Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The occasion of a partner leaving or joining the firm should always be taken as the opportunity to update the provisions of the agreement and , since each single provision is properly looked at in the context of the entire document , it is the whole agreement which should then be reconsidered and not simply isolated clauses . |
| 2 | The two groups of villagers engage in a rough and tumble battle , and a peaceful settlement was only arrived at by the intervention of the schoolmasters from both villages . |
| 3 | Then I 'm going to the British Embassy and get a copy of the Daily Telegraph and I do n't care if it 's weeks old and I 'm going to read something I never normally look at like the nature notes if they have them . |
| 4 | The content of courses varies widely , and is usually arrived at by the demands of the service . |
| 5 | If Peter Greenaway 's camera is anything but a participating human representative , Gilbert 's is nothing else , addressed , ogled , and even winked at by the heroine . |
| 6 | " Significant progress " was reportedly made , resulting in a " broadening of the consensus " earlier arrived at by the UN Security Council . |
| 7 | There was not much else to look at in the room . |
| 8 | My study is the perfect place for an author , especially if he does n't , as I do n't , object to being occasionally peered at through the windows by curious visitors . |
| 9 | He lost himself in its possibilities , its immensity , he went far out , and came back dazed , stunned by horizons , often with sketches he had done in a hurry and afterwards flew at with the axe of a black crayon , or a pen loaded with black ink , hacking at them fiercely , savagely , to kill off the sentimental and picturesque that was so much in vogue . |