Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] at [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maria did n't need to look at his face or see the confident way he carried himself as he stepped out of the lift with her . |
| 2 | There were all sorts of disadvantages to that , but she did want to look at her own presentation and movement in the classroom . |
| 3 | Now you 'll want to look at your watch a hundred times a day . |
| 4 | How many hours a week did you use to work at your job ? |
| 5 | Talbot could n't even begin to guess at his nationality except that he was n't Greek . |
| 6 | Well these ex-patriots , I 'd like to look at their situation a little bit more carefully . |
| 7 | I 'd like to look at her background . |
| 8 | And when he passed me I did not like to look at his face because it was dark like the shadows of the hill , and when he reached the door he laughed and I did not like to hear him laugh , and when he reached the yard he stopped because Beuno was there and he said to him , ‘ She 'll be all right now . |
| 9 | The foregoing chapters will , it is hoped , form a sufficient background and we may now begin to look at their implications for the social worker and for the social work profession . |
| 10 | We may become more like them in our styles and habits ; we may begin to look at our children as our parents looked at us ; we may even assume that we will die at the age at which they died , and of the same disease or in the same way . |
| 11 | So do n't hesitate to call at your local branch and discuss matters if you want to increase your borrowing . |
| 12 | ‘ You 'd have to work at your grades . ’ |
| 13 | Like good historians we should try to look at their world through their eyes . |
| 14 | You do n't even have to look at her face , you just have to look at her neck . |
| 15 | But each country will have to look at its own resources and solutions . |
| 16 | When this is translated into personal terms , it means among other things that at some point in his or her career a teacher will have to look at its pattern and will have to pay attention to changes which ought to be made in his or her work-role . |
| 17 | ‘ Each Church will have to look at its own organisation and how it faces up to the problem but the element of mutual trust enables people to look at each other also . ’ |
| 18 | After all , you do not have to look at your feet to know what shoes you have on . |
| 19 | A garden designer who does n't wish to look at her garden is of no use to me . |
| 20 | Why do you have to shout at your dog ? |
| 21 | You may wish to get at your opponent in some way and think that this strategy will further your personal or general bargaining aims . |
| 22 | We should also try to eat at their pace , not ours , and not allow them to feel that they are holding us up . |
| 23 | It is true that the materials they hold do not embrace the full range of information that future historians would wish to have at their disposal , but the expertise and experience that they have established should not be under-estimated . |
| 24 | To avoid such problems a technologist may wish to have at his disposal a rough guide to aid the selection of solvents for a polymer or to assess the extent of polymer-liquid interaction other than those already described . |
| 25 | More often than not no-one bothers about the height factor , with the result that the speaker may have to peer at his notes or stand awkwardly or otherwise find it impossible to combine proper use of the mike with proper use of the lectern . |
| 26 | Mat was good too , because he did n't want to arrive at her place hot and flustered ; not today , not with her at the end of the walk , not with that subtle but unequivocal promise there , waiting , ready . |
| 27 | Why do you want to get at our diary |
| 28 | ‘ I look at your face , and I look at one eye and then the other and then your nose , but I ca n't seem to look at your face altogether , all at once , because the sight of your face is causing me pain . ’ |
| 29 | See this man here , he he thinks he 's comfortable with his wig , but he wears the jacket so we do n't even get to look at his hair . |
| 30 | The ground will yawn open before you , and the trees will bend to strike at your face . ’ |