Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , more than 30 per cent of clients are women who are generally more successful as they are better listeners and tend not to rush at obstacles . |
| 2 | I turned back to Lloyd and tried not to look at Beeby 's legs . |
| 3 | He broke off , blushed and tried not to look at Jilly Jonathan . |
| 4 | She held out her arms and tried desperately to grab at Jones 's reins , but three quarters of a ton of racehorse hit her head-on at nearly forty miles an hour and the three went down in a heap . |
| 5 | Mrs Joyce whistled in amazement and stepped back to look at Martha , her fists now buried in her wobbling hips . |
| 6 | I can drive a tractor , ’ he said , and went on to speculate at length on the possibilities of the English dole . |
| 7 | It also challenges my attitude to the more superficially respectable , whom we simply do not want to get on with , and strive earnestly to keep at arm 's length . |