Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We buy theatre tickets and have the restaurant booked when , if we stopped and checked what we actually wanted to do , we might find we would much prefer to stay at home and have an early night . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Gaviria has sensibly decided to operate at arm 's length , seeking influence through private meetings with all sides . |
| 3 | Well you 've only got to look at adverts in the ruddy paper for |
| 4 | You 've only got to look at Wimbledon . |
| 5 | You 've only got to look at history … slavery which led into colonialism which developed into full-blown imperialism , right on up to the present-day immigration policies . |
| 6 | Now , it 's not clear to me at the moment that that is going to be the direction , say , of the Roman Catholic Church , because we seem to have a much more conservative Pope and there are conservative movements growing up in all the churches , you 've only got to look at Reagan 's America and the way you find counterparts to that kind of religious conservatism in all the European countries . |
| 7 | As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in |
| 8 | When I was with other girls I especially enjoyed playing at nunneries , and pretending to be nuns . |
| 9 | If you decided that you 're really only interested in long priced horses because you wanted win a large sum of money , so you only started looking at horses that were offered at fifty to one or longer odds than that , then if you look at the statistics then you 'll find that the rate of return on such bets is even lower than the rate of return that we 've quoted on football pools , but on the other hand if you look at horses which are offered , say , at odds-on or at very low odds , evens , two to one and things like that , then the rate of return is pretty close to a hundred per cent of your money . |
| 10 | She suddenly started screeching at Bruno , so abruptly that Maxim felt a jab in his spine and knew he 'd come very close to being shot . |
| 11 | This time , when the door was opened , a small black and white spaniel ran towards them , jumping around excitedly , and only stopping to sniff at Juliet 's ankles . |
| 12 | Mr Kinnock and Mr Smith may not do much to frighten us , but by the system of patronage — some would call it deference or sycophancy — which operates in this country , we will find , overnight , that respectability somehow has a new meaning : that judges , policemen , journalists , school teachers , even the local sanitary inspectors or environmental health officers , suddenly start looking at things in a different way . |
| 13 | But as more unwanted probings prodded , she was set to seriously wonder if indeed it was good enough to have called at Vendelin Gajdusek 's home and left it at that . |
| 14 | Fragments A and D contain ‘ Let ’ verses only , Fragment B contains only ‘ For ’ verses after verse 295 ( ending in verses 695 to 768 which contain the celebrated passage ‘ I will consider my Cat Jeoffry ’ , an animal Smart was apparently allowed to keep at Bethnal Green ) . |
| 15 | Tough , fit , not in the least prone to injury and highly consistent in his performances , Cross was the epitome of the ideal player , and he was versatile too , in a time when this was not really expected of a footballer , for he moved across to right-back after the signing of Scotsman Bobby Orr , who much preferred to play at number three , in 1927 . |
| 16 | To do so means looking at unions not as combinations of workers defending their interests but as male-dominated organisations which , in the name of the family wage and the male breadwinner ( Land , 1980 ) , have developed customs and practices that keep highly skilled and well paying jobs for men and relegate women to jobs of low pay and low status . |
| 17 | Dunwoody had delayed the decision until after Wo n't Be Gone Long had schooled at Towcester earlier this week . |
| 18 | There is still much work to do at Kozloduy before the world can relax , and a long term commitment is required . |
| 19 | I mean , you only have to look at top of that cupboard , and it were do n't yesterday . |
| 20 | We only have to look at Tintswalo Hospital ( Gazankulu ) and more than three surrounding villages that fall under the jurisdiction of Lebowa Authority for evidence of this inaccessibility . |
| 21 | They only have to look at Thames 's shares to see what life might mean under Labour : since the start of March they have fallen 13 per cent to 333p . |
| 22 | You only need to look at John Jensen to know it does . |
| 23 | But we can see the horror now , we only need to look at television and Yugoslavia . |
| 24 | Yet it is in precisely this sort of situation that a woman who has hitherto chosen to stay at home with her children may need to seek work . |
| 25 | And I just want to look at capital deployment here . |
| 26 | Relatives need help with grieving , for past relationships in the family can easily become crystallised at death . |
| 27 | Well you 've just got to look at section twenty eight , now section twenty five , how like we are being discriminated against how even like |
| 28 | Get your appetite where you can , just remember to eat at home . ’ |
| 29 | " I just remember feeling at home . |
| 30 | At least the night held more relevance for the manager of England who , though watching a Dutch side deprived of most of its foreign-based players , now had a chance to run the rule over a Brazil team finally set to play at Wembley on March 28 . |