Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [to-vb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before he reached them Paul and Joseph had hoisted the two boys , aged eleven and thirteen , onto their shoulders and were encouraging them to joust at one another with chopsticks from the table . |
| 2 | The following May I called him , got through his secretary by saying Mr. Jones asked me to call at this office , which was more or less true , erm , so I got through to him , and said , my name is Ricky Elliot , we met at the N E C , you asked me to give you a call this month about time management training . |
| 3 | This led me to look at various conventional sorts of murder which could be seen as being idea or perfect murders , with the notion of reversing one of them . |
| 4 | Despite its alarmingly boring title , it has nothing to say at all about the Ford Administration : it starts off in the wholly recognisable Updike Couples-land of middle-aged infidelity in New England academia , before broadening into reflections on the way sexual liberation became virtually mandatory in the hot years of the late 1970s ( the Ford years ) . |
| 5 | You 're beginning to sound like a mother hen ; I half expect you to cluck at any minute . ’ |
| 6 | Tickets are valid all day enabling you to alight at one attraction before re-boarding a later bus and heading to another . |
| 7 | When you 've done that I want you to look at this . |
| 8 | I urge him to look at one current study which concerns the possibility of moving the sea systems control first to temporary accommodation and then , in 1995-96 , to permanent accommodation . |
| 9 | And , although this huge deficit is in large measure a consequence of the fall in tax revenue and the cost of unemployment in the recession , the IFS expect it to remain at this level for some years even if a gradual recovery does take place . |
| 10 | And , although this huge deficit is in large measure a consequence of the fall in tax revenue and the cost of unemployment in the recession , the IFS expect it to stay at this level for some years even if a gradual recovery does take place . |
| 11 | I mean obviously I 'd have to pay more er for if I want it to end at sixty . |
| 12 | She did n't know what to say at all . |
| 13 | I do n't know what to do at all . |
| 14 | One of the advantages of using drama in this way ( when the narrative continues over a period of several weeks ) is that both the teacher and the children can change roles , enabling us to look at any given topic from different points of view . |
| 15 | Well that 's because , perhaps because , when they were young children people directed them in that kind of decision making , or look people directed them to look at those sorts of levels . |
| 16 | The poor thing can hardly bring herself to speak at all . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't like this conversation , if you do n't mind , ’ Jenna said primly , wanting him to stop at all costs . |
| 18 | And it is not possible for us to know anything at all about him unless he is generous enough to disclose himself Another book in this series has tackled the question of revelation ; suffice it to say at this point that without revelation we can not say anything about the Lord who is Spirit . |
| 19 | Suffice it to say at this point that because of the complex and changing world in which the public sector operates , implementation of policies may solve certain problems but is likely to throw up further problems which in turn need to be solved : hence the cyclical nature of the policy-making process . |
| 20 | There appears to be a gimmick on the throttle causing it to idle at some 1200 rpm when cold , although it drops back to 600 rpm when hot . |
| 21 | So Open Server for Kix is an A P I , an application programming interface , which allows us to get at S Q L data on D B Two S Q L , but also allows us to get at any another database or application system which resides in . |
| 22 | RECENTLY , 12 WOMEN who accused Barclays Bank of sex discrimination for forcing them to retire at 60 have won a total of £160,000 , and their jobs back . |
| 23 | Actually the tea shop benefited slightly , because we 'd introduced a new line of rock cakes that week , and some rioters came round to buy them to throw at middle class people . ’ |
| 24 | The question of hedgerows , maintaining natural areas of woodland , etc. leads me to look at another area which causes concern not just to the RSPCA but many other animal welfare groups . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd like you to look at these numbers . ’ |
| 26 | So she allowed herself to return at last . |
| 27 | Well I 'd like to see a very open report , and that 's why I Mr , and I 'd like him to look at all the options , we 're deferring this so that we can see what 's possible , you know , , perhaps Hanson Trust would like to come along and offer us fifty million pounds for it , that 'd be a fair deal would n't it , perhaps somebody else would do that . |
| 28 | Furthermore , while in former times the responsible authorities strove their hardest to mitigate poverty , of circumstance and opportunity , by driving hard for high levels of education provision , low expectation still depressed educational achievement , and work-related training in industry continued to be low-grade — where employers allowed it to happen at all . |
| 29 | While we 're deciding what to look at next , I ask John what Quo are up to presently … |
| 30 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |