Example sentences of "for [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | These cheeses have a slightly yellower paste than the Stiltons available at other times of the year and are perfect for eating at Christmas . |
| 2 | Last week , they roasted Lavelle for eating at exclusive restaurants at the expense of company officials who were , at the time , under investigation by her department for dumping toxic waste in harbours and unprotected dumps . |
| 3 | I still have a letter dated September 1939 , just after the outbreak of war , saying that ‘ Sir Fowler Harrison would be obliged if Mrs Birkett would supply eight or nine pounds of Cotherstone cheese , going blue if possible , and another ready for eating at once ’ . |
| 4 | At Mildenhall in Suffolk in the spring of 1688 , a parson threatened to bring a Nonconformist minister before a JP for preaching a sermon , saying that it should cost him £20 ( the fine for preaching at a conventicle under the terms of the 1670 Act , whose operation had just been suspended ) . |
| 5 | Little is known of his childhood , though it is said he developed a talent for drawing at an early age . |
| 6 | A surgeon banned from driving for 14 days and fined £105 for speeding at 104mph on his way to hospital to operate is to appeal to the Crown Court . |
| 7 | FORMER jewel-firm boss Gerald Ratner faces a New Year driving ban for speeding at 110mph-plus in his Mercedes . |
| 8 | Britains richest man … was fined a hundred and twenty pounds for speeding at a hundred miles an hour along the M5 . |
| 9 | ( Silver card holders are not covered for nursing at home or NHS cash and maternity benefits . ) |
| 10 | Compare these potential losses with the fall due to the recession , estimated by the Henley Centre for Forecasting at 9% in 1990 and a further 6% in 1991 but for the national press at 11% in 1990 and a further 12% in 1991 ( Media Week 8.7.91 — and the recession will be coming to an end by the time any tobacco advertising ban is introduced . |
| 11 | Michael holds Howard by the upper arms , to take in his corporeal presence through his finger-tips , and to keep him at the right distance for gazing at in astonishment . |
| 12 | The giant chaser put up an exciting performance on his debut for the champion trainer , romping home by 12 lengths from favourite Fit For Firing at Wincanton on Saturday . |
| 13 | And then your editor goes on Jonathan Ross ' show and humiliates him more ( I have written a letter to Ross as well , for laughing at Jason like that ) . |
| 14 | A worn-looking hooker is getting her face slashed in the local whorehouse for laughing at her cowboy customer 's ‘ teensy little pecker ’ . |
| 15 | When Geoffrey son of Sarah of Empingham resisted this illegal demand , the forester raised the hue and cry upon him , and distrained him until he gave him two shillings and found sureties for appearing at the attachment court . |
| 16 | I still remember that day in the war when , as a very junior subaltern , my CO left me a little hand-written note admonishing me for appearing at breakfast unshaven . |
| 17 | The Lofthouse and Middlesmoor Prize Band played a selection of music ; a note in the feast programme remarked on the fact that the band comes from the upper end of Nidderdale , from which dale hailed the Netherdale Singers , who were paid five shillings — according to the church accounts — for appearing at Burnsall Feast in 1740 . |
| 18 | A protocol on oil spills , which will also be open for signing at Cartagena , does mention ‘ the marine and coastal environment ’ . |
| 19 | However , both sides cautioned against over-optimistic hopes that treaties on all three issues could be ready for signing at the planned " superpower " summit in Washington in June . |
| 20 | Instead , she suggests introducing devices such as tolls for driving in specific , badly congested areas or for driving at particular times , such as rush hours . |
| 21 | It was calculated from a breath test taken then that he was nearly one and a half times over the limit for driving at the time of the accident . |
| 22 | A FOOTBALL star was fined yesterday for driving at 90mph through a city centre . |
| 23 | FORMER England soccer star Trevor Brooking was yesterday fined £600 for driving at 96mph on a 70mph dual carriageway . |
| 24 | New rails ready for spiking at Quarry Siding . |
| 25 | Some , including Field Marshal Lord Roberts , at one time Commander-in-Chief of the British Army , were for landing at Antwerp to sustain the Belgian Army and pose an inhibiting threat to the German right wing . |
| 26 | If you wish to record a dialogue for use as above , it can be done as follows : record the whole dialogue for listening at normal speed , without any pauses between the various utterances ( if there are pauses you will be tempted to mimic ) |
| 27 | Eating sand rice and stone peas , drinking small quantities of an unknown sticky orange substance , stopping off for re-fuelling at most airports in the world , taking crazed detours to Nowhereland through Afghanistan , Pakistan , India , Iran , Saudi Arabia , what seemed like Iceland and what definitely was Cuba , herded off the plane every few hours to sit in concrete bunkers while men with machine guns handed out the sticky orange , with the true feeling gnawing into your dead-from-the-nerves-down brain that you would n't make Bangkok until the New Year , if at all . |
| 28 | It was not until the end of the 18th century that the first bottle of claret as we now know it was put down for ageing at the famous Chateau Lafite in 1797 . |
| 29 | If , as some Israeli ‘ moderates ’ argue , terrorism always was a marginal question , it is certainly infinitely less serious for Israel 's future than the mass popular unrest of the Intifada , but by continuing to lump everything they can — such as children throwing stones — under its general rubric , the ‘ extremists ’ seek to ‘ de-legitimise ’ the Intifada , and evade any necessity for looking at its real causes . |
| 30 | I had never lived there , although in my early childhood I had stayed for short periods ( but then my mind was occupied in forming pictures ; the time had not yet come for looking at those pictures , for interpreting them ) . |