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

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1 Oh I know , you only got to look at the VAT ai n't you for starters
2 They only had to look at the floor of her cockpit to prove that .
3 Marcus did n't care what Wilson said , you only had to look at the guy .
4 They only had to wince at the racket for 20 minutes or so .
5 Despite intensive pressure to resign in the aftermath of the serious rioting of late April and early May — itself a product of the acquittal of those officers accused of assaulting King — and police failings which the unrest revealed [ see pp. 38856 ; 38894 ] , King continued to prevaricate until June 8 when he finally agreed to go at the end of the month .
6 I just wanted to look at the Earth .
7 Boys 14 and 15 once tried to sit at the back of the coach but were rapidly sent to the front where , it was said , ‘ they always sat ’ .
8 He also planned to entertain at the Priory his neighbours and friends , and here it was possible that he received fresh warnings of danger , as on finishing his dinner he hurriedly set off for Halling and was scarcely clear of the city when a riot broke out and the mob tried to pillage the Priory .
9 Whatever the questions he really wanted to ask at the reprocessing plant , though , he would never allow his personal feelings to interfere with an assignment .
10 Having cleared the field of Vulgrin 's troops Richard now intended to strike at the Taillefer castles , presumably accepting the fact that this would drive Vulgrin 's father , Count William , to take his son 's part .
11 The glass moved more smoothly , more quickly , then came to rest at the figure zero .
12 McIllvanney said angrily , then turned to look at the yard where a silver-grey stretch limo , its windows tinted black against the sun , rolled ponderously to park beside the stairs to his office .
13 She stretched with remembered delight , then turned to look at the man lying so quietly next to her .
14 I once specially asked for him to be there and then demanded to know at the rehearsal who was this man sitting with the flutes .
15 I almost learned to ski at the cost of a torn jacket and a twisted elbow .
16 Morag and Mary were two such women and we never ceased to wonder at the amount of work they got through in a day .
17 He never ceased to wonder at the irony of expecting miracles from a reliquary in which her bones had once lain for only three days and nights , before being returned reverently to her native Welsh earth ; and even more to be wondered at , the infinite mercy that had transmitted grace through all those miles between , forgiven the presence of a sorry human sinner in the coffin she had quitted , and let the radiance of miracle remain invisibly about her altar , unpredictable , accessible , a shade wanton in where it gave and where it denied , as the stuff of miracles is liable to be , at least to the human view .
18 Owen never ceased to marvel at the way in which he combined incredible ingenuity within the rules with total lack of curiosity as to what went on beyond them .
19 She half turned to look at the figure beside her and this proved a near fatal mistake .
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