Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says that it 's good to have somewhere to swim at lunchtimes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A local dental surgeon , Mr. Williams , was kind enough to attend at Dr. Prior 's request and he administered the gas gratuitously . |
| 4 | It is merely to stand at variance with a long established tradition — a long established system of beliefs based ultimately on someone 's speculative interpretation . |
| 5 | A subject only able to see the single large letters at the top of the chart ( the 6/60 line ) would be able only to discriminate at 6m what the normally sighted person would see clearly at 60m . |
| 6 | However , the feminist critique should not encourage us only to look at girls . |
| 7 | You had only to look at holiday romances , she told herself , or shipboard affairs , to know that unfamiliar surroundings and propinquity acted as a hothouse , a forcing ground for unrealistic situations . |
| 8 | The inbuilt bias towards the big clubs has undoubtedly fuelled inflation in the transfer market ; one has only to look at Manchester United , who raked in nearly £1m from television last season . |
| 9 | She had only to look at Mrs Jebeau 's face to see it ; in fact , she could smell trouble in that direction . |
| 10 | You have only to look at Northampton to see the truth of this . |
| 11 | But he had needed only to look at Lorrimer 's face during the past month to know that . |
| 12 | Eyes downcast , she ate without speaking , pausing only to smile at Vi . |
| 13 | She did turn her head then , but only to smile at David and marvel that he could look so happy ; but even as she watched his face seemed to grow colder and he nodded . |
| 14 | Gabby , who , with her husband , was preparing to run a guest house and had quite enough to do at home , cooked and brought down to the new house a hearty and beautifully cooked meal each evening , and filthy and exhausted the three of us would wolf it down . |
| 15 | SINCE January , when invitations for the Masters were received , those lucky and talented enough to compete at Augusta will have been fine-tuning their games to suit one of the world 's most demanding courses . |
| 16 | On 7 February 1968 he failed to meet a friend , who was worried enough to call at Adams 's house on El Roble in Beverly Hills to find out what had happened to him . |
| 17 | If you 're lucky enough to live at home , or you have your own room in college or good lodgings , you may prefer to study there ( see also Chapter 2 on accommodation ) . |
| 18 | People , they said , would do better to stay at home and contemplate the teachings of the Koran . |
| 19 | She raised her voice just enough to hint at domination . |
| 20 | The challenge , from a unionist candidate in today 's local government elections , comes only days after people from the Falls and the Shankill joined together to protest at moves to cut jobs and operations at the hospital . |
| 21 | John was soon to appear at Exeter in the court of which he previously graced the bench — this time in the dock . |
| 22 | To support himself and his wife , Edith , he daily gets up at 2.30am to work at Richmond bakery . |
| 23 | He obviously has heeded Ruskin 's advice not just to look at things but to ‘ watch ’ them . |
| 24 | Just to look at Dana fully clothed was enough to give me an erection . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ We decided that the only course was to run away to marry at Gretna Green , because her guardian , as soon as he knew of my interest , first tried to get my apprenticeship broken and then announced that his son would marry Catherine on the day of her twenty-first birthday — two weeks from now . |
| 27 | One would expect those whose dementia was more advanced or who had more problematic home circumstances to be heavier consumers of community care services , and thus to cost more to sustain at home . |
| 28 | IF YOU want to know what the future holds for Europe 's financial markets , the best guess is usually to look at America 's present . |
| 29 | Tap the Down , key once to arrive at numbering : ( Continuous ) |
| 30 | It has been an uphill battle ever since his father sent a tearful 11-year-old from the security of his Benin City home to board at West Buckland public school in Devon . |