Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But have you got a form or something to get at the garage ? |
| 2 | Of course I admit there 's an alcohol problem , but then again it tends to look worse than it is because the res is dry so everyone congregates at the nearest bar , which is two miles south , in Nebraska . |
| 3 | The three glossed signs from transcript 1 ( KNOCKED , CAME , WHAT ? ) represent three propositions with the meaning that someone knocked at the door , the person inside came and tried to find out what it was . |
| 4 | At the simplest level this means deciding that someone wearing , say , a skirt in our society is female and acting on the basis of this decision , or deciding that someone shouting at the top of his or her voice is excited or angry and acting accordingly . |
| 5 | There are two possible ways in which the bells can be arranged so that someone arriving at the door can signal their arrival to a person in a specific apartment . |
| 6 | Haitink is not one given to lofty poetics ( try the decidedly unmagical , if immaculately balanced gossamer string texturing of [ iii ] ) , nor outbursts of uncontrollable excitement ( close of [ i ] ) , yet the fact that one arrives at the finale with one 's emotions reasonably intact pays dividends in the long-term , especially as the conductor and the BPO ( on stunning form , incidentally ) raise the emotional temperature several notches for this glorious movement . |
| 7 | In Raymond Aron 's words , ‘ The essence of capitalist exchange is to proceed from money to money by way of commodity and end up with more money than one had at the outset ’ . |
| 8 | The author of a recent book on the history of clocks and their influence on the modern world has remarked that anyone looking at the techniques of time measurement throughout the world in , say , the eleventh century ‘ would have given odds that the Chinese would develop a mechanical clock well before the Europeans ’ . |
| 9 | Rain suggested Cobalt carried on well past the Jonquil so that anyone arriving at the boat would not see the car and guess they were there . |
| 10 | Salinity on the density surface at the eastern end of the north section ( Fig. 2 b ) are higher than anything seen at the LSW source ( Fig. 2 a ) implying that mixing has taken place . |
| 11 | And everyone froze at the Las Vegas meeting to view triumphant Nina 's outfit . |
| 12 | At this there was a loud outburst of laughter , and everyone looked at a girl sitting at the back , who , scarlet in the face , ran out of the room , sobbing . |
| 13 | And the answer 'll be no , cos nothing has at the moment . |
| 14 | The stones at its margins were bleached like bones and nothing grew at the water 's edge except rank thickets of bamboo . |
| 15 | And Joe waited , cruelly , and nothing happened at the other end of the line . |
| 16 | ‘ Everyone was looking for reasons why he left us and no-one appreciated at the time that his health was suffering . |
| 17 | If someone stands at the front of the play , at the front of the stage and says , you know , I believe in democracy , then you know you are let into a political play , yeah . |
| 18 | High heels pattered across the cloakroom floor and someone pushed at the toilet door . |
| 19 | The Centre asked for two studies ; one on terms of survival , and one looking at the quality of life ( though the latter has never gone beyond the pilot stage ) . |
| 20 | And one looks at the two most likely existing settlements on which you could do that to are , of course , Easingwold , to the Nor to the Northwest , and Tadcaster to the South . |
| 21 | And one standing at the gate |
| 22 | there 's usually two racing together in this one , but they 're in separate tracks and one starts at the outside track |
| 23 | If something happens at the school or to someone associated with it which may reflect badly give facts but no opinions . |
| 24 | I then went down to Athens , to the National Museum , and was very impressed by the great display of Cycladic material there , and also by how little was known about the Cyclades if one looked at the literature of the time . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the company 's financial controller said that , if one looked at the methods used by the cost accountant at the pre-investment ( i.e. product-design ) stage , it was clear that the notions of activity-based costing did receive careful consideration , before approval of the product design and projected product prices used in the investment appraisal . |
| 26 | Suppose that one set the pendulum in motion , waited long enough for transients to die away , and then attempted to predict ( on the basis of previous experience ) what one would observe if one looked at the pendulum . |
| 27 | Yes the particular item that was deleted was known as the combat override facility which erm was really a trade off erm to provide extra thrust against the reduced life of the engine and clearly if one operates at the top end of the engine spectrum in er hotter conditions and higher er R P M then clearly the life of the engine will be reduced . |
| 28 | If one looks at a map of the line , bridge No 352 carried the country road from Rothley plain to Swithland village , beneath the line at Swithland sidings . |
| 29 | One wonders how often our players play in tournaments for if one looks at the tennis results in the daily newspapers one seldom sees the letters G.B. behind the player 's name , and if we do , seldom does it appear past the first round . |
| 30 | If one looks at the figures presented at Budget time for the previous financial year , for the financial year 1967/1968 , it is pretty clear in broad terms on what scale the process had been in operation . |