Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] at the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Hyperactive and overactive young children often can not concentrate long enough to sit at the table and so teaching this is a very important part of learning to control them generally .
2 Once at the Tate , they usually had time only to look at the sea and river pieces , the Turners and the Whistlers .
3 You have only to look at the shape and solidness of a barbel to see where he gets his speed and power .
4 ‘ It ca n't be that time , ’ she said , bounding up , only to clutch at the table as her head started up again .
5 Chairman , if , if I may and it is just basically to look at the recommendation and wonder you know perhaps if we 've got it the right way round er that 's all , where we 're saying er there are certain things still outstanding wh which we would need to re-relate before er issuing er general conformity notices I understand b but we 're almost taking that they 're going to do that without any doubt , now I do n't know maybe there are things not said in this report which are well understood , but and members of are quite happy to accept erm er s some more more changes to , to the local plan so that it does conform with with the structure plan , but I just wondered whether round the wrong way .
6 and er there 's enough to do at the front and the back .
7 If you are not disciplined enough to arrive at the agency as though dressed for work you may not be taken on to the books .
8 And I had one rehearsal of two Bach pieces which were really difficult and I was com , feeling completely frantic during the break in rehearsal , and went over to look at the music and some fellow called Don bounded over to me and said , oh you ca n't be you know you sh ca n't be looking at that now , ba , la dee da dee da !
9 She tells him about the street she was brought up in , its granular asphalt pavement ridged with long wavering bulges where they had been dug up to get at the gas and water mains , and overhung by waterfalls of laburnum , with front gardens marked off by low walls , some of them in crenellated brickwork , some in pebble-dash with decorative chains dipping above them that you could set swinging , one after another , as you walked by .
10 Cranston stood up and linked his arm through Athelstan 's as they went out to stand at the door whilst the ostler saddled their horses .
11 Well to work at the weekend as well
12 My father had often urged me to try some of his marijuana , but I had never accepted , just as I had refused even to look at the cocaine that he kept in his dressing room .
13 Dad drew him maps to the unconscious ; he suggested routes and speeds , clothing for the journey and how to sit at the wheel when approaching the dangerous interior .
14 So that 's that 's the way to use that is not to talk to it but to have a silence while you 're writing er and then to stand at the side while you making the points that are that are associated with what you 've written up .
15 He was turning about to look at the view and the slope of grass back up to the road .
16 And then I woke up again , and I come upstairs to look at the clock and it was half past three .
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