Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] a [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHAT a moving picture of runner Derek Redmond being comforted by his father after pulling a hamstring at the olympics . |
| 2 | A gunman escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash after threatening an assistant at the Building Society on Road in the town . |
| 3 | Well , I might get some ideas after having a look at the place tomorrow . |
| 4 | After taking a single at the first , the Scots counted 3-2-3-3 to lead 12-0 at the break . |
| 5 | Page had been forced into the play-off after dropping a shot at the ninth , his last hole , but edged home at the second extra hole with a par three after Maguire 's ball had landed in heavy rough at the back of the green . |
| 6 | After seven holes , Sheehan was ahead , still 14 under where Coe-Jones was back to 13 under after dropping a shot at the short and watery fifth . |
| 7 | Bob died after brandishing a hammer at the youth who was slashing car tyres in South London . |
| 8 | No , I 'm not thinking of drawing a sketch at the moment , we 've done the sketch on the other page |
| 9 | His memorandum , delivered on 9 January 1939 , repeated previous arguments and drew attention to the weakness of the Labour League of Youth and the difficulty of gaining a majority at the next General Election . |
| 10 | Much more satisfactory is the method of lofting a pulley at the end of the main kiteline and passing a continuous loop of secondary line through the pulley . |
| 11 | With Cyrille Regis and Brian Small dropped , being replaced by Dwight Yorke and Steve Froggatt , Villa again looked a side capable of sustaining a challenge at the top of the table . |
| 12 | By now it was the rush hour and he was squeezed into the corner of a carriage by a family of Swedish tourists who talked loudly and without vowels and continuously trafficked maps and guidebooks across him , so there was no chance of getting a look at the diaries or the few folded sheets of paper that were wedged between them . |
| 13 | Oh well like she said today , there 's no guarantee of getting a job at the end . |
| 14 | Instead of beginning a search at the start of the structure ( i.e. first element of the array ) , the binary search technique begins at a mid point . |
| 15 | It was a line that began with the excavation work at the Heavenite observatory and her first trip in the TARDIS ( how could you forget the TARDIS ? ) , continued with a confused recollection of pointing a gun at the Doctor in a tunnel somewhere , and ended on Sakkrat ( Sakkrat ? |
| 16 | In the case of matching grants the central government agrees to match a certain proportion of the expenditures of the local authority ; for example , central government may pay x per cent of the total cost of providing a service at the local level . |
| 17 | ( The last sentence of transportation to be pronounced by a Mayor of Saltash was in 1877 , upon a ‘ ticket of leave ’ man guilty of stealing a watch at the town 's regatta ) . |
| 18 | Twenty years ago the city 's population never thought of spending a day at the beach . |
| 19 | It started to rain so I went down to Apsley House at the bottom right-hand corner of the park with the intention of having a look at the paintings there . |
| 20 | So we 'll just have a little quick think about numbers generally , and then we 'll sort of have a look at the fractions , and then we 'll have a look at percentages |
| 21 | First , Nicholas had no hope of undertaking a campaign at the opposite end of the continent without the assistance of Austria and Prussia — but Austria and Prussia were reluctant to join him . |
| 22 | She had five whole days to go yet before she might chance to see Vendelin Gajdusek , she mused and , suddenly fired with enthusiasm , and mobile , she toyed with the idea of taking a look at the other spa towns — if they were not too far distant . |
| 23 | The point should also be made that practitioners facing potential limitation problems in claims valued at less than £50,000 can no longer employ the expedient of issuing a writ at the last moment before the limitation period expires . |
| 24 | An accomplice , Marten Imandi , was found guilty of murdering a person at the North-West Orient Airlines office in Copenhagen on July 22 , 1985 , and was given a life sentence . |
| 25 | Learning to relax is like pulling a plug at the bottom of your stress glass , gradually the tension and stress drain away . |
| 26 | For him , it 's like having an eye at the end of his fingertips . |
| 27 | The Government was understood to have decided against making a statement at the request of Labour which wanted the opportunity to reply in full to the Budget . |
| 28 | It is always worth having a look at the roughs plotted over time , and thinking hard about what has been discarded in the smoothing operation . |
| 29 | All of you couch potatoes who were inspired by the Olympics to take more exercise in future , what about having a bash at the New York Marathon and raising funds for charity as well ? |
| 30 | After working as a structural engineering designer he was a draughtsman with aircraft firms before becoming a lecturer at the University of Glasgow in civil engineering and aeronautics ( 1922–39 ) . |