Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] at the " in BNC.

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1 Blaise Cendrars , the writer , saw Modigliani let fall a twenty-franc note one evening when a well-known pauper came in to sit at the next table .
2 She cut through the heady memories and concentrated her mind on what Steve was saying while she watched a superb glossy white yacht coming in to berth at the jetty not fifty metres from the window of the restaurant .
3 John feels better , so he comes down to sit at the kitchen table and chat .
4 He bent down to stare at the floor .
5 Just before she turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ Closed ’ , a woman came in to look at the toys .
6 The C.C. said that they called him in to look at the body .
7 Er many members of the public took advantage of the offer of the more detailed appraisal er and indeed came in to look at the detailed consultants reports .
8 in to look at the job did you ?
9 Swam down to sniff at the trembling .
10 Then I hurried down to look at the ruins I had seen earlier , before the next onslaught of rough weather could begin .
11 With his second cup of tea in front of him , he sat down to look at the newspaper .
12 ‘ And you 're not having this dress , ’ Nora said , bending down to look at the price tag .
13 It was an old thing with spikes and flaps which you could lift up and down to get at the mechanics .
14 After a while she came over to Tallis and bent down to peer at the human .
15 Jason Spiteri sped unhindered up the right in the seventh minute and prolific goalscorer Alan Brett ran through to connect at the near post , giving the keeper no chance .
16 They come from all over to drink at the Bulls Head in Craswall , on the Herefordshire Wales border .
17 She reached over to look at the bacon before saying , ‘ No ; thank you .
18 I called out : ‘ I 'm going over to look at the birds , ’ and left them to it .
19 With a parting gift of prawns and fish from a friendly fisherman , we headed over to look at the islands of bum and Eigg on the way to Ardnamurchan .
20 He bent from his great height to take her right hand into his own large one , turned it over to look at the scars and callouses hard manual labour had inflicted on its once pink and white delicacy .
21 Busacher snorted , drank , and wandered over to look at the long table which had been set up right down the centre of Willi 's big living room .
22 ‘ The other day Thomas and I went over to look at the foundations of the first villa which your men have started to build , ’ she remarked , as they drank their coffee .
23 And I had one rehearsal of two Bach pieces which were really difficult and I was com , feeling completely frantic during the break in rehearsal , and went over to look at the music and some fellow called Don bounded over to me and said , oh you ca n't be you know you sh ca n't be looking at that now , ba , la dee da dee da !
24 The eerie lights would hang in the air for quite some time then the mortars came over to burst at the edge of the wood .
25 ‘ Buzzing , ’ he replied , turning the couchette over to get at the narrow bed .
26 You have already defined what the worry is , so go on to look at the cause , list different possibilities for dealing with the cause and then decide on the action which seems most likely to be effective .
27 Part 4 goes on to look at the training of parents in skills necessary for successful completion of these steps .
28 It is important to note , before going on to look at the main body of legislation in detail , that prior to 1980 , when insider dealing first became a statutory offence ( by virtue of Part V of the 1980 Companies Act ) , the legislative means of curtailing the practice was limited to disclosure provisions contained in general companies legislation .
29 The position with regard to face-to-face transactions is considered first , before going on to look at the position in relation to impersonal stock market deals .
30 Having touched on the difficulties of the past year Mr Vernon went on to look at the remarkable successes :
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