Example sentences of "[to-vb] at the [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lead managers of all Heron 's bonds are to meet at the offices of Credit Suisse in Zurich on Monday to plan a concerted response after hearing outline proposals from the company in London last Friday . |
| 2 | To dine at the court of flattery ? |
| 3 | The only way out may simply be to mandate a shorter planning period , an alternative the Japanese have demonstrated does not have to come at the expense of quality . |
| 4 | perhaps , he thought as he followed Maisie down the front path , it was that he knew them only as fathers , as people whose primary function was to stand at the edge of swimming pools , dank gymnasia or football fields , their collective manhoods bruised by nurture , blurring with age and helpless love . |
| 5 | to blur at the edges with fever |
| 6 | You both need to do this to work at the principle of conciliation . |
| 7 | Basically as far as what you need to know at the point of sale , yes . |
| 8 | It does not take a well-qualified anthropologist to guess at the impact on self-esteem , relationships , and family lifestyles . |
| 9 | Darlington Civic Theatre YOU only have to look at young Roald Dahl booklovers , eager to see the stage play , to wonder at the gap in theatre material for such a ready audience . |
| 10 | Morag and Mary were two such women and we never ceased to wonder at the amount of work they got through in a day . |
| 11 | He stared steadily outwards towards the ducks and flamingos while Kraal mantled his plumage , let out a harsh call or two and dropped down into the shelter to pick at the remnant of meat he had left over from the previous day . |
| 12 | Lazio manager Dino Zoff is convinced it 's Gazza 's destiny to rank at the pinnacle of football 's history , rubbing shoulders with the likes of Maradona . |
| 13 | Everything was set , poised , waiting to function at the speed of light . |
| 14 | The wires of the fence were eventually replaced with mesh , and Halima having tried once , and finding that her leg did not go through , ceased to paw at the fence for oats . |
| 15 | During the summer when there was not even a blade of green grass in the paddock , her feed of oats and other goodies became inordinately important to her , to the extent that one day when her dinner had not arrived at the usual time she began to paw at the fence in anxiety . |
| 16 | Still , it 's natural for the novelist sometimes to fret at the obliquities of fiction . |
| 17 | IN THE FINAL part of my series , I am going to look at the subject of wind . |
| 18 | However , what I have done is to use detailed assignment printouts given to me by the County Council , it 's erm these things here , to look at the changes in traffic flow along the whole length of the A sixty one between its southern junction with a proposed western relief road and its northern junction with a western relief road . |
| 19 | ‘ And this time I 'll be able to look at the video with pride . ’ |
| 20 | Firstly , it is important to look at the stages of budgeting and move from the functional processes of acquisition , allocation , spending and control to the more strategic resource activities of planning , choice and evaluation . |
| 21 | He added : ‘ You only have to look at the figures for fire deaths in hotels to see this is not a problem . |
| 22 | Murder mysteries are something of a British tradition — you only have to look at the popularity of thriller novels and TV ‘ whodunits ? ’ , for example . |
| 23 | With a parting gift of prawns and fish from a friendly fisherman , we headed over to look at the islands of bum and Eigg on the way to Ardnamurchan . |
| 24 | To assert this is merely to reiterate a point that should be obvious : that science , however sophisticated its instrumentation , can not generate observations that somehow enable us to look at the relationship between experience and the world as it were from outside of experience . |
| 25 | But before we move on , it may be instructive to look at the relationship between language viewed as a formal system and language as part of a wider social and psychological context , and to say something about the place of these two approaches in the development of ideas about language in general . |
| 26 | The Fulton Committee was not , by its terms of reference , allowed to look at the relationship with Parliament but , as a result , it blamed the service itself for many characteristics imposed on it by virtue of this relationship . |
| 27 | Emily asked the Princess not to look at the work in progress , ‘ and she was very good about it . |
| 28 | It was also suggested that theologians may need to look at the theology of play in order to gain a more positive understanding of the entertainment role of the media . |
| 29 | Though several economists in the late 1950s began to look at the economics of education , it was Schultz 's presidential address to the American Economic Association in 1960 that heralded the arrival of the human capital theory on the international academic scene . |
| 30 | Firstly I want to look at the idea of partnership . |