Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] at [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time my idea of manhood was personified as someone who had to work hard at a job he hated in order to support not only himself , but other people whose very existence he resented ; someone who was forever having to make difficult decisions and take frightening initiatives , both of which ended in frustration ; and someone who might be called upon to fight in wars ( National Service was then still in operation ) and kill people . |
| 2 | You need to set down at the start what you expect to achieve . |
| 3 | I got sick of this , so I brought an old alarm clock and hung it around my neck and set it to go off at the moment he walked in one day . |
| 4 | However , to look only at the persons who were the actual depositors would not be satisfactory . |
| 5 | His face was severely troubled and he went out into the street to look up at the tree which overhung his house . |
| 6 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 7 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 8 | The leaves on the thorn trees were almost open , and when we turned to look back at the distance we 'd climbed , there were clusters of vivid green that trailed down the hillside and encompassed the village like waterweed . |
| 9 | They turned to look back at the emptiness they had crossed . |
| 10 | He turned to look at her , his glance intended to skewer her to the spot , forcing her to clutch self-consciously at the kimono she had slipped on while she had a nap after the arduous car journey into the mountains with Peter just now . |
| 11 | Sometimes they will go back to look again at a word which has been passed . |
| 12 | The handicapped children who joined school forced us to look again at the provision we made for children . |
| 13 | It has all necessary powers to look again at the problem it has created and decide whether it is in the overall interest of the locality to have a commercial port . |
| 14 | I think you need to look again at the bit I 've marked above where I could n't understand it , and try to clear up the problem . |
| 15 | Ruth wanted , physically , to hit back at the storm– which went on and on , which was striking at her . |
| 16 | The Fire was started to get back at a prisoner who had refused to take part in a food boycott . |
| 17 | When I saw her crying , with her neck all swollen , I wanted to lash out at the doctor who 'd done this to her . |