is submitted that the occasions when this might be done will be rare . |
| 13 | If he hurried he could easily cycle to the barrow , make a thorough search , and be back in his bed before the household started to stir at 7 . |
| 14 | They passed , apparently oblivious , intent only on their own business ; but hardly a soul in the village failed to pass at some time during that day , and not one missed a detail of what was there to be seen . |
| 15 | The thought of Reni sending any sort of word to him amused Huy ; but the boy continued to look at him seriously . |
| 16 | The child continued to gaze at her . |
| 17 | It is surprising that London did not industrialize and that the population continued to grow at such a rate . |
| 18 | And when she thought it was about to finish , the whip began to flick at the pegs . |
| 19 | Later on , when Lewis and his wife and the baby went to stay at Wyvis Hall , Hilbert 's only comment on his great-nephew 's name was : |
| 20 | After an inconclusive discussion , the Cabinet agreed to return at a later meeting to the question ‘ whether the Government , as such , should tender advice to the House of Commons on the abolition of the death penalty ’ . |
| 21 | The dog stopped to sniff at something in the grass , then squatted , urinating . |
| 22 | By 1925 , this early optimism had disappeared and the District continued to struggle at a financial subsistence level throughout the whole period , apparently incapable of seriously addressing the resolution of the problem of financial self-sufficiency . |
| 23 | This was the Commission on the Constitution asked to look at ‘ the present functions of the central legislature and government in relation to the several countries , nations and regions of the United kingdom ’ . |
| 24 | The lift came to rest at the first floor and the door slid open . |
| 25 | The queue began to form at 7 a.m. on 13th May , and , after 3 stressful hours of preparation , it was inspiring to hear the peal of bells with which Nancy Robinson traditionally and imaginatively opens the Sale |
| 26 | Rose perched on a stool so that her face was on a level with Lily and the woman had to look at her . |
| 27 | But , although the headmaster turned to frown at Mahmud , Robert did n't yet feel he had any justification for leaving the neat line of boys and tracking down Maisie . |
| 28 | The knight had to swerve at the last moment to avoid a head-on collision with his opponent , but at the same time he had to couch his lance to his side as tightly as possible with his hand and under his arm so that the lance blow was struck with all the weight and momentum of his horse behind it , for if in swerving aside he moved his hand or used his arm to thrust at his opponent then a blow delivered in this manner would have no effect whatever . |
| 29 | An unplanned twenty-minute hold prior to the display further reduced his fuel reserves , and the pilot intended to refuel at Denham before returning to a private strip at Pangbourne . |
| 30 | My mother who had reached the door turned to look at me . |