Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Southall , who admitted speeding at an earlier hearing , was fined Pounds 700 and given six penalty points . |
| 2 | A large number wish to continue working as long as they are fit and do not want to retire at the state pension age . |
| 3 | ‘ There is no definite plan … if you were going to , you would want to go at the top , and we are still growing . ’ |
| 4 | The Sainsbury 's application is the latest to go to appeal at a public inquiry . |
| 5 | My husband and I take turns to sit at the stall . |
| 6 | Through Clennam , Cavaletto goes to lodge at the Plornishes , enabling Mrs Plornish ( Sally , except in chap . |
| 7 | That Arthur 'ad stopped at a pub on 'is way to the church , 'e said 'e needed fortifyin' , and 'im and 'is best man both went in the pub an' stayed there a lot longer than they should of . |
| 8 | And I reckoned that if a star got stopped at the edge , I 'd be safe , what with my rocket and all . ’ |
| 9 | Against these dramatic changes , we intend to remain at the centre as an effective resource for the voluntary sector , and an important bridge between the sector and others . |
| 10 | Despite intensive pressure to resign in the aftermath of the serious rioting of late April and early May — itself a product of the acquittal of those officers accused of assaulting King — and police failings which the unrest revealed [ see pp. 38856 ; 38894 ] , King continued to prevaricate until June 8 when he finally agreed to go at the end of the month . |
| 11 | For the Nonconformist minister as well as for the man in the pew , preaching lay at the heart of chapel life . |
| 12 | ‘ Most people tend to gather at the track and do the group session , without even stopping to think what the training effect is doing to their body , or how they are going to progress next week , or the week after . ’ |
| 13 | Other work , such as McCabe and Mrs Miller , The Long Goodbye , and Nashville , although warmly received by the critics , failed to perform at the box office . |
| 14 | Hartley 's philosophy was in fact an early form of the twentieth-century scheme of mental association known as Behaviourism ( Pavlov 's dogs were taught to salivate at the sound of an electric bell ) , and if writing today he would presumably have compared the brain to a computer . |
| 15 | His ill-looks are a punishment received when he failed to appear at a fairy festival , preferring to spend his time with a mortal maiden . |
| 16 | Having attended the first General Commissioners ' hearing on 10 April 1991 , the debtor and his accountant failed to appear at the adjourned hearing on 19 June 1991 . |
| 17 | Apart from generalities relating to balanced inclined planes , one patent sought to protect details of the lift as a whole ; the second sought to protect the device of gradually reducing the gradient of the upper end of the incline to balance the apparent loss in weight of the descending tank as it became immersed at the lower level . |
| 18 | They agreed to appear at a venue called Litchfields , basically a working men 's club on one of the town 's many estates . |
| 19 | I knew that it would at the very least be fun to fail again , however effortlessly , and we agreed to meet at a pub in Barnes on the following evening . |
| 20 | 53 ( 1 ) ( c ) [ A ] disposition of an equitable interest or trust subsisting at the time of the disposition , must be in writing signed by the person disposing of the same , or by his agent thereunto lawfully authorised in writing or by will . |
| 21 | The crucial events around which the case centred occurred at a dinner party given by the General , when Aitken and some others were present . |
| 22 | They would 've looked at the lights , I know . |
| 23 | Maintenance grants remain frozen at a maximum of £2,845 for students in London and £2,265 for those studying elsewhere . |
| 24 | NOW YOU 'VE stopped laughing at the idea of Kevin Costner in tights , you can have a chuckle at the cast rumoured to be lined up for his Robin Hood movie Prince Of Thieves — Danny DeVito ( above ) as Friar Tuck , either Patsy Kensit , Emily Lloyd or Imogen Stubbs as Maid Marian and as Robin 's big buddy Little John , John Goodman , who is reported to have been paid $750,000 just to stay interested in playing Fred Flintstone while the producers look for a script |
| 25 | They had arranged to meet at a pub in Soho , not far from Helen 's flat . |
| 26 | Supposing , just supposing , that Mackay and Parsons had arranged to meet at the cottage . |
| 27 | They had arranged to meet at the Metropole Hotel . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , clauses 9.1 and 9.2 are dangerous as a tenant will prefer to know at the outset whether any defects affect the premises and the tenant 's solicitor should amend them as follows : |
| 29 | He did not want to appear at a loss or to let his followers down . |
| 30 | AT the age of 80 the Rev. Anthony Cunningham has jumped at the chance of a new job . |