Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hear you 've been looking at Eggle guitars … |
| 2 | Well , those animals that did survive were treated at a number of animal shelters . |
| 3 | ‘ We 'd be on a hiding to nothing , ’ said Joe , ‘ and that would probably include being shot at dawn . |
| 4 | Hang on John , all this will do is make at least a quarter of our own members , in this union , to be inactive in their own industries . |
| 5 | Here I am , yours for the asking ; talented , handsome , lovable and affectionate , and all you can do is gawk at a couple of brainless broads . " |
| 6 | What this will do is present at a disadvantage when it comes to competing with other units to secure the contracts that it ultimately undertakes at the minute . |
| 7 | All they can do is to look at the evidence and decide what they are going to believe . |
| 8 | Right , erm , ah , I think the best thing we can do is to look at the rate book for this question because you may have remembered it from er , you may not . |
| 9 | What we can still do is to escape at long last from the constitutional fiction which we once grasped to ease our transition from the capital of a worldwide empire to a nation state alongside other nation states , but which , having produced so much havoc here at home , has turned into an instrument for external duress to be brought to bear on our own political institutions . |
| 10 | The best thing you could do is ask at the |
| 11 | What we can more profitably do is look at the way speakers have used code switches in the past , in an effort to understand their motivations . |
| 12 | The first thing we 'll do is look at the data , alright , so if you go from the action menu into option one , right , we 're going to plot er go through to the transform edit |
| 13 | All they could do was to look at her but no one could read Rose 's face and they turned back to their books . |
| 14 | And so therefore all it could do was look at Aden and Palestine and Cyprus , in terms of actually , I 'm talking about the practicalities of |
| 15 | I said put that finger down and I might tell you , I said do n't point at me David I do n't like being pointed at and Maureen nearly fell over , Maureen stood there , she nearly fell over |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't like being laughed at , ’ she told him , her face still stiff with offended pride . |
| 17 | And I do n't like being shouted at . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't like being got at . |
| 19 | Several hands had hoisted her up , and she could remember being carried at shoulder height , giggling and swaying — and then ? |
| 20 | Master , I do n't mind being shot at , hunted , trapped , attacked — but to die on a frozen lake at the dead of night ! ’ |
| 21 | In my view , a number of the points raised in his petition are matters which could have been raised at the appeal . |
| 22 | it would be the matter that would have been raised at our board meeting and relayed on |
| 23 | ‘ No person who shows that he has been tried by any competent court for a criminal offence and either convicted or acquitted shall again be tried for that offence or for any other criminal offence of which he could have been convicted at the trial for that offence save upon the order of a superior court made in the course of appeal proceedings relating to the conviction or acquittal ; … |
| 24 | Mr Richard Aiken , counsel for BBC Enterprises , had told the court that a decision on whether to continue the BBC Europe service should have been made at the end of November but had been deferred until a meeting of the directors on December 29 . |
| 25 | Decorated metalwork and pottery can , in addition , be studied by the measurement of elements in designs to determine which objects may have been made at the same source , using the same tools , or even by the same craftsman . |
| 26 | Black Fury could only have been made at Warner Bros , a studio which had firmly aligned with Roosevelt and the New Deal and which quite clearly believed that there was a market for films which dealt with topical issues and in particular with matters of social justice . |
| 27 | For exemption to apply , the gift must have been made at least seven years before the donor 's death and moreover , it must have been unconditionally given ; or to use the jargon , ‘ without reservation ’ . |
| 28 | I revised a relatively brief article in line with the referees ' comments only to receive a new set of comments which raised points that could have been made at the first submission . |
| 29 | You said yourself , that hole could have been made at any time . |
| 30 | The purchaser claimed under two heads , first for the capital loss and secondly for his loss of profits — the latter head being based on the difference over three years between the profits made at the machine 's actual rate of output and the higher profits which would have been made at the warranted rate of output . |