Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It brought both of the Lorrimores to their feet in an incredulous rush , but they had only to look at the faces crowding behind her to know it was true . |
| 2 | One has only to look at the contradictions between the rich north and the starving south ; between capitalist industry 's ceaseless drive for higher productivity and the health of the biosphere ; those contradictions at the heart of the EC ( the ERM , the battles over farming and fishing , etc ) ; and the fierce struggle over world trade in GATT , which will soon break out again . |
| 3 | Just before she turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ Closed ’ , a woman came in to look at the toys . |
| 4 | A small team of business experts have been gathered together to look at the ways new markets and business prospects can be fully exploited . |
| 5 | Well , you would n't think so to look at the photographs , would you . |
| 6 | Then I hurried down to look at the ruins I had seen earlier , before the next onslaught of rough weather could begin . |
| 7 | It was an old thing with spikes and flaps which you could lift up and down to get at the mechanics . |
| 8 | They come from all over to drink at the Bulls Head in Craswall , on the Herefordshire Wales border . |
| 9 | Previous standing orders had required troops first to order a suspect to halt , then to fire in the air , and finally to fire at the legs , in order to arrest the suspect . |
| 10 | With a parting gift of prawns and fish from a friendly fisherman , we headed over to look at the islands of bum and Eigg on the way to Ardnamurchan . |
| 11 | ‘ The other day Thomas and I went over to look at the foundations of the first villa which your men have started to build , ’ she remarked , as they drank their coffee . |
| 12 | I called out : ‘ I 'm going over to look at the birds , ’ and left them to it . |
| 13 | He bent from his great height to take her right hand into his own large one , turned it over to look at the scars and callouses hard manual labour had inflicted on its once pink and white delicacy . |
| 14 | He tried not to look at the screens . |
| 15 | Then I wandered outside to look at the wreaths and the Salvation Army Captain touched me on the shoulder . |
| 16 | With a cool look , and willing herself not to glance at the greetings card , Lisa reminded him , ‘ But that 's no loss to either of us . |
| 17 | Martha , who had decided to stop thinking about the inconvenience they were causing , asked Woodie not to stop at the boats ; they would like to go on to the New King 's Road . |
| 18 | It then goes on to look at the costs of protectionism so they 're , they 're looking at erm , the numerical estimates as to how much erm , protectionism costs , not only for domestic producers and consumers and tax payers , but also for third countries . |
| 19 | Tabitha got to her feet and pushed Marco aside to peer at the controls . |
| 20 | The greatest German composer of the seventeenth century , Heinrich Schutz , studied in Venice with Giovanni Gabrieli , composed Italian madrigals there , and returned twenty years later to sit at the feet of Monteverdi . |
| 21 | Interestingly Macrianus was later to die at the hands of the Franks . |
| 22 | It is time now to look at the sections of financial theory which are relevant for the valuation of securities . |
| 23 | Willie turned back to look at the comics so that he missed the surprised expression on his face . |
| 24 | He showed her the caving ones first , and then they paused for supper before going back to look at the ones of his son . |
| 25 | Cardiff spun back to look at the windows to see if that bizarre shifting and swirling of shadows was somehow caused by a lightning flash through the glass panes . |
| 26 | A wedge of frosty light clove a farmyard as someone stepped out to look at the stars in the russet sky . |
| 27 | On a fine spring morning the three grandsons got up early and went out to look at the bee-hives which they kept in the forest . |
| 28 | ‘ Will you look at that ? ’ she exclaimed , turning back to point at the grounds . |
| 29 | Johnson ( 1982 , p. 213 ) observes that MPs ‘ may attempt ingeniously to get at the activities of governmental bodies through the questioning of Ministers , but … it is not something attempted very regularly and , when it is , the attack focuses on policy and resources rather than on particular decisions ’ . |
| 30 | Dave 's verdict : lightweight travellers , cyclists and mountain marathoners would do well to look at the advantages this flexible combination system offers . |