Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] at the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women 's ability to contribute towards the cost is assessed and she needs to know at the outset what she will be asked to pay . |
| 2 | To see how destructive such an inflation can be , one only has to look at the hyperinflation which occurred in Germany in 1922–23 . |
| 3 | And then er part B bundles one , two and three er my Lord you want to look at the documentation which is dealing specifically with the purchase of the wine bar . |
| 4 | We must have looked pathetic because the man paused , looking at us , then he turned to Dad and said if Dad promised to call at the office he would n't report the matter . |
| 5 | Later he came to work at the house which was his first entry into Local Government . |
| 6 | When fire protection officials came to look at the dump they discovered mattresses deposited by a bed company , furniture and even potentially hazardous oil cans . |
| 7 | She was pretending to look at the people who were passing in the street , but Burun was not deceived . |
| 8 | When he and my mother came to live at the house he bought five Aylesbury ducks to swim on the pond and clear it of weed . |
| 9 | He says : ‘ SCL asked to look at the deal I was putting together and straight away they said the biggest problem is conflict of interests . |
| 10 | I welcome the initiative that have already been started within the County and I shall be going to look at the site which is being offered to us , er but I do feel that we should be progressing these matters as soon as possible . |
| 11 | I would like to look at the people who are being cared for , the people that we 're talking about , are the elderly , quite often these people have lived through two world wars and given up their young married life , they have brought up their children through the bleak days of the general strike , is it right that these people have to suffer the indignity of charity hand-outs ? |
| 12 | Silence spread slowly across the supper tables as the hundreds of guests turned to stare at the Rifleman who , in turn , searched the supper tables for a particular person . |
| 13 | Breeze turned to glance at the man who had just entered the shop , and saw that it was Roger Kenyon . |
| 14 | But this talk about ‘ a frontier which is perceived from both sides ’ makes it sound as if in addition to the physical eye which I can use to get at the pin there is a sort of phantom eye in my skull with which I can see what goes on under my skin . |
| 15 | She turned to gaze at the man who 'd approached silently and stood a little behind her on her left . |
| 16 | The answer is that even if everyone playing cards always had a certain sort of feeling when they trumped an opponent 's card and had another , different , feeling when they revoked , it would still be the case that to understand what it is to trump , and to revoke , we would have to look at the game itself , that is , at the use of trump-cards in the game . |
| 17 | One does not have to look at the report which the hon. Member for Gordon has thrown away with such disdain . |
| 18 | I invariably sat at the back of the class for reasons not unconnected with gang warfare , and if I needed to glance at the blackboard there was always someone to show me roughly where it was . |
| 19 | I invariably sat at the back of the class for reasons not unconnected with gang warfare , and if I needed to glance at the blackboard there was always someone to show me roughly where it was . |
| 20 | I once specially asked for him to be there and then demanded to know at the rehearsal who was this man sitting with the flutes . |
| 21 | ‘ I know , because one day when we went to look at the airport I saw water on the other side , by the road . |
| 22 | Then , knowing what we want the group to achieve , set a transfer price that gets each division to decide to operate at the volume we want . |
| 23 | she said what , what agenda do you want , so I said just the same and so she put the same venue , we tend to alter at the meeting she said |
| 24 | You 'll just get to look at the document you ca n't work |
| 25 | Bartman , who has not been allowed to live at the house he has shared in Chelsea with his partner of 23 years , David Cohen , as a condition of bail , will now be able to return home . |
| 26 | He also planned to entertain at the Priory his neighbours and friends , and here it was possible that he received fresh warnings of danger , as on finishing his dinner he hurriedly set off for Halling and was scarcely clear of the city when a riot broke out and the mob tried to pillage the Priory . |
| 27 | Spencer ignored Emily 's words and continued to gaze at the girl who had paused near the doorway . |
| 28 | Erm I I 'm not sure I need to look at the sheet I I thought it was ten when I looked . |
| 29 | I think we need I accept I think we need to look at certain areas we need to look at the entrance I mean if we were doing the entrance again we would have electric doors on what like they 've got on the Harvey Centre so you do n't have to fight your way in I 'm thinking of doors like this we 'll do that . |
| 30 | It is true that we are more enlightened than we were ; there is a public which has learnt to smile at the reviewer who declares that a line ‘ will not scan ’ , or that it contains a ‘ trochee ’ where it should have had an ‘ iamb ’ , without considering whether it was ever intended to ‘ scan ’ , or whether there is anything in English verse which can be treated as the absolute equivalent of a Greek or Latin trochee . |