Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] at [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Most people tend to gather at the track and do the group session , without even stopping to think what the training effect is doing to their body , or how they are going to progress next week , or the week after . ’ |
| 2 | Nevertheless , clauses 9.1 and 9.2 are dangerous as a tenant will prefer to know at the outset whether any defects affect the premises and the tenant 's solicitor should amend them as follows : |
| 3 | He did not want to appear at a loss or to let his followers down . |
| 4 | Since older miners were usually no longer fit to work at the coal-face and did less well-remunerated jobs on or near the surface , this meant that in old age — if they reached it — their pensions were to be a calculated on the basis of their more poorly paid years at work ! |
| 5 | For now the point is that the drafter needs to know at the outset whether any of the business 's customers will fall within the definition of " consumer " : if so , care must be taken in drafting clauses excluding or limiting liability . |
| 6 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |
| 7 | I erm unfortunately , er , agree with the previous speaker that a very strong calvinistic streak runs through me and I believe in the two parent family and also in the efforts that you should make to keep the family ge together , but I think too , there 's sp , er , perceptions of individuals and particularly , younger generations now in society , are so much different from my own perceptions when I initially became married and started my own family but what society has to look at the perceptions and expectations of the individuals in society . |
| 8 | Now in this first session I really want to look at the way that er er financial planning will affect you once you , once you retire , it may be that 's the sort of area you 've not looked at in detail . |
| 9 | ‘ You want to look at the toys while I go in here ? ’ |
| 10 | You 're supposed to write the minutes for this meeting on the back of the agenda , now , I know very few people who ever actually do that , er , I always want to look at the agenda when I 'm taking my notes . |
| 11 | I think you 'd really have to you 'd probably need to look at the booklet and then speak to erm one of the Prudential people about you know the amount of time you were considering paying contributions and the probably just weigh up the benefits of of each scheme . |
| 12 | we went to Trafalgar Square and we stopped to look at the pigeons and we 'd moved on and I , I suddenly realised I had n't got Vicky with me , so I looked all round , could n't see him , had to go right back to Trafalgar Square and he was still looking at the pigeons |
| 13 | He stopped to look at the house and saw below it , on the shore , a large rectangular basin which seemed to have been blasted out of the rock at the foot of the cliff . |
| 14 | The programme was designed to look at the skills and knowledge needed by hospitality industry managers , at all levels in every sector of the profession , to operate successfully within Britain and Continental Europe . |
| 15 | He had expected to stay at the Dog and Gun , a tavern well known for its radical associations , where unstamped , illegal newspapers had always been laid out openly on the bar-counter for the perusal of anyone so inclined . |
| 16 | They are said to have disagreed on the ceremony of ordination for a bishop , Rome requiring at least three other bishops to be present while the Celtic Church required only one — a plausible enough position , given the difficulties Ireland posed to travel at the time and the small number of bishops in the country anyway . |
| 17 | In the event , Paris was saved because Galliéni recognized that the moment had come to strike at the Germans when Kluck , wheeling northeast of the city , exposed his right flank to the Sixth Army . |
| 18 | The child who refuses to sit at the table or in a high chair These children may be showing specific food-related problems or the difficulty may be part of a much wider behavioural and emotional problem . |
| 19 | Nominations for the LASMO Staffa Music Award were invited from the United Kingdom 's top music colleges and five finalists have already been selected to perform at a competition and festival of music . |
| 20 | Dr Hunter came to look at the neck and shoulders . |
| 21 | Children came to laugh at the animals as they rocked autistically or broke into tantrums ; creatures accustomed to marking out miles of territory in a single day were now constrained to prowl and circle in a few narrow yards . |
| 22 | The BRDC directors , urgently seeking to fund improvements at Silverstone , asked to look at the deal and went ahead without consulting their members . |
| 23 | There are still areas where we tend to look at the other as ‘ the resident expert ’ , or at least more expert than we consider ourself to be . |
| 24 | So one turns to look at the statute that governs the practice on the criminal side , section 23 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 : |
| 25 | Returning to the Rossiya and not daring to look at the men and women who stood and swayed beside him . |
| 26 | Although it 's two years later they 've got to resell at the price that er it 's been discounted more or less . |
| 27 | ( At one conference delegates were told to talk at the floor because Special Branch had hi-tech microphones trained on the windows to catch the sound-waves . ) |
| 28 | This is the first of a series of programmes in which we 're going to look at the computer and its impact on our lives . |
| 29 | I believe that er we did n't er consider going to look at the development because it was quite clearly in the minds of a large percentage of us that it was contrary to the town plan and so we did not think it was necessary to do that . |
| 30 | Mr Bush announced that Mrs Black had agreed to help at the school as there would be an extra seventy children attending . |