Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [to-vb] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You obviously have to work it out in some way , but you seem able to arrive at the answer almost instantly .
2 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 .
3 Martha felt ready to weep at the unfairness of it .
4 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 .
5 A long arm , seeming likely to snap at the wrist from the excessive weight of a diamond bracelet , was raised in what she thought might be a greeting , but ended in a gesture to brush a wisp of free-flowing grey hair from in front of the Baronessa 's eyes .
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