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

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1 Her long ginger hair tumbled to the floor ; her short white skirt rode up to hint at the delicious curves of her tender derriere .
2 NORTHERN Ireland will be represented on a committee set up to look at the handling of complaints from National Health Service patients and their families .
3 In January 1989 , the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities convened a meeting of a group set up to look at the effect of these centres on authority centres .
4 Just before she turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ Closed ’ , a woman came in to look at the toys .
5 Blaise Cendrars , the writer , saw Modigliani let fall a twenty-franc note one evening when a well-known pauper came in to sit at the next table .
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