Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Idly she began to stab at the wet ground with it , but it struck something hard straight away . |
2 | However , she still had not been fed and so she started to paw at the fence again . |
3 | perhaps we have to look at the societal thing in that there 's something very macho seen as macho about football in Scotland which is stand on the terraces with a short sleeve shirt in zero degrees and having someone urinate down your leg and |
4 | One , we 're going to look at why well trained staff are , are so important to the C U , secondly we 're going to look at things responsibility training is and lastly we want to look at a systematic approach that you can take as training . |
5 | Members can also choose how long they wish to stay at the ‘ weekend ’ , whether for just a morning or afternoon or for the whole day-and-a-half . |
6 | The problem , we must make sure Ray does n't include the amount of time he nee extra he needs to arrive at every meeting half an hour early . |
7 | The theory argues that we can not develop one universal scientific approach to create the perfect organisational structure , but rather we have to look at a number of variables and see how they interact with each other within particular organisations . |
8 | Later he came to work at the house which was his first entry into Local Government . |
9 | But now you have to begin at the other end and tell the story in a straight run through the eyes , or over the shoulder , of the " detective " figure . |
10 | Now we start to look at the same stitch types again , but this time used as a double bed knitting techniques . |
11 | ‘ Now we need to look at a map , ’ said Jason . |
12 | Now we have to look at the real cost of motoring . |
13 | Oh yes I mean Then er we had the Christmas Fair meeting of which maybe you want to look at the minutes now . |
14 | Sometimes she dared to wonder at the causes for this way of life , for she could see that it did not represent a normal attitude towards society , though it was so deeply bred in her that all aberrations from it were for the rest of her life to seem to her perverse : but when , occasionally , she glimpsed some faint light of causation , she recoiled from it and shut her eyes in horror , preferring the darkness to such bitter illumination . |
15 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |
16 | So when I have to weigh up whether I can afford to trade in my battered old VW and think of those who have a BMW or Mercedes , then you begin to wonder at the sense of it all . |
17 | Yeah , folk here just never been out since New Year , then she had to work at the hospital Tuesday , well Bradley said if you do n't feel fit enough phone up and we 'll send a nurse to you I said you 're bloody mental , you ask for everything you get , I said instead of phoning the nurse in , ah but I think Alison told me they both need a good , good bloody feed they do |
18 | Then she turned to look at the Frenchman and spoke softly in his language . |
19 | It was then we found out who oc , who was the occupant of that flat then we started to look at the connection between and . |
20 | Clumsily he began to tug at the heavy gold signet ring on one of his fingers . |
21 | Then he began to hack at the door-frame . |
22 | Firstly I want to look at the idea of partnership . |
23 | So any feature analyser would have to deal with context so therefore they started to look at the role of context and we 're gon na look at contextual effects later on , probably next week or the week after . |