Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kids bring out the natural father in me and I get a crinkly mouth every time I look at an ankle snapper . |
| 2 | Part of my later training had been at the hands of an ex-SAS instructor whose absolute priority for survival was evading the enemy ; and with doubt but also awareness of danger I guessed at an enemy above our heads , not a saviour . |
| 3 | I stand at an easel to paint . |
| 4 | er flowers I bought at an auction . |
| 5 | The great man himself sits at an aircraft-carrier of a desk across the room from the entrance . |
| 6 | Some councils have also set up local enterprise boards ( many of which are now organized on a regional basis ) which operate at an arms-length from the councils and are separate legal entities with a commitment to working with financial and commercial agencies to encourage local investment . |
| 7 | This is bordered by a continental slope which inclines at an angle of around 3–6° towards the ocean basin and which is separated from it by a continental rise ( Fig. 2.5 ) . |
| 8 | The pictures on the evening TV weather forecast come from the US NOAA satellites which orbit at an altitude of around 850 km . |
| 9 | She stopped at an off-licence and recklessly bought pink champagne . |
| 10 | And if you look at an insect walking , that 's exactly what it does . |
| 11 | Add to that the landing fees ( if you train at an aerodrome that levies these ) and the usual books , maps and equipment , and you ought realistically to be able to come home with your PPL having cost about $6,600 . |
| 12 | Tibbles , who worked at an animal rescue centre , has now been expelled from the RSPCA . |
| 13 | On Aug. 5 a Beijing court handed down a four-year sentence on Gao Shan , who worked at an institute for political restructuring under the Communist Party central committee , for revealing state secrets during the 1989 democracy movement . |
| 14 | Moreover , once the precise mathematical form of f(U) has been unearthed by econometric testing , it is simplicity itself to arrive at an estimate of U * ; — one has merely to evaluate the root of . |
| 15 | The Moorings ' holidays offered through Caribbean Connection range from fully crewed charter to combined hotel and sailing holidays where you stay at an hotel on Tortola or St Lucia , either learning to sail or combining the pleasures of a beach holiday with sailing . |
| 16 | Walking south of the Great Wall he met a farm-worker who looked at an illustration of the Wall in Thubron 's tourist map . |
| 17 | Recently , I was one of three selectors of the annual New Contemporaries show , chosen from the submissions of art students and recent graduates.4 The works are entered anonymously , and after looking at more than 2,000 images , we arrived at an exhibition of 22 artists — of whom four were men . |
| 18 | If we look at an array of words as a self-referential order , we may abstract certain regularities , such as rules of grammar , sentence construction , statistics on the relative frequencies of various letters , words , etc . |
| 19 | MAKING TRACKS This month we look at an 8-track from Tascam , plus a rack-mountable tuner and the mysterously titled Power Tool … |
| 20 | We alighted at an address on doublebarrelled Park Avenue . |
| 21 | Progressing to the next century , we arrive at an edition which might well satisfy one of Sawyer and Dartoll 's criteria , that of beauty of production . |
| 22 | We looked at an offering from Cristie Electronics . |
| 23 | On the third night they stopped at an inn which was attached to a relay station . |
| 24 | They stopped at an orchid farm , spending an hour just wandering through vast greenhouses , filled with blooms of every conceivable colour and variety , some headily perfumed , others with no scent at all . |
| 25 | We shall examine how they arrived at an indicator of relative need for non-psychiatric hospital in-patient services ( which accounts for over half of the total NHS budget ) . |
| 26 | If the adventurers want to enter these rooms , they arrive at an entrance to location 49 ( see location key for areas 49–52 for more details ) . |
| 27 | They looked at an album by Howard Keel and one of them said : ‘ Oh , he could put his shoes under my bed any time . ’ |
| 28 | Stukeley 's brief description ( p. 84 , Vol. i ) reads ‘ Brigcasterton … was fenced about with a deep mote on two sides , the river supplying its use on the other two ; for it stands at an angle , and the Romans made a little curve in the road here on purpose to take it in , as it offered itself so conveniently , then rectified the obliquity on the other side of the town ; it consists of one street running through its length upon the road ; the great ditch and banks are called the Dikes . |
| 29 | Ambiguous as to whether or not Singer drowned himself , it looks at an era — 1964 to 1979 — during which the spirit of rapacious capitalism he personified was at any rate submerged . |
| 30 | He stopped at an ale-house to leave further messages with Tab the tinker for Benedicta and Watkin ; they were to lock the church after morning Mass and , if the widow felt so inclined , she should take Bonaventure back to her own house . |