Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the feet were home-made boots with double tongues : ‘ They were made by the village cobbler and cost fourteen shillings : they 'd last about two years if you got them clumped at the end of the first year . ’ |
| 2 | Istvan Gati , as the Persian King , Orontes , is a sensational baritone with a clear , passionate tone , although his baritone Jozsef Moldvay sounds as though he has something stuck at the back o his mouth , a bit of dust maybe , which causes him to deliver the interpretation of his role in a somewhat unexpected manner . |
| 3 | Caroline found herself seated at the lunch-table next to Romano de Sciorto , a state of affairs which did nothing for her shaky morale . |
| 4 | ( Three separate negotiating teams were sent to each country tendering offers for the Urengoi gas pipeline , as a result of which the FRG , much to her surprise , found herself underbid at the end of the day . ) |
| 5 | John 's wife Clare has to stand outside the stable on a crate with Milton 's tail over the top of the stable door and pull it from there , while John has him twitched at the front end . |
| 6 | Has he looked at the way that they are used by individual police forces ? |
| 7 | Has anyone looked at the amount of sodium spectral orange that is transformed to microwaves in this way ? |
| 8 | One horrible night I found myself crouched at the door , listening for sounds of pain which would have given me pleasure , sounds of pleasure that would have hurt . |
| 9 | She 's gon na take them and do them , get them done at the thing and then take it home . |
| 10 | Can you sort of have you looked at the federation videos that we 've got now . |
| 11 | They may say , Oh wow no we 're just having something done at the surgery rebuilt . |
| 12 | Just knock down any scheme you do n't happen to like and have it rebuilt at the expense of the public purse , ’ says independent property consultant Jonathan Landes . |
| 13 | SERAFIN : ‘ From Greenwich to Westminster ’ — which I should think would involve somewhat similar considerations — ‘ even though it takes longer , even though I ca n't read or watch television to keep myself entertained at the same time , even though it demands a greater expenditure of concentration and nervous energy — and , one might possibly add , physical labour in pushing and pulling the various levers and pedals involved … ’ |
| 14 | And should the current two vacancies within the Windsor firm find themselves listed at the local Job Centre it 's impossible to calculate how many of the nation 's three million unemployed might apply . |
| 15 | When costs are so profitable why would they need full-time employees , they can just have us stood at the door any d any g at the gate any week they want , begging for a day 's work . |
| 16 | Sometimes far into the evening she kept herself locked at the desk , writing , writing . |
| 17 | And they got it done at the Registry , very quiet . |
| 18 | ‘ You write the specifications for her repairs , and I 'll guarantee to have them done at the best boatyard in America . ’ |
| 19 | If Tommaso had n't troubled to have me paged at the opera , you would certainly have performed coitus with this young woman and d'ye know what would have happened then ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm very optimistic that we can get the goals , but we do n't need to chase the game right from the start and leave ourselves exposed at the back . |
| 21 | Annie must have used the house-phone to have her paged at the restaurant . |
| 22 | Mrs Thatcher fought to have it put at the top of the agenda at the EC Summit in June 1989 . |
| 23 | In the Middle Ages these mills were the property of the lord of the manor who possessed ‘ soke rights ’ , which meant that anyone growing corn on his manor was obliged to have it ground at the lord 's mill because hand mills were outlawed . |
| 24 | if anybody can sort of if you write in English , maybe could send it to you , could get it translated at the Stortford , oh that might be very useful , erm , I mean , I 'll certainly do some letters and if anybody else wants to , if they let me know I 'll let them have the addresses for them , erm , there are fax as well and that suppose to be a quicker way than writing a letter actually than send through a fax , right , erm , if anybody can then we could send them to you and , and ask you to send it on , and we would sort of postage , would be covered would it Margaret ? |
| 25 | In fact , everything you need to get yourself noticed at the top . |
| 26 | I had them processed at the one-hour place , cost me a fortune but … |
| 27 | Had she looked at the living Rachaela as now Rachaela looked at Ruth ? |
| 28 | What had they said at the last ? |
| 29 | ‘ What I 'd like you to know is that when it was all over and Peter was back from America , the grave-diggers were down here on their bended knees begging him for forgiveness because they knew it was a nasty business and said had they known at the time they 'd have had nothing to do with it . ’ |
| 30 | This was by far London 's worst display and it leaves them rooted at the foot of the European Division with a 1–2 record . |