Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] at [art] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think one wants to go at a time when people still want you to stay , rather than stay until people want you to go . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The defendants were members of the Musicians ' Union , a union with many coloured members , and they gave notice to the plaintiffs that members of the union would not be permitted to play at the ballroom so long as the colour bar was in operation . |
| 4 | Certainly the request of staff then could turn into of the panel erm but but I think at the same time if people want to look at the structure so that they have a complete view of the structural organisation |
| 5 | Oh yes I mean Then er we had the Christmas Fair meeting of which maybe you want to look at the minutes now . |
| 6 | She tried to look at the thing calmly and sensibly , tried not to be aware of Deana and Sarah whispering at a table only a few yards distant , but felt too hurt and shocked to be rational . |
| 7 | The social composition of admitted solicitors is remarkably similar to the profile of law students , but the socialization process involved in qualifying to practise at the Bar dramatically increases the preponderance of persons from professional and managerial backgrounds . |
| 8 | Usually , the m-derived section is designed to resonate at a frequency just outside the pass band of the prototype so that its strong resonant attenuation coincides with the range of weakest attenuation of the prototype . |
| 9 | This chart is designed to show at a glance exactly how many rooms have been let and exactly how many rooms are still available to be let and their type . |
| 10 | He stopped to peer at the pool below through a ‘ crack ’ in the water , rather as though someone was peeping through lace curtains . |
| 11 | Satisfied , she slipped on her jacket and picked up her handbag , pausing to look at the diary once more and its mysterious entry : |
| 12 | Will my right hon. Friend undertake to look at the question afresh , please ? |
| 13 | If you started from the insect , and jumped like a demented flea half a trillion times , you could expect to arrive at the fox once . |
| 14 | Jim had decided to stay at a hotel there till his car was mended . |
| 15 | Yeah and the thing is also being new to driving you tend to look at the headlights rather than look away from them . |
| 16 | ( Most handlers tend to look at the horse instead , which merely makes him point more agitatedly . ) |
| 17 | The survey was a comparison between self-service and counter-service grocers and the student was puzzled that the old lady claimed to shop at a counter-service yet all her answers suggested that she used a self-service shop . |
| 18 | Morse turned to look at the waters once more before he left , then sat silently in the passenger-seat of the police car as Lewis had a final word with Sergeant Dixon . |
| 19 | And at that moment , as he turned to look at the girl again with a glint of admiration in his eyes , Ronni was aware of a reaction deep inside her . |
| 20 | Lucille stopped , turned to look at the girl once more then , intuitively , she knew the answer and looked for confirmation into d'Alembord 's worried face . |
| 21 | McIllvanney said angrily , then turned to look at the yard where a silver-grey stretch limo , its windows tinted black against the sun , rolled ponderously to park beside the stairs to his office . |
| 22 | You could decide to work at a time when your partner or a friend is round to see the baby , or arrange for someone — a childminder or relative — to look after her for a few hours each week . |
| 23 | In his Sonnets Shakespeare achieved the rather remarkable feat of turning to new and individual ends a genre that had flourished throughout Europe for several centuries and was in effect beginning to die at the time when he wrote , in the mid 1590s . |
| 24 | However , by late 1206 , it is likely that Innocent sensed that Otto 's cause was lost , for in a letter of probably August 1206 to the patriarch of Aquileia , Philip is called princeps and no longer dux , but he proceeded cautiously , aiming to arrive at a point where he might arbitrate between the parties . |
| 25 | ‘ Come on , ’ said Jimmy , and began to tug at the cabinet again . |
| 26 | In the more seasonal forests , hummingbirds may be migratory , but in all forests they tend to breed at the time when the flowers on which they depend are most abundant , though as with the thrips and the Shorea species , there is some staggering of flowering times and avoidance of competition for pollinators between plants . |
| 27 | For instance , a pupil with hemianopia or a diminished visual field may have to sit at an angle rather than square to the blackboard in order to use remaining vision usefully to discriminate what is on it . |
| 28 | In the bond market , the Bank does not actively try to sell at a time when prices are falling ; indeed its spokesmen have often asserted that it can not sell in such conditions , that the views of investors in the short-term are predominantly extrapolative and that few will wish to buy stock when the price is falling . |
| 29 | It is n't and you do n't have to stab at the keyboard so as to press both keys at exactly the same time . |
| 30 | You should try to look at the situation objectively and philosophically , and , if you can , keep a sense of humour . |