Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nipples do n't twinkle — you must have fallen asleep looking at the fairy lights on the Christmas tree , ’ she scoffed . |
| 2 | Then , there is the real possibility that a serious defeat for the government could result in a general election and , under the British system , the opposition , just as much as the government , would prefer this to happen at a time favourable to themselves . |
| 3 | You want this added at the end of roman numeral four . |
| 4 | Thames Water has already bought five houses on the proposed site and says it will still buy those affected at the going market rate . |
| 5 | Union officials at the plant have been called to a conference in Nottingham , but management say most work at the plant is already funded from abroad . |
| 6 | ‘ You mean , if you cut that picture up into four — which would be a distinctly pro-life act if you want my opinion and gave it to four different restorers , they 'd each stop at a different point ? ’ |
| 7 | Ahmed liked to be laughed at , but he was a peasant and Nour was , in his own estimation , a prince and I was of an English generation which would have felt free to laugh at the Grand Turk if it had been so inclined . |
| 8 | Fares paid cover those incurred at the beginning and end of the contract for the employee and his dependants ; host country arrival and departure expenses and the employer may pay home-leave fares and disturbance allowances . |
| 9 | When they 'd first arrived at the Base , she had quite liked the old Administrator , but since Paula 's death he 'd changed . |
| 10 | WavePhore Inc unveiled at the National Association of Broadcasters Convention its new proprietary high speed TVT1 data wireless transmitter . |
| 11 | You obviously have to work it out in some way , but you seem able to arrive at the answer almost instantly . |
| 12 | Erm and I really want to I will build up some more time but I have n't got any to take at the moment . |
| 13 | We have n't got any left at the moment but |
| 14 | Yes , I 've got four going at the moment , actually . |
| 15 | Yes , I 've got four going at the moment actually , it 's rather ludicrous really . |
| 16 | You both need to do this to work at the principle of conciliation . |
| 17 | That is the basis of the famous " niche " strategy which means that you secure for yourself a useful market by doing something which the big boys find uneconomical to do at the price you can manage . |
| 18 | Some economists feel deep disquiet at the use of food grains to produce motor spirit . |
| 19 | And I still feel able to play at the highest level . ’ |
| 20 | This meant the Government would have less to announce at the unified Budget in November , when tax and spending plans will be unveiled together for the first time . |
| 21 | The whole of Britain … seems to have caught it … the symptoms … you hear a racing car at full throttle in the ears … you go misty eyed at the sight of union jacks waving in the wind and then you start talking … rambling about red five … its a new disease … they 're calling it Mansell Mania … |
| 22 | To the North American , his South American counterpart comes too close for comfort whereas the South American feels uneasy conversing at the distance his partner demands . |
| 23 | Martha felt ready to weep at the unfairness of it . |
| 24 | It got harder to laugh at the weekly brace of ‘ Kurt Is Dead ’ stories when various credible sources were whispering about Cobain and partner Courtney Love doing heroin together , about them being completely out of it all at their wedding in Hawaii , about them going into detox and then quitting . |
| 25 | My sympathy lies squarely with those who refused to be part of the South African sham in order to remain eligible to play at the highest level , but who now find that they will probably lose that chance . |
| 26 | Now the important thing about the toxin is not so much that it can paralyse its victim , but that biologists can use it , and they can use it because it 's possible to label the toxin radioactively and then employ this to look at the distribution of receptors in patients with miocenia and characterise the receptors in other ways . |
| 27 | Years later , long after Tam was " deed " , I did some research at the Black Watch archives in Perth and was assured that no such thing could ever have happened . |
| 28 | Well er to me it does n't quite ring true , it 's always been the boys ' ploughing match and it always will be as far as I 'm concerned but I think this happened at the time post war I ca n't say exactly which year , when the date was changed from easter time to August . |
| 29 | If anything happened to the computer and it proved impossible to get at the data inside , you could go to your back-up diskettes and simply copy the data back into the computer when it had been repaired , or replaced , or put it onto another computer . |
| 30 | He was sitting still looking at the book with an Art-Is Wonderful air about him ( for my benefit , not because he believes it , of course ) . |