Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be like the attempt to look directly at the sun that dazzles and finally blinds rather than enlightens . |
| 2 | The 39-year-old , on what he insists is his last tour , re-asserted his intention to return home at the end of the India leg on 6 March — rather than go , after all , to Sri Lanka for the final fortnight in an effort to help restore confidence and belief to his side . |
| 3 | In time , however , she rose and moved off to sample the hedgerow , stretching her long , white neck to nibble delicately at the tips of the hawthorn . |
| 4 | They assumed that pupils , mostly boys , of course , who were failing on the school reading scheme simply needed more and more opportunity to slog away at the phonics and sight vocabulary while under tight supervision . |
| 5 | It was as though a voice had actually said the words aloud , and she moved sharply and leaned against the window to stare blankly at the room . |
| 6 | ‘ In prayer we are gradually hollowed out to become more ‘ capax Dei ’ ’ ( capacity for God ) , said Maria Boulding , and someone pastoring others will be only too aware of the need to receive even at the price of felt ( and often uncomfortable ) emptiness . |
| 7 | ‘ It is the right moment to look critically at the structure . |
| 8 | The need to look carefully at the wording on that particular part of H one . |
| 9 | Brief site visits are not sufficient to supervise work effectively and the surveyor must ensure that adequate time is set aside when on site to look closely at the work executed since the last inspection . |
| 10 | Bill turns his head to look directly at the American . |
| 11 | As she finished her breathing was ragged , her eyes darting from the newsprint to stare unseeingly at the people pushing past her into the Metro and back to the newsprint again . |
| 12 | Not as much as I would like to be , however , as the night class I joined in September 1991 did not have enough support to run again at the beginning of this year . |
| 13 | Often George came in at five o'clock in the morning to hammer away at the pirate ship in the carpenter 's shop . |
| 14 | ( 8 ) Finally the farmer asked his dog to bark loudly at the donkey ( 10 ) and thereby frighten him into the shed . |
| 15 | On the way to my next appointment with Denis King , a piano and some Joyce Grenfell songs , I stopped at a nearby theatre to smile winsomely at the box office boys in the hope that they 'd recognize me , in spite of my Titian disguise , and sell me some tickets for their sell-out play . |
| 16 | ‘ Let's have a picnic , ’ she said , telling herself that next week she would make a real effort to work again at the practice of virtue . |
| 17 | Dr Vaughan , whose firm employs 3,800 , had asked the MP to look closely at the cuts issue . |
| 18 | Was n't the original idea to look again at the application of science and technology to policing ? |
| 19 | I strongly urge the Under-Secretary to look closely at the recommendation that the personal allowance should not be used as a contribution to bridge the gap between the charges and the benefits . |
| 20 | All that was needed was for one kind of film to do well at the box-office and a new Hollywood format would be established . |
| 21 | We 're certainly not in a position to do so at the moment . |
| 22 | It is not known for certain at what moment of time afterwards she looked at her fingers , in order to gaze admiringly at the ring . |
| 23 | The buyer is in fact the only one in a position to begin right at the beginning , to make the preliminary inspections or surveys which should then culminate in the detailed survey at the end — the final chance to say ‘ yes ’ , ‘ no ’ or ‘ maybe ’ . |
| 24 | Holly searched for the next opportunity to strike again at the administration of the camp that held him . |
| 25 | Last night Mr Nick Lloyd , editor of the Daily Express , who had not been present at Tuesday 's meeting , said that the editors of Express Newspapers — the Daily and Sunday Express and the Star — and the publisher , Lord Stevens , had not had time to look closely at the proposals . |
| 26 | Is it not time to look afresh at the foundations of our laws in relation to mental illness with a view to making the central focus that of providing a framework whereby those whose judgment is so impaired by their illness that they are unable to recognise the need for treatment will receive such treatment in as humane , sensitive and effective a way as possible . |
| 27 | But she usually heard him creep in , however late it was , and came scratching on the door just as he had got his trousers off , or just as he was scraping her uneaten steak-and-kidney pie into a polythene bag to throw away at the office next day . |