Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surprised that he had even told anyone , let alone complimented her in her absence , Ellie looked at him in astonishment — which was a waste of time , because he had found something quite riveting to stare at in the fireplace . |
| 2 | One of the other the other things that we will erm be taking responsibility for is , is something called the Front Line Review which I want to come back too , because it 's something that will interest you as a group erm , but that 's basically again a Council learn initiative , where the Council 's want to look at over the next month all of the front line services we provide , the , the services that you come into contact with on a day to day erm level and look at , you know , are we providing a service as you want , are we providing them efficiently , how would you like to see them better provided . |
| 3 | So but nevertheless we will look at a little bit at those peripheral things , but we 're going to concentrate mainly on the design and on the delivery of a presentation so that 's what we want to what we want to look at over the next two days . |
| 4 | ‘ Mr Nichol has a lot of knowledge in the fields of mental health and this is one area we have wanted to look at for a while . ’ |
| 5 | That 's probably all we would want to look at for the time being . |
| 6 | This is a steep climb , but there are several things to look at on the way — plenty of excuses to stop and catch your breath ! |
| 7 | ‘ Aye , ’ I nodded slowly , hoping to content her with this , then looked away and up to one side as though I had just found something very interesting and important to look at on the ceiling . |
| 8 | I mean the furore about actually leasing trains has taken several years to develop erm And you just have to look at at the moment now and he does n't know if he 's sinking or swimming basically . |
| 9 | And erm I think it 's erm an , an issue for us to look at as a management team , whether we actually give it an even , even greater weighting |
| 10 | The patterns in the hewn rock were evocative , thin traceries of crystal , she imagined , beautiful whorls and arches , as fine to look at as the fine lines on a mother 's face . |
| 11 | I like a picture to be fairly full as if it is too empty it can become boring to look at after a few months , but it is very easy to get carried away with all your lovely pressed flowers and try to fit them all into one picture — using too many flowers looks just as bad as not using enough . |
| 12 | A computer is a wonderfully useful tool but it will be only a nuisance to your wife if all the language data is locked up on disks and she has nothing to look at in a spare five minutes . |
| 13 | In all In in all fairness they 're not in my opinion , not exactly the greatest thing to look at in the country are they ? |
| 14 | Erm by including conversions this time round I do n't see there 's any particular difference , we are giving the district a global figure for their districts , which they will then need to look at in the light of local circumstances . |
| 15 | There was not much else to look at in the room . |
| 16 | Apple Computer Inc 's second batch of Newtons will be notebook-sized versions of the device which it expects to ship at about the same time as the small first model , according to MacWeek : the notebook will have a landscape-mode screen with a resolution of 640 by 480 pixels ; the notepad , in contrast , has a small portrait-mode screen ; Apple will also deliver its first PCMCIA slot in the Newton this summer , but a slot for the PowerBook laptops may be further away . |
| 17 | will establish what children should normally be expected to know , understand and be able to do at around the ages of 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 and will enable each child to be measured against established national standards . |
| 18 | The cheetah maintains its status as the world 's fastest animal ( 110 km/h ) and the prong-horn antelope of the North American plains the fastest herbivore ( 100 km/h ) but , overall , predatory carnivores and their herbivore prey seem to run at about the same speed . |
| 19 | Most of the functions you need are easy to get at via the toolbar at the top of the screen , including Open , Save and Print commands . |
| 20 | They said , ‘ Yes , we know that , but it 's easier to get at from the front . ’ |
| 21 | In Britain , this began to happen at about the same time as the emergence of positivist criminology — though , again , this is not to suggest any simple causal relation , in either direction ( see Garland , 1985b ) . |
| 22 | A weekly routine of inspection has to begin at about the end of February . |
| 23 | ‘ I ca n't abide things you have to peer at through a magnifying glass before you can see them , ’ he said , and pulled open the bottom drawer . |