Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [v-ing] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The amendment which has gone up there and which I think is being circulated is our amendment which is designed to achieve spending at the government target figure . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're going to start shooting at the end of the month . ’ |
| 3 | He was found seated staring at the wall , as if something unmentionable was to be found there that they could not see . |
| 4 | I had to excuse myself and go out of the room , or I would have collapsed laughing at the doctor 's reaction . |
| 5 | Keener has little technical background , but was always a record nut , having started collecting at the age of five or six . |
| 6 | They say they may have to stop working at the hospital and it ca n't survive without them . |
| 7 | I was inclined to laugh until I found myself shuffling along the edge of one levada , eyes fixed to avoid looking at the drop below . |
| 8 | You will see we have brought forward the first meeting to 23rd September — to help you get in the mood and inspired to start teaching at the beginning of the new term . |
| 9 | Seb told himself he really did intend calling at the cottage to see Anna , but it was easy to make excuses to put off such a visit . |
| 10 | OVER the years I have learned to stop wincing at the description of someone having a drink problem . |
| 11 | NOW YOU 'VE stopped laughing at the idea of Kevin Costner in tights , you can have a chuckle at the cast rumoured to be lined up for his Robin Hood movie Prince Of Thieves — Danny DeVito ( above ) as Friar Tuck , either Patsy Kensit , Emily Lloyd or Imogen Stubbs as Maid Marian and as Robin 's big buddy Little John , John Goodman , who is reported to have been paid $750,000 just to stay interested in playing Fred Flintstone while the producers look for a script |
| 12 | My only pen had stopped working at the start of the walk ; in the rain my watch face went blank . |
| 13 | And so that the village benefits from the wood in some way , erm like there 's a teak plantation they 've got going at the moment , and in ten years time , the teak will be used to carry electricity , so that the village can have some electricity as well , I mean it 's to do with giving the village something as well as trying to help the environment . |
| 14 | Even the King had to start learning at the beginning , did n't he ? |
| 15 | This was the explanation of the beast Allen had found dying at the forest edge , its leg broken from a slip on the rocks . |
| 16 | By Sept. 27 there were reports that the Iraqi authorities , who had introduced rationing at the beginning of the month , were warning that they would not be able to guarantee food supplies for foreigners beyond the end of September , but Iraq stated on Sept. 29 that there were " no plans to deprive foreign nationals of ration coupons " . |
| 17 | Born in Liberia , Jackson had learned printing at a mission school . |
| 18 | Older women were least likely to be eligible because they had started working at the factory when the married women 's option ( i.e. to pay reduced NI contributions ) was in full operation and the majority had not considered it financially worthwhile to pay full contributions . |
| 19 | He had tried starting at the end and flicking to the beginning . |
| 20 | When he was at home he had begun living at the School , where he boarded up the broken windows and had the chimneys cleaned . |
| 21 | Everyone is trying to cut spending at the moment , but this decision is ill-advised . |
| 22 | The steward closed the door behind him and our shadows danced against the wall as we stood transfixed looking at the coffin lid , half-expecting it to be pushed aside and the corpse to rise and step out . |
| 23 | They include the characteristics , background and attitudes of the people involved , the effects of socialization in the tenure type and the ways in which successive post-war governments and parties have encouraged owning at the expense of renting . |