Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] [noun] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their behaviour was at times appalling ; when little they would spend long stretches of each class on the floor behind the benches , playing with bits of mercury , pricking it with needles and pen nibs , watching it slip into the coarse splintery cracks of the dusty floorboards , and forcing it out again , marvelling at the way it shrugged the dirt off its rounded shoulders . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
| 3 | In future , companies joining a group with such losses will be allowed to use them only against gains on other assets owned at the time it was acquired . |
| 4 | We may notice too that since pleasures tend to fade unless varied at every recurrence it is difficult to distinguish in practice between the man who lives for pleasure and the man who lives for new experiences . |
| 5 | Careful timing will also he required to ensure that the item is actually happening at the time it fits into the programme . |
| 6 | Having corresponded with the member or members concerned , the committee looks at the facts it has obtained and expresses a technical opinion , which it may follow up in various ways . |
| 7 | I 'm sorry Mr , I think we have to press you on this , can I can I take it from what you have said We have to press you because for the reasons we explained on Friday morning , we have to go through the sector sites , if only to find at the end it can not be done . |
| 8 | Well it automatically comes on you see it it 's all frozen at the moment it will probably shoot out itself I did try it once to try and pull it out but , I think |
| 9 | I doubt if he 'd , I mean if he 'd looked at the constitution it was only a constitution , it was oh yes , that 's their constitution . |
| 10 | ‘ Now I 'm in the voucher scheme I feel safer knowing that the council has looked at the people it employs , and if there 's any difficulty I can go to Joan [ the manager ] . ’ |
| 11 | The blade needs replacing at the moment it is snatching at the grass . |
| 12 | If she 'd confessed at the beginning it would n't have been so bad , but how could she tell them now ? |
| 13 | I mean if if I 'd done that this morning and I 'd written it all up before you came in and then said well what we 've done is this and then we did that and then we did that but as as it was generated as we discussed then then you were with me I hope at the way it went |
| 14 | She said most of it was it was n't the actual looking at the hole it was that she was hurting him pushing it in . |
| 15 | As the charity Oxfam moves into its fiftieth year , Central News South has been looking at the work it does away from the headlines of war and natural disaster . |
| 16 | ( i.e. From looking at the distribution it is possible to determine that setting a threshold score of 88 ( say ) would remove 30% of the target words from the lattice giving a lattice quality of Q70 ) |
| 17 | The mobile ALCAN unit would seem to be most mobile — looking at the background it would appear to be parked outside either Safeway or Gateway as there is a ‘ Y ’ and what appears to be part of an ‘ A ’ visible on the store front ! |
| 18 | When looking at the calendar it 's worth bearing in mind that there is usually a year 's grace between the death of the previous Phoenix King and the coronation of his successor . |
| 19 | I did n't mean that I meant when you look at a tree it 's sort of got |
| 20 | Look at the way it 's folded . |
| 21 | look at the size it 's enormous |
| 22 | oh look at the sky it 's grey , the sun came out for a minute , but it 's all grey again , oh , this sides ever so stiff |
| 23 | Now when you look at the stuff it looks qui it 's plausible , it seems to describe what you see in practice . |
| 24 | There is when you look at the picture it 's so beautiful . |
| 25 | Well look at the speed it takes a disc onto the hard disc ! |
| 26 | When we look at the cross it does tell us how much God loves us . |
| 27 | I walked down it from the top to bottom and could only marvel at the way it had been constructed . |
| 28 | The river is placid here , where it becomes patient in its long run to the sea and decides to slow and look at the land it passes through . |
| 29 | ‘ If it were sold at the price it needs to be to make a profit it would be a collector 's item , ’ says Peter Osborne , Marlow 's sales and marketing director . |
| 30 | It says things like impartial advice , does n't it for mortgages , erm in the Nottingham and the Derby paper , and then you read at the bottom it says erm an appointed representative of Legal and General . |