Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I know , you only got to look at the VAT ai n't you for starters |
| 2 | Others merely want to look at the engine . |
| 3 | One only has to look at the halving of the value of the youth training allowance and the way in which young people between the ages of 16 and 18 can no longer claim benefit , including housing benefit . |
| 4 | To see how destructive such an inflation can be , one only has to look at the hyperinflation which occurred in Germany in 1922–23 . |
| 5 | You 've only got to look at the history of religion , especially Christianity , to see that at as the guys who went round flagellating themselves also went around killing other people if they did n't believe in the right religion and that unfortunately er happens all too often . |
| 6 | You 've only got to look at the table . |
| 7 | Anyway , she was only going to look at a cottage . |
| 8 | One only needed to look at the Government Training Centre at Boucher Road in West Belfast for a good example . |
| 9 | Paige strove for rationality in a world that was suddenly threatening to dissolve at the seduction of touch and tone . |
| 10 | It was two hours before he felt sufficiently recovered to stop at a phone box and report in . |
| 11 | They only had to look at the floor of her cockpit to prove that . |
| 12 | Marcus did n't care what Wilson said , you only had to look at the guy . |
| 13 | They only had to wince at the racket for 20 minutes or so . |
| 14 | You only have to look at a prole in this book and it rolls over to have its tummy tickled . |
| 15 | Have you ever said , ‘ I think I was meant to be big ’ or ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2 lbs ( 0.9kg ) ’ or ‘ I ca n't diet ’ ? |
| 16 | ‘ I was a big baby — I 'm obviously meant to be this size ’ , ‘ all my family are big ’ , ‘ I 've tried every diet , they just do n't seem to work for me ’ , ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2lbs ( 0.9kg ) ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You only have to look at a picture of him when he resigned and compare it with one from six months beforehand . |
| 18 | ‘ I know that , ’ Candy returned ruefully , ‘ and it 's always been the bane of my life that you can eat your way through a tuckshop without gaining a pound while I only have to look at a picture of a cream cake to make the scales groan . ’ |
| 19 | - Elizabeth Rex , chairman of the Harwich Conservative Association ‘ You only have to look at the way we have annoyed the Establishment and the professions to gauge the success of our populist policies . ’ |
| 20 | You only have to look at the press and television to see how impatient many in our society are . |
| 21 | Murder mysteries are something of a British tradition — you only have to look at the popularity of thriller novels and TV ‘ whodunits ? ’ , for example . |
| 22 | We only have to look at the interest being shown , especially in public sector institutions , in recruiting their students from a wide social background . |
| 23 | You only have to look at the balance sheet its treasurer John Lister will present to its annual meeting in December , a million pounds sitting on reserve . |
| 24 | You only have to look at the unemployment amongst married women who would like to be teachers . |
| 25 | You only have to look at the number of visitors going to places such as Nepal er to see the increase there , to see how important this connection be . |
| 26 | ‘ You only have to look at the number of players with top clubs in the present squad — Arsenal 's Steve Morrow is another example — and it 's obvious there 's hope for the future . |
| 27 | Inevitably there will be much improved functionality , and more features — you only have to look at the difference between DOS 4.01 and DOS 5 to see that . |
| 28 | Despite intensive pressure to resign in the aftermath of the serious rioting of late April and early May — itself a product of the acquittal of those officers accused of assaulting King — and police failings which the unrest revealed [ see pp. 38856 ; 38894 ] , King continued to prevaricate until June 8 when he finally agreed to go at the end of the month . |
| 29 | A large number wish to continue working as long as they are fit and do not want to retire at the state pension age . |
| 30 | Having spent the whole day listening to the contenders , I did not want to look at the list — I felt certain that my name would not appear . |