Example sentences of "on [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other navies might stick to the old tactics of trying to board enemy ships and capture them , or concentrate on firing at the masts and rigging in the hope that successful shooting would disable the other side , but the English preferred to shoot into the hulls of their enemies because they knew that with enough time and enough shot they would destroy their opponents . |
| 2 | Renting out the family home while working abroad on contract may not be particularly appealing ; but selling it and having no stake in the home housing market on returning at the end of the contract is by no means an ideal solution . |
| 3 | It was first presented at the ESRC Workshop on Ageing at the University of Surrey , September 1986 . |
| 4 | In other words , to give , to the question , ‘ Why , on looking at the horizontal moon , would you believe it to be larger than the meridian moon if you had no reason to think otherwise ? ’ the answer , ‘ Because it appears larger ’ , is , if it means ‘ Because I perceive it as larger ’ to give no answer at all . |
| 5 | On looking at the effectiveness of the various textual features , only small differences emerged between the two groups on a number of them , with the fast and slow readers being similarly affected by the unfamiliarity of the material in the passage and by the appearance of nouns not previously encountered in the text , and showing similar sensitivity to the distinction between narrative stories and non-fictional descriptive passages . |
| 6 | in theory they should not be able to talk to each-other because they 're either answering the phone and talking to somebody else bloody getting on looking at the screen and typing |
| 7 | We will not spend more time here on looking at the problems , but go on to look at some generalisations about suffixes and stress . |
| 8 | I hurried up to the first floor and on turning at the landing was met by a strange sight . |
| 9 | The searcher who depends solely on browsing at the shelves can miss other related items scattered elsewhere in the collection . |
| 10 | A day of guided walks throughout the Lee Valley Park , with displays and information on birdwatching at the Countryside Centre , Abbey Farmhouse , Crooked Mile , Waltham Abbey , Essex ; tel. 0992 713838 . |
| 11 | Farmers argued that as their day already began at sunrise , they would gain nothing and would also lose an hour for their workers insisted on finishing at the same time as town dwellers . |
| 12 | Initially on arriving at the site a panel consisting of between four and six persons is chosen , after careful screening to eliminate those with poor olfactory perception , to observe the odour . |
| 13 | For three weeks we were delayed in Cape Town , with hardly a passenger boat being able to sail , although one or two boats managed to sneak away but with fear of being black/egged on arriving at the next port of call . |
| 14 | On arriving at the Imaginary Universes Laboratory , Gedanken immediately took a look into the experimental box . |
| 15 | Owing to faulty traffic lights at the top of Tip Lane , the procession was held up and , on arriving at the ground , found Potley already on the pitch and themselves a hefty fine for their late arrival for the game . |
| 16 | The middle paragraph , which summarizes Sadat 's condition on arriving at the hospital and the doctors ' report , is expanded into three pages in the Arabic version . |
| 17 | The first thing he did on arriving at the rehearsal room was to ask Paul Lexington which one was Alex and , having had him identified , he immediately went across to the actor with hand outstretched |
| 18 | ‘ His gratification was almost unbounded when on arriving at the Belts of the Murray he found not only numerous new Species but new forms of Birds . |
| 19 | On arriving at the flat did you speak to Mr ? |
| 20 | On sitting at the table to enjoy marvellous victuals and music , he saw that a servant was actually the GHOST of his recently dead neighbour . |
| 21 | ‘ And as you insist on leaving at the end of the month , ’ he added blandly , ‘ I 'd like everything — but everything — bang up to date . ’ |