Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | WE encounter a difficulty at the beginning of this part of the book by directing our attention to the solution of ‘ legal ’ problems . |
| 2 | ‘ The UK may have won a battle at the Maastricht summit , but not the ‘ war ’ , says David Lomax , Group Economic Adviser at National Westminster Bank , in his January economic review . |
| 3 | Rachel Karafistan , now 18 , who co-founded the Bare Essentials Youth Theatre , will know soon whether she has won a day at the Olivier theatre , working with actors and directors including Anthony Hopkins , Ian McKellen and Richard Eyre , as part of the Lloyds Bank Theatre Challenge . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's incredible that a little league like ours has won a victory at the highest level in the world , ’ says Kip . |
| 5 | The confidence was knocked out of me after I had won a scholarship at the age of eleven and was sent to a school in Hampshire . |
| 6 | Lisa Keenan , 17 , from Oxton has won a place at the University of Northumbria , while Lisa Hudson , 18 , from Claughton will study at the Preston-based University of Central Lancashire . |
| 7 | A TALENTED North-East teenager has won a place at the prestigious National Youth Theatre . |
| 8 | Critical respect is no problem — and the innovative video for his last album , Infected , even won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival , despite the troubling sexism of a couple of its sequences . |
| 9 | Undaunted by their failure to attract a buyer at the sale , Alexia Lindsay ( of the Ephemera stall ) drove them afterwards to Chorley in Lancashire , where a shop called Girls Gone By gave 200 for them . |
| 10 | D'Arcy cast a glance at the door . |
| 11 | His eyes made a swift study of her face , before he cast a glance at the sky . |
| 12 | It must be a trapped bird , he thought , noticing a door at the front where there was a partitioned-off section . |
| 13 | Hang on there 's got ta be something wrong there , that means I 'm only gon na need a box at the most , does n't it , hang on , let's write it out |
| 14 | They both entered a corridor at the same time , she going one way , he the other . |
| 15 | Eanflaed 's kinship with Oswine subsequently obliged Oswiu to found a monastery at the place of Oswine 's death at Gilling in Yorkshire in expiation of his murder ( HE 111 , 24 ) . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | There is a radioactive process — beta decay — which enables one of the protons to shed its charge , in effect becoming a neutron at the instant of fusing ( the electrical charge being carried off by a positively charged form of the electron , known as a positron ) , the proton and neutron fusing to make a deuteron and liberating energy . |
| 18 | Julia Roberts ' beauty did n't stop Pretty Woman becoming a smash at the box office . |
| 19 | Therefore , we decided to offer prolonged treatment to the remaining patients who approximated a response at the end of the scheduled therapy ( partial response ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Recognise that ’ — he jerked a thumb at the nearby flint-faced water tower poking its head above the railway line , the pride of its engineer , Thomas Crampton . |
| 21 | Curtis jerked a thumb at the empty doorway through which the doctor had just exited . |
| 22 | ‘ Yer man here — ’ he jerked a thumb at the bath' — lost most of his fingernails trying to hang on . |
| 23 | I jerked a thumb at the amateur newspaper vendor . |
| 24 | ’ He jerked a thumb at the Intensive Care doors . |
| 25 | Still to come a look at the opening shots in the Independent Enquiry into the fate of Rover 's Cowley works and the questions that Bicester 's friends of the earth say you must ask any candidate in the local elections . |
| 26 | Still to come a look at the day 's financial news and er sports news . |
| 27 | Still to come a look at the day 's sport , first financial report though in association with Barclay 's Bank for your financial needs . |
| 28 | Still to come a look at the day 's sport , and there 's a new signing for Oxford United . |
| 29 | You drew a blank at the Park Avenue apartment , I assume ? ’ |
| 30 | With a flourish he drew a line at the bottom , screwed on the top of his fountain pen and hooked it into a buckle on his braces . |