Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that I , I would n't be adverse , I know it means you know you , you , if you put s some extra into one thing you 've got to take it away from somewhere else , but I , I , I would be quite happy to see them look at special needs and whether we actually need even more careers officer time for that . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If you present someone with a set of stripes on a TV screen and make them move at right angles to their long axis , that is the direction in which the person will see them move . |
| 4 | The Air Force , again for reasons of cost , wants them based at existing missile sites in Wyoming , whence they would flee when a crisis loomed . |
| 5 | He paused a moment , and when he found that the horse was no longer rebellious , and only impatient to gallop , he let him go at full speed . |
| 6 | Baldwin , like Hunter , has played in New Zealand before at club level , but to seen them play at international standard was a revelation . |
| 7 | ‘ Haff you heard at aal apout a maan caald Menzies ? ’ one asked the other in a broad parody of the Gaelic accent . |
| 8 | I had seen it happen at close quarters because I am his caddie . |
| 9 | First , let us look at surplus labour . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | I was in favour of hauling him in last week , but the powers-that-be thought it better to let him remain at large for the time being , in the hope that he might lead us to his employers . ’ |
| 12 | Unfortunately , the evidence which would enable us to arrive at firm conclusions is by no means straightforward . |
| 13 | There were big baskets of flowers everywhere and waitresses were giving everyone sparkly drinks and asking them to sit at long tables in the dining room . |
| 14 | He admits the scheme cramped his dress sense and made him sweat at official functions , but he hopes he has given the people of Hawick ‘ a sense of purpose , pride and awareness of the quality of world-class knitwear they produce ’ . |
| 15 | We began by considering that channels can be studied by conventional or macroscopic techniques , or alternatively by so-called microscopic methods , which enable us to look at single channel currents . |
| 16 | Since the kite has a lift component to enable it to accelerate at certain positions around the hemisphere it also has what is known as an ‘ apparent wind ’ and it is this which sustains the motion within the flight envelope . |
| 17 | Improvements Do you look at different ways of doing things and how you can make things easier and better ? |
| 18 | This was one of the voyages in which the men of science were in charge , in that the point of the expedition was scientific ; often there had been frustration among scientists on voyages because the captain 's instructions , or his interpretation of them , did not let him stay at interesting places as long as they would have liked , or put enough boats and crews at their disposal . |
| 19 | These factors take us beyond the study of language , in a narrow sense , and force us to look at other areas of inquiry — the mind , the body , society , the physical world — in fact , at everything . |
| 20 | You left them thrashin' at thin air . |
| 21 | So then this technique enables you to look at single channel currents , and moreover , if you 've got a partially er purified preparation of endomembranes it enable to look at channels in endomembranes too . |
| 22 | Two dissident Myanma students hijacked a Myanma aircraft on a domestic flight and forced it to land at U-tapao military air base in Thailand on Oct. 6 , 1989 . |
| 23 | ‘ The achievement has important implications for the region as it enables us to look at economic development in a European context . |
| 24 | As a definition , this has its flaws but it can still help us understand better what health care should be about and enables us to work at improving health care provision . |
| 25 | ‘ You had us worried at Central Office after the by-election Joe , but you certainly proved us wrong three months later , ’ said Mr Parkinson , slapping him on the back . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought I might find them laughing at poor Daddy , ’ Rose said , allowing her own shock and fear to ease out in the nervous laughter , but Maggie 's face remained pale and serious . |
| 27 | You 've got okay you 've got something like a six I do n't even know what time the train comes they change at different times , the one I 've caught was at five past nine train . |
| 28 | A UK company has a US parent , which often instructs it to look at possible acquisitions around the world . |