Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not until the end of the 18th century that the first bottle of claret as we now know it was put down for ageing at the famous Chateau Lafite in 1797 . |
| 2 | According to a correspondent of The Graphic , these 19th-century visitors must have been little different from today's-instead of gasping at the 70-kilometre vista spread before them , their first reaction on arrival at the top was to write commemorative postcards . |
| 3 | The miraculous tales were set down in writing at the very beginning of literacy , even before the Homeric poems of the eighth century BC . |
| 4 | Let me therefore start afresh by looking at the common law . |
| 5 | How oppressive the satraps were in reality is a question which can be answered only by looking at the second area in which Persia impinged , tribute and military service . |
| 6 | The educational aspects of social change can be assessed only by looking at the local education authorities . |
| 7 | I cycled over from Creeting at the usual time and when I started it were all right . |
| 8 | Just by glancing at the first chapter of the book you feel a sort of ‘ zing ’ that brings them together , so much so that one could never rate one higher than the other . |
| 9 | They think that all knowledge is to be found by perusing him , and not by looking at the real world . |
| 10 | It is also worth looking at the smaller , regional building societies . |
| 11 | It is also worth looking at the smaller , regional building societies . |
| 12 | It is also worth looking at the smaller , regional building societies . |
| 13 | Each situation under which law is being used either against or by the peace movement will have to be analysed extensively by looking at the specific arena and the specific legal language spoken . |
| 14 | In particular , it would be a mistake to suppose that the causes and remedies of the prison numbers crisis are to be found simply by looking at the final stages of the process , namely the custodial decisions of the courts . |
| 15 | Then , instead of shaping at the extreme neck edge , or within a few stitches of a fully fashioned neck shaping , work the cable pattern , with two or so stitches between it and the neck edge and work the neck shaping within the cable pattern and the remaining stocking stitch of the shoulder edge . |
| 16 | Thus , from a letter of 1867 : " most philologists lack that elevating total view of antiquity , because they stand too close to the picture and investigate a patch of paint , instead of gazing at the big , bold brushstrokes of the whole painting and — what 's more — enjoying them … " ; and " … our whole mode of working is quite horrible . |