Example sentences of "you [vb mod] [verb] at a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You wo n't tear any major muscle groups laughing during Crimes and Misdemeanours or Hannah and her Sisters , for example ; but you may marvel at a film-maker at the height of his powers .
2 You must look at a film of him and do all you can to emulate his behaviour . ’
3 There are literally hundreds of these , and you should look at a catalogue of the Central Statistical Office to see what is available .
4 If you can not have a separate freezer you should look at a refrigerator with maximum freezer space and capacious food storage compartments .
5 Pop and plainchant , Otis Redding and O'Riada , ‘ Walk On The Wild Side ’ and ‘ Faith Of Our Fathers ’ — an average Pierce Turner album features more couplings than you 'd find at a business executive conference in Bangkok .
6 That 's right , that 's right , yes , how we consume these products , yes , I mean , you 're right , so a potato is a potato is a potato , but if it 's pre-packed , graded and washed , that is sort of intrinsically different from er , er , sort of , mouldy , scruffy old potatoes that you could buy at a greengrocer .
7 Eventually , you will arrive at a palette that has all the sections in the palette box an even shade of grey .
8 You will see at a glance the number of calories and the quantity of dietary fibre ( when present ) in a whole average-sized eating apple , or a carrot , or a rasher of bacon .
9 You receive a book of orders ( or pension book ) which you can cash at a post office of your choice .
10 You can tell at a glance what it is that ails a cow or a sick calf better than any vet .
11 You can only go in the future direction in time , but you can go at a bit of an angle to it .
12 It 's thirteen fifty a ticket , it 's erm , I do n't think you can moan at a night out for that , especially a night out like that
13 In this chapter , I describe some of the tricks you can perform at a party to increase interest , particularly if you do not have an entertainer .
14 Different individuals work at different speeds — you are more likely to achieve most if you can work at a speed which challenges you but which is not beyond your capacity to attain .
15 You may also find it useful to know a binocular 's field of view — usually expressed as the width of the area you can see at a distance of 1000m or 3,280ft .
16 Subtract your expenses from your income and you can see at a glance how much income is left to spend .
17 By studying the enclosed repayment table you can see at a glance how much a loan will cost .
18 If we 're just talking about the niceties of the way these things are laid out , previous set of procedures say things like page one-o-two , page one-o-three etc , and I think that is probably good practice if you can look at a page number and so you know exactly how many pages to expect so , we can probably do that when we re-issue these procedures as well .
19 Perhaps you can look at a book ?
20 Styled in hard-wearing canadium , it has a built-in meter so that you can know at a glance if you 're applying enough pressure .
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