Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Others merely want to look at the engine .
2 - 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 . ’
3 You only have to look at the press and television to see how impatient many in our society are .
4 Murder mysteries are something of a British tradition — you only have to look at the popularity of thriller novels and TV ‘ whodunits ? ’ , for example .
5 We only have to look at the interest being shown , especially in public sector institutions , in recruiting their students from a wide social background .
6 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 .
7 You only have to look at the unemployment amongst married women who would like to be teachers .
8 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 .
9 ‘ 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 .
10 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 .
11 Since older miners were usually no longer fit to work at the coal-face and did less well-remunerated jobs on or near the surface , this meant that in old age — if they reached it — their pensions were to be a calculated on the basis of their more poorly paid years at work !
12 just want to look at the carbonate system in a bit more detail .
13 If anguish is too great , an elder may simply cease to discuss loss and just keep going at the level of practical consciousness .
14 On thawing in spring the fine soil collapses and falls past the stones , which thus become isolated at the surface and encircle the actively freezing and thawing material .
15 Already a variety of vendors are attempting to create user interfaces which go beyond GUIs , but not have appeared at the time of writing in 1990 .
16 Runners , coaches and athletics writers the world over have puzzled at the success of Mota and 38-year-old Pedrosa .
17 I just have to look at the list of this cos I always tend to forget this .
18 But you just have to look at the chain stores to see how times have changed .
19 You just need to look at the disaster situation on the Pennine Way .
20 You 're supposed to write the minutes for this meeting on the back of the agenda , now , I know very few people who ever actually do that , er , I always want to look at the agenda when I 'm taking my notes .
21 And er you always want to look at the track record .
22 The name of John Gould soon became synonymous with the fantastic bower-bird , and gave a new ornithological slant to one of the popular songs of the day : ‘ Will you join in the evening and charm us as you ever have done at the piano ’ , asked Gould of Mrs Owen shortly after his return , ‘ …
23 I also remember thinking at the time that dressing like a white man and taking a white man 's name was n't ever going to hide the Apache in him .
24 Now in this first session I really want to look at the way that er er financial planning will affect you once you , once you retire , it may be that 's the sort of area you 've not looked at in detail .
25 Its entrance was discovered in 1950 and two years later this deepest of all gouffres acquired a sad celebrity with the death there of Marcel Loubens , a Belgian speleologist , who was badly injured deep underground but could not be got to the surface quickly enough to save his life , a story I dimly remember reading at the time in newspapers .
26 Even in more casual situations people often try to get at the upshot of what is being said with such utterances as ‘ What are you trying to tell me ? ’
27 well I mean the , the agent has n't or has n't yet sued , but I was n't really putting it like that , I was asking you whether it is your case as in presently stand looking at the defence you 've raised to whether or not you have failed to perform your legal obligations under clause nine .
28 The bulbs in this unit actually stop working at the end of their useful lives which can be up to five years .
29 Therefore try to arrive at the venue a day early .
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