Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] at [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford in the 1920s … a Sopwith Camel flies in to land at Port Meadow aerodrome . |
| 2 | He wants John Major to read the Peyrefitte document before he goes in to bat at Maastricht . |
| 3 | The inbuilt bias towards the big clubs has undoubtedly fuelled inflation in the transfer market ; one has only to look at Manchester United , who raked in nearly £1m from television last season . |
| 4 | She held out her arms and tried desperately to grab at Jones 's reins , but three quarters of a ton of racehorse hit her head-on at nearly forty miles an hour and the three went down in a heap . |
| 5 | Dot tried not to look at Gloria 's face . |
| 6 | He broke off , blushed and tried not to look at Jilly Jonathan . |
| 7 | I turned back to Lloyd and tried not to look at Beeby 's legs . |
| 8 | Better not to look at Belle Maman 's face . |
| 9 | Lesley was a devoted family girl , but at 22 she moved off to live at Warrington , 15 miles away . |
| 10 | Eyes downcast , she ate without speaking , pausing only to smile at Vi . |
| 11 | Oh mum I 've decided not to sleep at Helena 's because her nice brother 's gon na be there ! |
| 12 | He did not mention meeting Constable when the latter came up to stay at Brathay in 1806 , where he stayed with the Hardens . |
| 13 | Liverpool- born , Oliver was for five years a chorister at St Paul 's Cathedral before going on to study at Oxford University where he met with his first operatic success in The Duchess of Malfi . |
| 14 | Before going on to look at London Jamaican and Black London English in Chapters 4 and 5 , I shall discuss some relevant research and theory relating to Caribbean Creoles in Chapter 3 . |
| 15 | But he had needed only to look at Lorrimer 's face during the past month to know that . |
| 16 | He turned back to look at Sorvino . |
| 17 | Marie turned back to look at Bella as she reached the door . |
| 18 | DeVore turned briefly to smile at Berdichev before returning his attention to the scene on the other side of the one-way mirror that took up the whole of one wall of the study . |
| 19 | Hotspur had withdrawn a step or two towards the door when he turned again to look at Iago . |
| 20 | About two weeks after Len Brayton 's visit to Sleightholmedale , George rode up to work at Aumery Park Farm . |
| 21 | A camera on the far side moved , swung in to stare at Michael Bridges , sitting on George 's right , and came so close that George could see inside its Cyclops eye to the movement of the focusing mechanism . |
| 22 | Mrs Joyce whistled in amazement and stepped back to look at Martha , her fists now buried in her wobbling hips . |
| 23 | He swung round to look at Tallboy and raked him up and down with his eyes . |
| 24 | Otherwise , the lawyers have to sort out things like what rights are retained by shareholders , access to new revisions , compensation plans , employment contracts , shared AT&T/USL patents , pension plans and whether USL employees still have a right to go back to work at AT&T , an enticement used to get them to go to USL in the first place . |
| 25 | A sample : We 're coming in to land at Speke My legs are feeling very weak We 've just returned from Barcelona And now I 'm going for a sauna Toshack is of Scottish descent , and there is certainly a bit of McGonagall in there , though not the best bit . |
| 26 | The Cessna 182 was coming in to land at High Wycombe , Bucks , when it crashed in nearby Hambleden . |
| 27 | A PASSENGER jet coming in to land at Heathrow is silhouetted against a full moon shining bright . |
| 28 | Throughout the land radio listeners could sense the lethal pace of Lindwall or Miller running in to bowl at Hutton , Washbrook or Compton in that rejoicing , post-war Ashes summer of 1948 . |
| 29 | ‘ We decided that the only course was to run away to marry at Gretna Green , because her guardian , as soon as he knew of my interest , first tried to get my apprenticeship broken and then announced that his son would marry Catherine on the day of her twenty-first birthday — two weeks from now . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been in this part of the country before , remember , ’ he broke off to explain at Isabel 's surprised stare . |