Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [to-vb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miles 's voice was hushed , and Bernice saw his helmet tilt as he craned his neck upwards to look at the Bridge . |
| 2 | Emily asked the Princess not to look at the work in progress , ‘ and she was very good about it . |
| 3 | ‘ They say she 's the youngest prima ballerina ever to dance at the Coliseum . ’ |
| 4 | First , fold the napkin in half diagonally , then bring the left and right-hand corners up to meet at the apex ( pic 1 ) . |
| 5 | talking of rejects I was I was conned into going down to Stoke yesterday to look at the Portmeirion seconds shop . |
| 6 | Now , being left-handed I 'm well used to the pitfalls : reading reviews of great-looking and top quality guitars only to find at the end of the review , ‘ No left-handers available ’ or , more niggling , ‘ 10% extra ’ . |
| 7 | The greatest German composer of the seventeenth century , Heinrich Schutz , studied in Venice with Giovanni Gabrieli , composed Italian madrigals there , and returned twenty years later to sit at the feet of Monteverdi . |
| 8 | Take a moment now to look at the needle . |
| 9 | And they plan to hold a residents ' meeting today to protest at the Durham County Council scheme . |
| 10 | There is not enough room here to look at the differences of nuance within this approach , which analyses the crisis of the uniform legal system and the monolithic concept of the state . |
| 11 | Many people consider that the failure adequately to protest at the rise of European Fascism in the 1920s and 1930s was a failure of moral duty , whilst others point out that protesting was a highly dangerous business which led to imprisonment , to torture , and to death . |
| 12 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend confirm that he will ask the chairman of British Rail urgently to look at the position of the tunnels further along the line to ensure that precautions similar to those that are being instituted in the Severn tunnel will also be made in those tunnels if signalling changes have taken place recently associated with the general modernisation work ? |
| 13 | JOKES NOT TO TELL AT THE DOCTOR 'S |
| 14 | JOKES NOT TO TELL AT THE ZOO |
| 15 | JOKES NOT TO TELL AT THE TABLE |
| 16 | Outside , in the rain , it turned what had once been its head up to look at the storm . |
| 17 | Well no not really because erm it , it was a private company as you can understand er , I can I ca n't really explain it everyone seemed to be pulling together you know that was the last thing you thought of , fifth columnists , things like that although it was they used to er , every now and again they used to send government national service officers round to look at the personnel and the structure of the working and if they thought anybody was superfluous to requirements they 'd get the papers soon after to go into the army or the services yeah , yeah , that is true and that happened , used to happen in factories all round the area , it was called the Essential Works Order . |
| 18 | Dismal woman , Briant thought and dismissed her too from his mind , turning his head again to look at the people in front of him . |
| 19 | They came close to ending the European famine last season only to falter at the end . |
| 20 | John himself was warned by the local Police Inspector not to speak at the square again or he would be arrested for speaking against the national interest . |
| 21 | Still , it 's natural for the novelist sometimes to fret at the obliquities of fiction . |
| 22 | Convention establishes certain procedures so that when clear rules are adopted according to these procedures , people can rely on state intervention in their behalf ; they can also rely on the state not to intervene at the behest of other citizens except as these rules stipulate and can plan and coordinate their affairs accordingly . |
| 23 | AROUND 50 demonstrators gathered at Edinburgh 's City Chambers yesterday to protest at the presence of a Sinn Fein speaker at a meeting inside . |
| 24 | Tabitha got to her feet and pushed Marco aside to peer at the controls . |
| 25 | I would finish unpacking , have a look at the cooker and set things ready for supper , then I would take a walk out to look at the sea , and gather kindling in case the evening turned chilly enough for a fire . |
| 26 | He returned to private practice with his brother and developed his notions sufficiently to present at the Manchester Technical College in 1887 a series of lectures on the completely new subject of chemical engineering . |
| 27 | Martha , who had decided to stop thinking about the inconvenience they were causing , asked Woodie not to stop at the boats ; they would like to go on to the New King 's Road . |
| 28 | I squeezed my way out to find at the foot of the cathedral steps the white helmets of a military band celebrating Easter state-style , surrounded by the boy soldiers of Peru in grey , black and khaki , armed with machine-guns . |
| 29 | Once at the Tate , they usually had time only to look at the sea and river pieces , the Turners and the Whistlers . |
| 30 | It was certainly and opportunity for the churches together to look at the world situation in conversation together and thus , to deepen the faith which have to proclaim at arriving at a common understanding of the situation . |