Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The supplement goes on to look at the law covering the conservation of protected buildings and areas , reporting on incentives like the Town Scheme grant , which can provide 40 per cent grants for repair and restoration work from combined funding between local authorities and English Heritage . |
| 2 | It then goes on to look at the costs of protectionism so they 're , they 're looking at erm , the numerical estimates as to how much erm , protectionism costs , not only for domestic producers and consumers and tax payers , but also for third countries . |
| 3 | Part 4 goes on to look at the training of parents in skills necessary for successful completion of these steps . |
| 4 | That would we feel is certainly in a coordinating way and if somebody for instance er say you 've got a husband and wife living together , one of them suddenly becomes handicapped in a particular way , what we are planning to do is trying to develop programmes which will enable the carer to have to go on training at the County Council 's expense to enable them to look after somebody in their own homes and it 's a type of thing we want to develop . |
| 5 | Swam down to sniff at the trembling . |
| 6 | He bent down to stare at the floor . |
| 7 | After a while she came over to Tallis and bent down to peer at the human . |
| 8 | With a parting gift of prawns and fish from a friendly fisherman , we headed over to look at the islands of bum and Eigg on the way to Ardnamurchan . |
| 9 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 10 | Well this is this is what I was trying to work out looking at the banking erm module that Sia , Sandra 's just given me could for the nine weeks right ? |
| 11 | They say that you can easily spot the tourists in the Big Apple — they are the people walking around gazing at the sky , at the tops of the skyscrapers . |
| 12 | Ken Corduroy drove round to the Harrisons ' with an ingenious pool-cleaning device , a mechanical object that swam round scrubbing at the walls , he had ordered for them from England . |
| 13 | Just before she turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ Closed ’ , a woman came in to look at the toys . |
| 14 | The eerie lights would hang in the air for quite some time then the mortars came over to burst at the edge of the wood . |
| 15 | The ever increasing army of tourists who came up to look at the scenery was growing . |
| 16 | Still looking doubtful , she went off to fill the order , and when Ellie had eaten it all , down to the very last scrap , and had two cups of coffee , she came back to stand at the table , full of admiration and amazement . |
| 17 | His mother trekked North to the St Mary 's Anglican Mission station , where he received his education before going on to study at the Rorke 's Drift Art and Craft Centre in Natal . |
| 18 | The position with regard to face-to-face transactions is considered first , before going on to look at the position in relation to impersonal stock market deals . |
| 19 | Before going on to look at the Government 's proposals in detail , we want to underline our serious concern over the threat to strategic minerals planning associated with the proposed reorganisation of local government in Wales . |
| 20 | I called out : ‘ I 'm going over to look at the birds , ’ and left them to it . |
| 21 | Well , I was like the rest , I 'd got to help out standing at the stalls , like . |
| 22 | They will vouch that I stayed here , doing-accounts , going out to look at the carving which were being made for the pageant for the king 's coronation . ’ |
| 23 | I had become more and more interested in the business world , going back to work at the bank in Newcastle during my vacations , so I was looking for a general business career . ’ |
| 24 | He showed her the caving ones first , and then they paused for supper before going back to look at the ones of his son . |
| 25 | ‘ Will you look at that ? ’ she exclaimed , turning back to point at the grounds . |
| 26 | Turning back to look at the door , he could see no manual locking mechanism — only a circular brass inset that seemed to need a special key . |
| 27 | Willie turned back to look at the comics so that he missed the surprised expression on his face . |
| 28 | He was turning about to look at the view and the slope of grass back up to the road . |
| 29 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 30 | Alice smiled and nodded , and got up to stand at the window , looking out . |