Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reader only has to glance at a good modern textbook of infant development ( say , Bremner 's Infancy ) to get the main message : very young humans are prodigiously skilled at picking up geometric and social information , and this can be seen both informally ( a neonate turning to a voice ) and in the laboratory . |
| 2 | Anyway , she was only going to look at a cottage . |
| 3 | It was two hours before he felt sufficiently recovered to stop at a phone box and report in . |
| 4 | Have you ever said , ‘ I think I was meant to be big ’ or ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2 lbs ( 0.9kg ) ’ or ‘ I ca n't diet ’ ? |
| 5 | ‘ I was a big baby — I 'm obviously meant to be this size ’ , ‘ all my family are big ’ , ‘ I 've tried every diet , they just do n't seem to work for me ’ , ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2lbs ( 0.9kg ) ! ’ |
| 6 | You only have to look at a prole in this book and it rolls over to have its tummy tickled . |
| 7 | ‘ You only have to look at a picture of him when he resigned and compare it with one from six months beforehand . |
| 8 | ‘ I know that , ’ Candy returned ruefully , ‘ and it 's always been the bane of my life that you can eat your way through a tuckshop without gaining a pound while I only have to look at a picture of a cream cake to make the scales groan . ’ |
| 9 | We put this to you as an answer to all slimmers who say they only need to look at a single cake or bar of chocolate to put on a substantial amount of fat . |
| 10 | Now I just want to look at a simple class of demand function , right , which we could write , if I can get a pen that works we write the demand function as P equals A over Q to the beta . |
| 11 | Actually , I missed some good ones in the couple of days ' holiday I took ; if I 'd just bothered to look at a single fucking news-stand after I left Stromeferry I 'd have seen this story starting to break about this guy — ‘ The Red panther ’ the tabloids decided on eventually — murdering these right-leaning pillars of the community . |
| 12 | The population of the town soon began to expand at a phenomenal rate . |
| 13 | Letting Swindon , Stoke and Honved score goals past them quite easily seems to point at a suspect defence . |
| 14 | They lasted all too shortly — maybe a fortnight or so — before they needed to be recharged , and they always seemed to fade at a crucial time , in the middle of your favourite programme . |
| 15 | For some specialised yarns , say those with knops , or the hairy yarns , you will probably need to work at a looser tension for the cables to show but this is not to their disadvantage since the cables , loosely worked , frequently add to the richness of the finished look . |
| 16 | Recruitment clearly has to continue at a high level so as to maintain C&P 's scientific excellence [ and relevance ! ] . |
| 17 | And I 'll I 'll probably have to look at a you know s Cath and I have to sit down and say , Look for every course , this needs to happen . |
| 18 | The couple were also forced to sell at a loss , the nearby post office and general store , which were also found to be contaminated . |
| 19 | It therefore has to aim at a carefully judged angle to the apparent direction if it is going to score a hit . |
| 20 | In the bond market , the Bank does not actively try to sell at a time when prices are falling ; indeed its spokesmen have often asserted that it can not sell in such conditions , that the views of investors in the short-term are predominantly extrapolative and that few will wish to buy stock when the price is falling . |
| 21 | A contract is therefore concluded to sell at a price P for a set period ( the exact length of this period is of no immediate concern ) . |