Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says that it 's good to have somewhere to swim at lunchtimes . |
| 2 | Generally , all the clues for problem solving are there , if a little disguised at times , but it 's unlikely you will get too stuck on the easy setting . |
| 3 | Obviously there are certain key factors to any sort of reasonable living space : walls and ceiling will have to be decorated along with all the woodwork ; windows and floors have to be treated in some way ; there must be light both to see by and to enhance the space ; there should be something to sit on and probably to eat from and almost certainly somewhere to work at times . |
| 4 | In gratitude for what I thought God had given me , a second chance , I ignored Leon 's boredom as I talked him through the files — just as I was ignoring Muriel 's messages to call her — and I ignored his rarely appearing at meetings with agricultural reps and men from the Milk Marketing Board ; ignored his non-involvement with any of the humdrum things essential to the running of a place like Sleet . |
| 5 | Plover Hide is one of thirteen hides , all situated at sites regarded as particularly rewarding from a bird watcher 's point-of-view . |
| 6 | But Mr Soley defended the policy in an interview with the Guardian : ‘ The problem is most acute in rural areas , such as the South-west , where there is a growing problem of ghost villages where 70 per cent of the houses are only occupied at weekends or during the summer , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Mr Donjela ‘ Donnie ’ Wahlberg , the putative vocal stylist with the popular beat ensemble , Recent Children In The Vicinity ( aka New Kids On The Block ) , is apparently mortified at claims that he and his fellow troubadours ‘ do n't sing on their albums or at concerts . ’ |
| 8 | Every year the Indian newspapers chart Siberian crane sightings with the devotion and enthusiasm the British press usually only musters at times of royal births . |
| 9 | No it , I think it actually runs on the sixteenth but it only looks at premiums up to the fifteenth , think that 's built into the , the , the parameters on it . |
| 10 | Catering establishments of all types are constantly looking at ways of saving energy without reducing performance and there are a number of areas within the kitchen where such savings can be made . |
| 11 | The material therefore only hinted at differences in social life between them . |
| 12 | Okay , so looking at numbers of people off work , |
| 13 | So looking at clauses joined by but is one way of revealing a speaker 's or writer 's underlying , unstated assumptions . |
| 14 | If you then start talking of building supermarkets whatever , then we 're obviously looking at thefts from supermarkets . |
| 15 | The methods that she uses erm , and I think this needs to be done well before a disaster , unfortunately so often people only react at times like this and I think it 's such a pity that they do n't do it beforehand , but it 's working on basic assertiveness skills , communications skills like giving a language for feelings , erm building up support for each other , plus the creative work — getting things down |
| 16 | They got to their target area without any great difficulty , the false ‘ Germans ’ being apparently accepted at checkpoints . |
| 17 | There will be much looking at books to hunt for pictures to identify objects on the nature table and to help with model-making . |
| 18 | Wales rugby is supposed to be resurgent , so they had better look at things off the pitch as well as on it . ’ |
| 19 | However , the feminist critique should not encourage us only to look at girls . |
| 20 | They take groups of school children in to look at experiments and techniques that are far too complicated perhaps , expensive perhaps , or even dangerous , to run in a school — like X-ray crystallography and infra-red spectrometry . |
| 21 | They look wild and witty but are only worn at shows for shock value by Gruppa Iren , her small company . |
| 22 | Do not merely stare at facts which you hope to remember , but see if you can devise a memory-jogger by arranging them so that the initials form another word which , perhaps , you associate with some experience in your life . |
| 23 | I 've not only waitressed at weddings . |
| 24 | The shirt does not protect you , it merely hints at secrets . |
| 25 | Igfets have strange characteristics , which mean that they are not much use at frequencies of below a few kilohertz . |
| 26 | She sneaked a glance at Piers , who still looked highly entertained at events . |
| 27 | They had both been asked about other men who were in France and answered patiently , knowing that the distraught women who asked them were only clutching at straws . |
| 28 | It only helps at lessons . |
| 29 | In India and in the colonial environment generally the women of the ruling race were especially cosseted at stations . |
| 30 | He was nothing if not patriotic — that is , he only drank at pubs called the Queen 's Head or Arms . |