Example sentences of "[pron] [vb infin] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How do you arrive at a good idea ? |
| 2 | He glanced at Lambert and saw him blaze at a green-and-yellow plane , then bank hard away as tracer scorched past . |
| 3 | Before I accept the Secretary of State 's olive branch and damn my political career in front of my colleagues on the Opposition Front Bench , will he clarify at an early stage in the Standing Committee the position about nurses in Wales , England , Scotland and Northern Ireland who take courses and then return to their own districts ? |
| 4 | A further refinement found on some models is ‘ exposure lock ’ by means of which the exposure can he preset at a particular level and held through a shot — we shall consider the reasons for wishing to do this later ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 5 | Let us glance at a familiar passage of Scripture : 2 Corinthians 5.16–21 . |
| 6 | Let us look at a real two-dimensional problem instead . |
| 7 | Let us look at a simple example . |
| 8 | Let us look at a numerical example , giving Dept . |
| 9 | Before going on to consider more problematic aspects of semantic constituency , let us look at a few more examples of the recurrent semantic contrast test in action . |
| 10 | Let us look at a few Elizabethan towns in more detail , starting with York , the secular and ecclesiastical capital of Northern England , a county town and large commercial centre . |
| 11 | Let us look at a holy man in action , and the means by which he could exercise local power in a society where constitutionalism by no means ruled . |
| 12 | So let us look at an English case which exemplifies some of the practical problems confronting the theorists of sustainable development : Twyford Down ( near Winchester ) and the route of the M3 motorway in March 1990 . |