Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 They agreed to appear at a venue called Litchfields , basically a working men 's club on one of the town 's many estates .
6 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 .
7 Public sector workers tried to hit at the state with minimum disruption of services to consumers .
8 Boys 14 and 15 once tried to sit at the back of the coach but were rapidly sent to the front where , it was said , ‘ they always sat ’ .
9 None of the fathers ' job descriptions given on the birth certificate referred to work at a nuclear establishment .
10 On Monday morning , she reported to work at the Swift building on Des Voeux Road .
11 The man moved to stand at the top of the stairs , barring their way , and then he recognized the young man .
12 His hand under her arm steadied her as they moved to stand at the rail .
13 Penry Vaughan ducked his tall head through the doorway and moved to stand at the foot of the bed in the shadows beyond the arc of light from the small lamp .
14 The goat stopped abruptly and tried to chew at the hem of Mrs Hollidaye 's brown jacket .
15 He bent to the carabineer at his waist , and tried to chew at the knot , to make it more supple .
16 He bent to look at the fastening , then picked up one of the white stones and struck ; the glass tinkled thinly , a horrible sound .
17 Bettino Craxi , whose leadership of the Socialist Unity Party was under serious challenge [ see p. 39114 ] , announced on Nov. 7 that he proposed to resign at an unspecified date and suggested Prime Minister Giuliano Amato as his successor .
18 I tried to look at the scenery .
19 She tried to look at the thing calmly and sensibly , tried not to be aware of Deana and Sarah whispering at a table only a few yards distant , but felt too hurt and shocked to be rational .
20 Edouard was on horseback ; he stopped to look at the child , who was about eight or nine years old , and exceptionally beautiful .
21 If only one stopped to look at the shape of the garment and the stitch used , it might well be just what we have been looking for !
22 She stopped to look at the two houses , Brier and Rose , like identical twins wearing slightly different clothing so that one could tell them apart .
23 If people stopped to look at the borders alongside the house he would be perfectly charming ; if they did n't he would n't bother them .
24 He stopped to look at the house and saw below it , on the shore , a large rectangular basin which seemed to have been blasted out of the rock at the foot of the cliff .
25 ‘ We toured the Transport Museum , ’ said Peter , ‘ and Alexander Karaulov and I stopped to look at the autogyro on display .
26 I stopped to look at the shore .
27 ‘ What happened , ’ says an attendant parent , ‘ is that our defence stopped to look at the train .
28 we went to Trafalgar Square and we stopped to look at the pigeons and we 'd moved on and I , I suddenly realised I had n't got Vicky with me , so I looked all round , could n't see him , had to go right back to Trafalgar Square and he was still looking at the pigeons
29 After discussion with the therapist , Tony agreed to start searching for another job more systematically ; he proposed to look at the local newspapers twice a week for possible job vacancies .
30 The couple met when Heath stopped to help at an accident outside her home near Pontypridd , Mid-Glamorgan , the court heard .
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