Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So strong was this hankering for the Gothic and everything that went with it that many of them refused even to look at nature first-hand , but looked at it through a special lens called a Claude-glass , Claude being a French painter of the Gothic who designed his glass especially for looking at ancient ruins and alpine chasms . |
| 2 | Yet , as he revealed in one of his later outbursts , he did take Jewish pupils , perhaps without realising at first that they were so . |
| 3 | He may deliberately set out to corner the market , but do so by buying at legitimate market prices . |
| 4 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 5 | But it is nevertheless worth looking at one market in some detail — that for grains . |
| 6 | Scarcely worth mentioning at this stage is a rather pointless and uninformative letter sent to Sir Daniel Fleming by Will Kirkland on the 22 May 1692 . |
| 7 | ‘ Just like arriving at any other golf club , ’ said Montgomerie abruptly when asked of his first trip up Magnolia Drive to the clubhouse . |
| 8 | We arranged it all just by looking at each other . ’ |
| 9 | Involving affected groups of people in creative problem solving can be very effective , both in arriving at novel solutions and in gaining their commitment and understanding for the changes . |
| 10 | so it 's not two in a row yeah , we went right , er we 've been right round looking at all shops this week and we 've had a right bloody go have n't we Alec ? |
| 11 | The Leeds boss still shudders at the memory of his old Sheffield Wednesday side going 4-3 down to Chelsea in a League Cup tie seven years ago after cruising at 3-0 up . |
| 12 | I do n't think I do n't think simply by looking at auto- offs reports or E D S R work is going to solve our problems in time do you ? |
| 13 | Secondly were Mrs White 's brother and sister-in-law who were reported earlier as saying at second interview that they thought she should remain at home ‘ if things keep as they 're going now , and she gets the services she 's getting ’ . |
| 14 | 1 telescope ( either for looking at wonderful views from Chinese Bedroom or more likely for reading the label on object ten feet beyond the red cordon — seldom as rewarding as it should be , as it usually says ; Portrait of Unknown Lady by Anonymous Artist or Occasional Table in the style of Sheraton ) |
| 15 | but of course erm as a sort of public to the er , er a gesture to the public erm but one stage during the war when things were getting a bit grim on the war front , it was decided that erm , we should work extra hours as erm , to show that we were pulling our weight , so we used to , instead of starting at nine o'clock until erm half past five , and working on Saturdays as well of course , erm , we had to start at half past eight and finish at six and it was a bit of a fiasco really because nobody erm , you know , well the end of the half past five you were pretty well tired out so erm the rest of the time |
| 16 | Briggs felt he had a mission to bring this approach to the notice of his AI colleagues , who. he said , were ‘ either above looking at ancient approaches to the same problem , or … simply ignorant that such work has gone on ’ . |
| 17 | I want you to do the same for twenty four and you wo n't get it all on one line there 'll be a lot of them and then try it for thirty six and when you 're really happy with twenty four when you 're happy with twelve and you can write all those out quite happily without looking at this try twenty four see if you know see if threes 'll go fives 'll go and sevens and everything else . |
| 18 | The Commissioner has adopted a higher profile recently by exhibiting at various professional gatherings . |