Example sentences of "[verb] at [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | In case of any doubt , locate it by a line from Mizar in the Great Bear through Polaris , and prolonged ; Cassiopeia lies at about an equal distance beyond Polaris , so that when the Bear is low down Cassiopeia is high up , and vice versa . |
| 2 | The erstwhile bandido wore a bloody nose which he was dabbing at with an oversized tartan handkerchief . |
| 3 | Can the reports of these commissions and committees be looked at as an aid to construction ? |
| 4 | The emergence of three youngsters from Ibrox , Murray , Hagen and Pressley , could be looked at as an unusual bonus but that initial impression may not necessarily be the correct one . |
| 5 | These topics are often looked at in an historical context : changes in the patterning of family life with industrialization and urbanization are examined . |
| 6 | So , we 're looked at in an ambivalent way . |
| 7 | SHOT AT during an armed hold-up , THREATENED by a violent drug gang and BEATEN UP at a party in posh Beverly Hills . |
| 8 | Later in the year the lantern of the Mid Swatch light buoy in the Thames Estuary was found peppered with holes made by shotgun pellets , while the Mucking No 5 buoy was extinguished after being shot at by an air rifle . |
| 9 | Aberdeenshire grain farmers who last autumn stiffened themselves to trade wheat against the back stop of just £95 a tonne for product sold to the EC Commission for intervention , are now looking at at an ex-farm price of £140 a tonne . |
| 10 | Cleveland Outlook social activities group meet at for an eight mile circular walk , lunch at Abbey Inn , Byland Abbey , 10.20am . |
| 11 | Fortunately , technical developments have ensured that the increase in computing power per unit cost has been growing at about an order of magnitude every 6 years over the last three decades . |
| 12 | ( i ) Without external evidence of date , the period of a mosaic is always arrived at by an extrapolation from the style of other pavements . |
| 13 | Braverman ( 1974 ) argues that scientific management and the work of individuals such as F. W. Taylor , that we looked at in an earlier chapter , encouraged the development of the control of the worker by management and that the transformation of work advocated by scientific management led to the de-skilling and to the degradation of the worker . |
| 14 | The transition from one to the other takes place after a few seconds of observation , is discontinous and can not be stopped at in an intermediate position . |
| 15 | Jabbed by elbows , trodden on , even spat at by an old man , Constance slowly pushed through the crowd , cleaved for her by her unknown protector . |