Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He banged down the rucksack and the basket he had been carrying and looked without liking at the unencumbered Beuno . |
| 2 | Tinbergen , for example , presented model bills of adult herring gulls ( Larus argentatus ) to the chicks of that species ; the chicks responded by pecking at the red spot at the top of the bill , which strongly suggests that the red spot is a signal , meaning ‘ start pecking ’ ( Figure 6.1 ) . |
| 3 | We thought we had an enormous pile but unfortunately our fire was not very long lasting and by 6 o'clock we were wandering about looking at the other , more professionally built conflagrations . |
| 4 | ‘ No more than usual in a prison this size , ’ the Governor answered without looking at the other man . |
| 5 | then it may be appropriate for it to progress to operating at the skilful stage . |
| 6 | Sargent 's suggested solution to this problem can be seen by looking at the simple n = 3 case , which led to the restrictions of equation ( 3.50 ) . |
| 7 | No longer can the worth of an investment proposal be evaluated by looking at the immediate terms of the deal : the longer lasting impact of the structure of alliances must also be taken into account . |
| 8 | You 've got ta look at the same as . |
| 9 | We begin by looking at the negative emotions . |
| 10 | Editor , — Reviewing our book , Emily Grundy wrote : ‘ They … contend that there are no grounds for speaking of aging at the cellular level . ’ |
| 11 | Instead , our precise conclusion was that ‘ the probability of cell death does not increase with the age of the culture ; ie , there are no grounds for speaking of aging at the cellular level ’ ( p 216 ) . |
| 12 | Gumperz approaches the pragmatics of code switching by looking at the social significance of each language or code , the content of the utterance and the code of that utterance . |
| 13 | Though Hitchcock himself toured the locations in Denmark , East Germany and Sweden , he settled for filming at the Universal lot in the San Fernando valley . |
| 14 | So really starting towards looking at the different nature of strategies the new one would have . |
| 15 | The height of the embankment can be judged by looking at the elevated section of the M6 which now runs beside the canal but which can be seen moving away to the northwest as a two tier motorway junction viaduct on spindly columns . |
| 16 | The very considerable size of this achievement can be appreciated by looking at the hydrostatic pressure undersea cables may have to endure — up to 4t/in2 , at a depth of three miles . |
| 17 | A causal explanation for these events is not to be found by looking at the mental processes of particular social groups or categories involved in them since any traits so identified are as likely to be effects as causes . |
| 18 | What is the solution to these problems of unity and sustaining interest ? I think it can best be found by looking at the visual arts , and having myself once been an architect I would like to use an architectural illustration . |
| 19 | At this point , ‘ Dr Johnson observed that there had been great disputes about the spelling of Shakespear 's [ sic ] name : ‘ At last it was thought it would be settled by looking at the original copy of his will ; but , upon examining it , he was found to have written it himself no less than three different ways . ’ |
| 20 | The associated jargon and rates may be introduced by looking at the following figures for 1984 extracted from Tables D1.1 and D2.1 of the 1984 Annual Report of the Registrar General for Scotland . |
| 21 | Now we continue by looking at the inside workings of the process at the national level , beginning with a discussion of executives and assemblies . |
| 22 | Thus in He can sing the incidence of " sing " to " he " exists as a potential in the present : the person referred to possesses at the present moment the capacity of realizing this action . |
| 23 | J.S. When someone who has cancer is finally dying , that 's one thing , but many families go into mourning at the first diagnosis as a form of disavowing their own pain and fears . |
| 24 | There is little to be gained from looking at the past achievements of a school if the head and the governors treat their task as having been totally defined by the Education Reform Act . |
| 25 | So in the end he took to pointing at the last and most precious of " the possessions " … tiger-skins , bookcases full of elevating and instructional volumes , embroidered samplers , teasets of bone china , humidors and candlesticks , mounted elephants ' feet , and rowing-oars with names of college eights inscribed in gilt paint ; the ladies were instructed to improvise sandbags out of linen sheets and pillowslips and fine lace tablecloths . |
| 26 | In the last month before war was declared , families who were still on the waiting list for places on the Kindertransporte , but knew they had little chance of moving up the queue , took to waiting at the main rail stations , watching and hoping . |
| 27 | Farmers argued that as their day already began at sunrise , they would gain nothing and would also lose an hour for their workers insisted on finishing at the same time as town dwellers . |
| 28 | ‘ I disapprove of killing at the best of times , Ace , but , and this is vitally important , you must never kill anyone with a role in recorded history if you can possibly avoid it . |
| 29 | I take in my opinion the size , scale of settlement that is being pursued by erm North Yorkshire is of sufficient size , erm my experience erm are twelve fifty to fifteen hundred new settlement is sort of of a size that can sustain a reasonable balance of community facilities , I think in looking at the new village and in the context of P P G thirteen its highway implications , we see from table one of er Mr Curtis 's supplementary statement that public transport , I E bus and train , in terms of journeys to work to the Greater York area amounts to about eight percent of all journeys made , now I think if we were to follow Mr Curtis 's view through and put all development on the periphery of York , if we put two hundred to the North , two hundred to the East , two hundred to the South and so on and so forth , the contribution that those , that new housing can make to improving the public transport system , will be very small , if you concentrate your developments in a new settlement , or or maybe two new settlements which is another point , erm you have a better opportunity to provide a public transport system which would not only serve that new village , but also settlements in the surroundings , and I think you will find that the percentage of people in the new village who are reliant on public transport as a means of getting to work is greater that what you find in the Greater York area at the present time . |
| 30 | If you do n't know a priori where the break will come , right , only we can get some , you can get a handle where the break in this series may come by looking at the rolling regression like you did last week . |