Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some executives may resign at a Daiwa board meeting that is due to be held on May 18th . |
| 2 | Ashley was glaring at me over the candle flame the way a hawk must glare at a field mouse the instant before it parts mouse from field forever . |
| 3 | If the money was there , I think we should look at a link . |
| 4 | ‘ If the money was there I think we should look at a link . ’ |
| 5 | If you can not have a separate freezer you should look at a refrigerator with maximum freezer space and capacious food storage compartments . |
| 6 | There are literally hundreds of these , and you should look at a catalogue of the Central Statistical Office to see what is available . |
| 7 | You must look at a film of him and do all you can to emulate his behaviour . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ In about an hour and a quarter , the coach should stop at a signpost about five miles from here . |
| 9 | I think maybe I should stop at a supermarket . |
| 10 | Mr Patten says the government must move at a pace it can afford . |
| 11 | ‘ Every estate which must expire at a period certain and prefixed , by whatever words created , is an estate for years . |
| 12 | If I should tell at a tea table in London , that I have crossed the Atlantick in an open boat , how they 'd shudder , and what a fool they 'd think me to expose myself to such danger . ’ |
| 13 | The aerial , a 0–9 metre dish , must point at a satellite hovering in space between 17° and 28° above the horizon . |
| 14 | Special considerations : the appellant was originally put on probation with a requirement that he should reside at a probation hostel which specialised in providing treatment for young men guilty of indecent assault . |
| 15 | Where we may feel at a disadvantage compared with moral absolutists with fixed standards is not in the claim to objectivity but in the sense of certainty . |
| 16 | She glanced briefly at Twoflower , as one might look at a piece of furniture , then glared down at the man on the bed . |
| 17 | ‘ We 'll stop at a drive-in , and then what say about a nice , quiet park ? ’ |
| 18 | Between three and four hours later they 'll arrive at a point about thirty miles from here . ’ |
| 19 | On the first floor one might sit at a table overlooking the Bay while enjoying a Swanage lobster salad or a delicious cream tea . |
| 20 | Reviewing a biography by Phyllis Willmott of social work administrator Geraldine Aves , he threw out an impressively succinct characterisation of the Seebohm Report , which , as one might say at a BASW workshop , I want to share with you . |
| 21 | You wo n't tear any major muscle groups laughing during Crimes and Misdemeanours or Hannah and her Sisters , for example ; but you may marvel at a film-maker at the height of his powers . |
| 22 | ‘ A cat may look at a King ’ |
| 23 | Your employer may look at a variety of alternative sanctions . |
| 24 | But a cat may look at a queen . |
| 25 | A cat may look at a queen . |
| 26 | He says that a person could stay at a hotel with his own doctor and nurse cheaper than that . |
| 27 | That 's right , that 's right , yes , how we consume these products , yes , I mean , you 're right , so a potato is a potato is a potato , but if it 's pre-packed , graded and washed , that is sort of intrinsically different from er , er , sort of , mouldy , scruffy old potatoes that you could buy at a greengrocer . |
| 28 | The invisible powers of nature were analogous to the visible powers of the magnet , which could act at a distance and penetrate matter with its rays . |
| 29 | ( c ) The matrix could yield at a strain lower than that required for fibril yield . |
| 30 | She could look at a row of colours for hours and never be bored . |