Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] at [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So at this moment it 's as well to look at your present experience and see how you can help yourself to extend it , before applying to audition at a drama school . |
| 2 | Social workers are highly critical of other professions ' seeming unaccountability , most notably doctors and police officers , but are notoriously unwilling to look at their own . |
| 3 | ‘ It feels great to win at my seventh attempt , ’ he added . |
| 4 | Their father was one of the first beneficiaries , and the whole family was able to gather at his 100th birthday party . |
| 5 | She wondered how long she would be able to continue at her present pace . |
| 6 | And one is encouraging them all of the time to be able to look at their own work as a group , as well as an individual , and make assessments of it themselves . |
| 7 | One afternoon we went up to Croydon St. in Karori to look at our old house . |
| 8 | Children love to discover that they can ‘ do ’ something new , and through the provision that is made and suggestions that are offered , each child is able to succeed at his own level . |
| 9 | Those sessions nearly wrecked my hearing for life , but they made me laugh so much and took up so much of my off-duty that , as time went by , sometimes , just sometimes , I was able to laugh at my one-time passion for Bill . |
| 10 | There was , of course , now a great deal more interest in Eliot than in the play , but he had stipulated in advance that he was not to be subjected to any form of publicity : no press conferences , no interviews , no speeches ; as a result , he was much more relaxed at the first night and was even able to laugh at his own jokes . |
| 11 | This species circles the porcupine like a mongoose dealing with a cobra , and confuses it enough to be able to strike at its only vulnerable zone — its head . |
| 12 | This knowledge ensures they start every letter with ‘ I know you must be swamped by requests to open bizzarres [ sic ] like these but — ’ and ‘ Your secretary assures us that you are unable to speak at our annual dinner in John O'Groats but — ’ and that 's about as far as understanding goes . |