Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This review process needs to be carried out on a fairly regular basis , perhaps every six months , and it should include looking at the current state of the market to see if there are any new developments that can be applied . |
| 2 | Or just too tired to do anything but enjoy looking at the pretty lady . |
| 3 | He did not need to look at the single shelf of books to know they would have titles like A Pilot 's War Memoirs or Regiments of the Burma Campaign . |
| 4 | If you use windows it is worth putting applications that you might need to use at the same time on different drives . |
| 5 | Of Charles Hutton : ‘ For the accommodation of such gentlemen and ladies as do n't choose to appear at the public school , I propose ( at vacant hours ) to attend them in their own apartments . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't want to think about that , I do n't want to look at the actual scene , I 've got over it , have n't I ? … the way she died … and all that went before . |
| 7 | I I th would prefer to look at the vacant dwellings as a single entity rather than necessarily splitting them down between the the the various types . |
| 8 | Do n't torture yourself with feelings of inadequacy because you ca n't even begin to guess at the correct pronunciation of Abhainn Coire Mhic Nobuil . |
| 9 | If you would like to look at the second sheet on your erm of the two that you 've got , erm this really brings to mind , one day in St Aldate 's , in the summer of 1643 , when a very hard working , methodical loyal official , Edward Heath , was ordered by the King and his Council to walk around St Aldate 's , and make a list of all the defaulters , all those who had failed to work on the fortifications . |
| 10 | Well I 'd like to look at the national implications of this . |
| 11 | At a running start you should plan to start at the downwind end . |
| 12 | For example , a centred heading above justified text would become blocked at the left-hand margin if Alt+P was applied to it as well as to the text below . |
| 13 | You should begin exercising at the correct pace . |
| 14 | ‘ Would you like to eat at the same place ? ’ he asked , taking no risks . |
| 15 | At the second attempt she made the connection and heard the telephone begin to ring at the other end . |
| 16 | Support Alan on Saturday and contact him with details those items you would like auctioned at the next opportunity in December . |
| 17 | This latest exhibition is not merely an update of the one many will remember visiting at the Royal Academy in 1979 , but a transformation . |
| 18 | But why stop to wonder at the very point where cause for wonder really begins ? |
| 19 | It may have formed at the same time as Coed y Brenin . |
| 20 | At her side , introducing her to people , encouraging her to elaborate on some of her ideas for the future , Luke was urbane , expressing only suave approval , and no one could have guessed at the personal contempt he felt for her , not a hint of it — or anything else personal either — allowed to show through his sophisticated public manner . |
| 21 | Many a display organiser and participant would have looked at the prevailing conditions , shrugged shoulders and turned away from the problem , presented a ‘ weather-out ’ show to the paying public . |
| 22 | He stepped away from her and she could have wept at the cold desolation that closed round her . |
| 23 | you do have to remember at the same time that these documents would be going home and |
| 24 | Just once , as the waves came up over her feet , she hesitated and gave a short gasp , as anyone might have done at the sudden cold . |
| 25 | I said , if you 'd have said what you should have said at the bloody tribunal . |
| 26 | The research is aimed at drawing on the history of Soviet economic relations with the LDCs as a basis for monitoring the changes brought about first by ‘ perestroika ’ and then by the disintegration of the USSR ; it will then analyse the effect on the developing countries concerned and evaluate the profit and loss account of their economic relations with the Soviet Union ; it will also look at the relevance of these relations to the Soviet economy and that of the constituent republics ; and finally it will try to look at the future prospects of the relationship between the less developed countries and the individual republics of the former Soviet Union . |
| 27 | With this résumé as a foretaste , let us proceed to look at the various components of Kuhn 's scheme in more detail . |
| 28 | She would have to look at the local papers . |
| 29 | And she would have to smile at the first question and say , ‘ Oh , no , no , of course lot . |
| 30 | She was walking too quickly , stumbling occasionally , past long belts like dressing-gown cords hanging from poles , which plucked at her face as she pushed through , straying over a pile of new dyed wool , brilliant and damp , into a glare of sunlight , stepping back from a mule loaded with carpets , bumping into a wall where blue thread ran along from a spinning wheel , guarded from tangling by small boys who pushed at her and muttered and laughed ; she would have grasped at the thin thread to lead her out . |