Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We buy theatre tickets and have the restaurant booked when , if we stopped and checked what we actually wanted to do , we might find we would much prefer to stay at home and have an early night . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Gaviria has sensibly decided to operate at arm 's length , seeking influence through private meetings with all sides . |
| 3 | Well you 've only got to look at adverts in the ruddy paper for |
| 4 | You 've only got to look at Wimbledon . |
| 5 | You 've only got to look at history … slavery which led into colonialism which developed into full-blown imperialism , right on up to the present-day immigration policies . |
| 6 | Now , it 's not clear to me at the moment that that is going to be the direction , say , of the Roman Catholic Church , because we seem to have a much more conservative Pope and there are conservative movements growing up in all the churches , you 've only got to look at Reagan 's America and the way you find counterparts to that kind of religious conservatism in all the European countries . |
| 7 | As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in |
| 8 | This time , when the door was opened , a small black and white spaniel ran towards them , jumping around excitedly , and only stopping to sniff at Juliet 's ankles . |
| 9 | Fragments A and D contain ‘ Let ’ verses only , Fragment B contains only ‘ For ’ verses after verse 295 ( ending in verses 695 to 768 which contain the celebrated passage ‘ I will consider my Cat Jeoffry ’ , an animal Smart was apparently allowed to keep at Bethnal Green ) . |
| 10 | Tough , fit , not in the least prone to injury and highly consistent in his performances , Cross was the epitome of the ideal player , and he was versatile too , in a time when this was not really expected of a footballer , for he moved across to right-back after the signing of Scotsman Bobby Orr , who much preferred to play at number three , in 1927 . |
| 11 | There is still much work to do at Kozloduy before the world can relax , and a long term commitment is required . |
| 12 | I mean , you only have to look at top of that cupboard , and it were do n't yesterday . |
| 13 | We only have to look at Tintswalo Hospital ( Gazankulu ) and more than three surrounding villages that fall under the jurisdiction of Lebowa Authority for evidence of this inaccessibility . |
| 14 | They only have to look at Thames 's shares to see what life might mean under Labour : since the start of March they have fallen 13 per cent to 333p . |
| 15 | You only need to look at John Jensen to know it does . |
| 16 | But we can see the horror now , we only need to look at television and Yugoslavia . |
| 17 | Yet it is in precisely this sort of situation that a woman who has hitherto chosen to stay at home with her children may need to seek work . |
| 18 | The boat was too small for a long journey , and I did not want to die at sea . |
| 19 | It is understood , in any case , that Keegan would not want to work at St James 's Park with Sir John holding control in the boardroom . |
| 20 | She did not want to look at Alice . |
| 21 | She focused all her concentration on getting it right , not daring to look at Nathan , or even to think about what would happen next . |
| 22 | Nutty waited with bated breath , not daring to look at Nails , trying to look bored and world-weary . |
| 23 | ‘ I can spare a few days , ’ Jenna assured her , not daring to look at Alain . |
| 24 | Feeling desolate , she climbed back into the car , not daring to look at Roman in the silver moonlight . |
| 25 | The normal working was not booked to stop at Chester but the second part , inserted at very short notice , was scheduled to change locomotives there . |
| 26 | And I just want to look at capital deployment here . |
| 27 | Helen pulled on her jacket and walked quickly towards the door , not wanting to look at Mike . |
| 28 | On his journey back to Paisley , Drummond did not neglect to stop at Boquhan and call upon Mrs. Mary Campbell , who in turn advised her cousin Lord Milton that Drummond ‘ said he wou 'd a road a hunder miles to serve our intrest & while he lives you may command him in any manner in his power ’ . |
| 29 | We can not expect to arrive at consensus easily — there are a lot of things which may not seem to fit at all — but we can at least want to find out what is in common before worrying about what appears to contradict . |
| 30 | Concentrate on the details of a single system ; do not expect to arrive at generalizations by picking up ethnographic snippets from here , there and everywhere . |