Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He is a world class player with all the attributes a striker needs to play at the top , ’ added Allison . |
| 2 | ‘ What happened , ’ says an attendant parent , ‘ is that our defence stopped to look at the train . |
| 3 | For now the point is that the drafter needs to know at the outset whether any of the business 's customers will fall within the definition of " consumer " : if so , care must be taken in drafting clauses excluding or limiting liability . |
| 4 | The work was actually carried out in 1971–72 , although the lease did not take effect until February 1974 just two months before the old county borough ceased to exist at the time of local government reorganisation . |
| 5 | For more weeks than I care to remember I have been working on a Panorama programme designed to look at the future of the Tory Party , even beyond Thatcherism . |
| 6 | They looked red and sore and his mouth seemed to droop at the corners . |
| 7 | In his Sonnets Shakespeare achieved the rather remarkable feat of turning to new and individual ends a genre that had flourished throughout Europe for several centuries and was in effect beginning to die at the time when he wrote , in the mid 1590s . |
| 8 | This small-scale study aims to look at the impacts of deregulation of passenger transport in the United States and to examine the way that transport suppliers have responded to the new environment . |
| 9 | The tweed-coated figure continued to stare at the page of the book to the left of his plate , ignoring his companion . |
| 10 | When Luke called her heart seemed to expand at the look of admiration that slipped over his face as his gaze took in her simple cream suit in thick , crunchy lace , the severe black camisole she wore beneath it , but he merely murmured , ‘ Punctual as always . |
| 11 | The recession has exacerbated this problem to such an extent that the Metropolitan Police has a Fraud Squad division detailed to look at the issue . |
| 12 | Holly heard him shift on his bunk and the mattress seemed to belch at the movement . |
| 13 | In a recent incident a vehicle failed to stop at the junction and damaged Curwen House the building on Gubberford Lane almost opposite the end of Tithe Barn Lane . |
| 14 | You can you go to church every Sunday , sing the choruses or the hymns , listen to what the man has to say or the lady has to say at the front , and it can just go over your head and it can mean nothing to you apart from something that you believe might be true . |
| 15 | A tiny weeny hint of a plan began to tinkle at the back of my brain like a triangle at the back of an orchestra . |
| 16 | On the basis of this , it is submitted that the question of subsidiarity is essentially a political question for the Council , and if the Council decided to act at the Community level it would not be possible to challenge what it did simply on the basis that it could better have been done at the level of the Member States ; rather , it would be necessary to show a manifest error , a misuse of power or a clear passing of the limits of discretion , and it is submitted that the occasions when this might be done will be rare . |
| 17 | A vehicle volunteering to stop at the zebra crossing can only stop one of the two lanes , with no control over the other . |
| 18 | The chances are that the punters only know an error has been made if the drummer decides to smirk at the guitarist , or the guitarist turns away from the audience to have a good laugh at the keyboard player . |
| 19 | Uterine contractions continue for a few days after birth ( they are often particularly evident when the child begins to suck at the nipple ) . |
| 20 | The fact is that Schubert 's Symphonies are appallingly badly served at present , with the exception of the ‘ Unfinished ’ and ‘ Great ’ , although there too my heart tends to sink at the memory of even some of the established ‘ best buys ’ . |
| 21 | His Mum turned to look at the car that had crushed the arrow bits . |
| 22 | A second place where today 's deficiency of understanding can be witnessed is in the improper place given to experience at the expense of understanding . |
| 23 | Breeze turned to glance at the man who had just entered the shop , and saw that it was Roger Kenyon . |
| 24 | With almost half the present team threatening to retire at the end of the season — and who can blame them if it means that they go out on a high note — this was excellent news . |
| 25 | The Doctus contract scheduled to expire at the end of June 93 has been extended until December to allow further work to be undertaken in specific areas within the company . |
| 26 | The family proceedings court has to look at the Welfare Checklist ( section 1 , 1989 Children Act ) and , as the writers say , the conflict between the child 's welfare being paramount and the need to protect the community present a real paradox . |
| 27 | Will my right hon. Friend undertake to look at the question afresh , please ? |
| 28 | The orientation of sCD2 is chosen relative to a cell surface assumed to lie at the bottom of the illustration in the plane normal to the vertical . |
| 29 | Compromise tends to occur at the level of implementation ’ . |
| 30 | And when she thought it was about to finish , the whip began to flick at the pegs . |