Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The occasion of a partner leaving or joining the firm should always be taken as the opportunity to update the provisions of the agreement and , since each single provision is properly looked at in the context of the entire document , it is the whole agreement which should then be reconsidered and not simply isolated clauses . |
| 2 | The symptoms , only hinted at by a headache earlier that could easily have been nothing , and by mild swelling that was normal in hot weather , had intensified with frightening suddenness , and Belinda was in no doubt about what it meant . |
| 3 | The two groups of villagers engage in a rough and tumble battle , and a peaceful settlement was only arrived at by the intervention of the schoolmasters from both villages . |
| 4 | The room is at its best looked at as a whole . |
| 5 | Where , as appears to be the case at Uppark , it is physically possible to make an accurate restoration of a great building , it should be made — and not jeered at as the creation of a theme park of misnamed pastiche . |
| 6 | Then I 'm going to the British Embassy and get a copy of the Daily Telegraph and I do n't care if it 's weeks old and I 'm going to read something I never normally look at like the nature notes if they have them . |
| 7 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 8 | The content of courses varies widely , and is usually arrived at by the demands of the service . |
| 9 | ( i ) Without external evidence of date , the period of a mosaic is always arrived at by an extrapolation from the style of other pavements . |
| 10 | If Peter Greenaway 's camera is anything but a participating human representative , Gilbert 's is nothing else , addressed , ogled , and even winked at by the heroine . |
| 11 | So if you press the return key right , we just get a whole list of diagnostic test statistics that we wo n't look at at the moment , press the return key again , come to the post regression menu , you go into option three which is a list plot option . |
| 12 | " Significant progress " was reportedly made , resulting in a " broadening of the consensus " earlier arrived at by the UN Security Council . |
| 13 | There was not much else to look at in the room . |
| 14 | My study is the perfect place for an author , especially if he does n't , as I do n't , object to being occasionally peered at through the windows by curious visitors . |
| 15 | He lost himself in its possibilities , its immensity , he went far out , and came back dazed , stunned by horizons , often with sketches he had done in a hurry and afterwards flew at with the axe of a black crayon , or a pen loaded with black ink , hacking at them fiercely , savagely , to kill off the sentimental and picturesque that was so much in vogue . |