Example sentences of "[verb] at some [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The secular decline in the Sinn Féin vote — from a peak of 13.4 per cent in 1983 to 10 per cent on April 9 — meant that Mr Adams ' seat would surely fall at some point .
2 This is why all of us will doubt at some point , whatever it is that we believe .
3 Her beauty had been something which had filled even herself with wonder ; sometimes in the privacy of her own room she would gaze at some part of herself , at a hand , say , or a breast , and the perfection of its shape would fill her with joy , as if it were not a part of herself but some natural object of beauty .
4 Clearly , the mill was largely rebuilt at some point in the 19th century , the brick-built section tying into the much older stone range .
5 Even in the throes of laughing at some remark passed by Grace Bird , Bunny watched Geoffrey .
6 When Dexter focused back on the conversation , Blanche was laughing at some joke of Eddy Russell 's that the sergeant had missed .
7 In the embryos of most insects evident rudiments of paired abdominal appendages appear at some stage during development .
8 Glastonbury held the door open while a walking-frame entered at some speed followed by its lean and dapper-looking proprietor .
9 Written by Sarah Daniels , it is being performed by Clean Break , a theatre company mounting professional productions performed by women who have been through the criminal justice system , including ex-prisoners , ex-probationers and those committed at some time to secure observation and psychiatric units .
10 Cashline machines will also be installed at some JET service stations if talks with another oil company — Conoco — are successful .
11 He had a good look at it and said part of the pedestal had been mended at some time which took away a lot of the value .
12 for example , to solve any design problem there has at some stage to be a switch from systems thinking to thinking in terms of physical entities because these are the things that can be created , precisely located and manipulated in the real world .
13 Almost every child , I imagine , has at some time owned a much-loved Teddy Bear .
14 ‘ Obviously I think about it , every East German has at some time thought about it , or still does .
15 Burnage Court , the big house in the picture hidden in trees at the end , has at some time been cruelly treated , with badly applied half-timbering on the ground floor and tile-hanging on the first .
16 Everyone in nursing has at some time experienced the abuse of power by someone more senior , and has been hurt by it , yet the system is difficult to modify .
17 The North Berwick line enjoys a spectacular claim to fame because it has at some time or other in its history been powered by every possible form of motive power ; horse , steam , diesel and electricity .
18 The syntactic component could look at all the word-pairs for each tag ending at some vertex in the graph and discard all but the highest scoring , based on the acoustic scores and the pair-wise probabilities , since , given this parsing method , no later information is relevant to the decision .
19 That old bugger Grunte had not included him in the invitation to dine at some poncy joint called La Noblesse , the smartest part of the Hospitality Inn .
20 Charles felt he must have heard Steen being interviewed at some stage on radio or television , because it was very familiar .
21 Over half of the staff of 62 were interviewed at some point , many more than once — a total of 66 interviews altogether .
22 I mean the idea of course is to try at some stage and run a trainer trainer 's course , so that we expand the number of people who can who can do the training .
23 This was a little unfortunate , the topic being one close to his lordship 's heart and one he was inclined to explicate at some length .
24 When the train stopped at some town in Kent I got off .
25 He will start on the substitutes ' bench and Souness said : ‘ The chances are good people will see Barnes involved at some stage . ’
26 All that can sensibly be said is that , given everything capitalism had gone through over the previous few years , a collapse of confidence was to be expected at some point .
27 At recent rates about 80 per cent of married women can expect to work at some time in their married lifetime ( Martin and Roberts 1984 ) .
28 No matter where you finally wind up in the advertising business , you will want to work at some stage in an agency to gain real insight into advertising and acquire first-rate skills ( and , hopefully , reputation ) that puts wheels under your career .
29 We shall consider at some length below circumstances under which this condition is met even when enforcement through the courts is not available .
30 They passed , apparently oblivious , intent only on their own business ; but hardly a soul in the village failed to pass at some time during that day , and not one missed a detail of what was there to be seen .
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