Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the quick-thinking cabbie , who picked up the woman from a pub in Exeter , Devon , alerted a cashier when the hijacker ordered him to stop at a motorway service station for cigarettes . |
| 2 | As will be appreciated , this is a very artificial categorization , little more than a rather crude device to enable us to look at a complex matter . |
| 3 | The concept of an unspecified information need is further developed by Wersig , who looks at a need situation as a problem situation and states that , " the notion of problem treatment process enables us to look at the stages which play an important role within the organism before any behaviour can be observed . " |
| 4 | Whereas in the 6th edition the re-written §246 dismisses the above as ‘ all my experience permitted me to say at the time … and that his research of the previous five years had wholly solved the difficulties of repetition . |
| 5 | Merymose asked me to look at the body . ’ |
| 6 | My father taught me to read at a very early age . |
| 7 | The holistic approach of phrenology taught them to look at the body-mind dichotomy and to think in terms of prevention rather than quick cures that were often spurious . |
| 8 | Because EXAFS enables us to look at the atomic environment of each alkali in turn we may begin to understand the structural basis of this curious effect . |
| 9 | A few days later , immediately alongside the busy M40 , a pause at traffic-lights enabled me to glance at a dense assembly of birds , as closely-packed as starlings , extending for almost a quarter of a mile along the edge of the arable field , and I was able to identify them as a mixture of Lapwing and ‘ goldies , ’ all immobile , and many of the latter with their heads tucked in as if fast asleep . |
| 10 | Often , too , our skills enable us to suggest at the same time how technical problems might be solved . |
| 11 | Some of our SPECIALIST WEEKENDS allow you to work at an ADVANCED LEVEL . |
| 12 | The aircraft flies comparatively slowly , at about 700 km/hr , but its big wings allow it to cruise at a height of more than 21 000 m — nearly double that of a transatlantic airliner . |
| 13 | Success in the Caucasian war and the friendship between Bariatinskii and the tsar restored him to favour at the centre and gave him the chance of putting his ideas into practice . |
| 14 | Having early disposed of the false idea that in the Middle Ages people believed in a flat earth , Lewis tells us to look at the sky itself . |
| 15 | ‘ There 's a letter asking you to play at an out-of-doors arts festival in the desert somewhere . |
| 16 | So I think erm Hertfordshire 's voice should be heard and however , my resolution asks us to look at the possibility of opposing not only the building of terminal five but all further airport expansion in the South East be it at Heathrow , Stansted , Gatwick or Luton . |
| 17 | A chance visit to Blackwardine caused him to look at the map for features of interest . |
| 18 | Examining patients with and without uraemia enabled us to look at the gastric mucosal damage over a very wide range ( 43 fold ) of in vivo ammonia production making it unlikely that any association was missed . |
| 19 | The notice to the creditors must state a time and date , not more than four days before the meeting , by when the creditors must lodge their proofs of debt ( Form 6.37 in Sched 4 to the rules , see App C , form 34 ) and , if applicable , proxies , in order to entitle them to vote at the first meeting ( r 6.79(4) ) . |
| 20 | Yes , Mar Mark wanted you to look at the third line of the third verse where there is a reference to no eyes and wondered whether you have any ideas about that . |
| 21 | If the partners unanimously or by a prescribed majority feel that one of their number should no longer remain with the firm they are given power to require him to retire at the end of a period of notice , typically six months or not less than six months to expire at the end of the firm 's accounting year . |
| 22 | ‘ Walked on the race course before breakfast the air balmy and very delightful , great numbers of the blue mountain parrots were making their morning meal on a large kind of the Eucalypti — two of the beautiful Nankeen night herons passed over our heads and we heard the curious note of the coul [ cowl ] bird or bald-headed friar — returned with an excellent appetite — drew all day — in the evening John called me to look at the skin of a snake more than six feet long which James shot in the act of ascending a tree — also brought me some beautiful specimens of a climbing plant bearing thick clusters of cream colour blossoms . ’ |