Example sentences of "[to-vb] at things " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie had to work at things because Mitch was very different from his usual amusing self . |
| 2 | He obviously has heeded Ruskin 's advice not just to look at things but to ‘ watch ’ them . |
| 3 | Through this method you stimulate the person to look at things afresh and to think aloud . |
| 4 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 5 | The full length mirror can be a great help by enabling the child to look at things he is wearing which he may be trying to describe . |
| 6 | ‘ I started to look at things a bit differently after that , and it certainly seems to have worked for me . ’ |
| 7 | Yet he was not a Christian , to look at things in this light . |
| 8 | If you 're raising a particular point and the reason that we 're here this evening is to look at things that people are raising we 'll look at that report we 'll look at the point your raising and er we 'll we 'll see if it validity to it . |
| 9 | I aim to help them learn to look at things right , that 's all . " |
| 10 | There 's hardly any of the usual vertigo effect , when I 'm trying to see things he 's not looking at , when I 'm trying to look at things he 's not seeing . |
| 11 | ‘ I mean that someone , somewhere , might want us to look at things in a particular way . ’ |
| 12 | I used to look at things and think how bonny some of the wild flowers were what nice colours — but I was never aware of their variety or rarity . |
| 13 | If we are prepared to look at things in that light then the range of choice becomes much wider . |
| 14 | Seeing that point of view does not mean agreeing with it or even empathising with it : it simply means being able to see what the view is — to look at things from that viewpoint . |
| 15 | " You have to look at things like lighting , the height , colour and texture of the various plants or furnishings , and how you want to use the area — all the practical aspects of it . |
| 16 | One , we 're going to look at why well trained staff are , are so important to the C U , secondly we 're going to look at things responsibility training is and lastly we want to look at a systematic approach that you can take as training . |
| 17 | So and our company tends to look at things more on the short term . |
| 18 | I suppose well my children would say my answer to everything is to say to them breathe , you know , and erm you know just do very simple relaxation if nothing else , and then that allows you maybe to start looking at other things , but to get to the state where you can begin to look at things without the fears and emotions getting in the way . |
| 19 | I mean look at myself , my father was a doctor , his father was a schoolteacher , so the way one used to look at things , that immediately when I was born put me in the middle class erm bracket . |