Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hyperactive and overactive young children often can not concentrate long enough to sit at the table and so teaching this is a very important part of learning to control them generally . |
| 2 | Now , being left-handed I 'm well used to the pitfalls : reading reviews of great-looking and top quality guitars only to find at the end of the review , ‘ No left-handers available ’ or , more niggling , ‘ 10% extra ’ . |
| 3 | On each of her periods at Hillmarden he had still clung to the faint hope that she was improving , only to find at the end of a week or a fortnight she had made no progress at all and that when Harry — good baby that he was — occasionally cried , this was enough to make Celia so distraught that Brian was forced to accept that it was better for all concerned if mother and baby remained parted . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They came close to ending the European famine last season only to falter at the end . |
| 6 | The reformers would do better to look at the health-care regimes they oversee . |
| 7 | Our amateurs were simply not dedicated enough to win at a world level . |
| 8 | But then of course Paula was so lovely she had only to look at a boy to have him crazy about her , Sally thought wretchedly . |
| 9 | One has only to look at the regularity with which courses on modelling now appear on the MRS lists . |
| 10 | Once at the Tate , they usually had time only to look at the sea and river pieces , the Turners and the Whistlers . |
| 11 | You have only to look at the shape and solidness of a barbel to see where he gets his speed and power . |
| 12 | But this is only to look at the question as a matter of law . |
| 13 | ‘ SSDs need only to look at the legislation to see they should be meeting the needs of the black community through mainstream budgets ’ . |
| 14 | I had only to look at the farmer 's face to know that the cow was worse . |
| 15 | This is n't the case at all , and to see why , one need only to look at the composition of the rocks involved . |
| 16 | We have only to look at the animal kingdom ; a creature in the wild will never overeat and , even if it has had to put effort into the hunting and killing of its prey , it will stop eating when it has had enough and walk away from the food . |
| 17 | We have only to look at the string of sell-offs of assets of the former National Bus Company groups after privatisation to demonstrate conclusively that those are not far-fetched fears or exaggerated concerns . |
| 18 | The illegals have only to look at the plight of the large Korean minority — 690,000 of Japan 's 1.1 million registered foreign residents — to know they will never be accepted in this xenophobic land . |
| 19 | To illustrate this one has only to look at the account of a pupil pursuit in a school which had thought through clearly its broad curriculum and made plans accordingly . |
| 20 | ‘ Is n't it enough to look at the work I 've produced and leave it at that ? ’ |
| 21 | It is not enough to look at the company 's accounts : the nature of the market , the stance of competitors , likely technological changes have all to be considered . |
| 22 | It was certainly and opportunity for the churches together to look at the world situation in conversation together and thus , to deepen the faith which have to proclaim at arriving at a common understanding of the situation . |
| 23 | ‘ It ca n't be that time , ’ she said , bounding up , only to clutch at the table as her head started up again . |
| 24 | Chairman , if , if I may and it is just basically to look at the recommendation and wonder you know perhaps if we 've got it the right way round er that 's all , where we 're saying er there are certain things still outstanding wh which we would need to re-relate before er issuing er general conformity notices I understand b but we 're almost taking that they 're going to do that without any doubt , now I do n't know maybe there are things not said in this report which are well understood , but and members of are quite happy to accept erm er s some more more changes to , to the local plan so that it does conform with with the structure plan , but I just wondered whether round the wrong way . |
| 25 | and er there 's enough to do at the front and the back . |
| 26 | If you have decided not only to start at the starboard end , but also to tack onto port as soon as possible , then a different set of priorities apply . |
| 27 | However , the parties involved were prepared to have their heads hit together to arrive at a solution . |
| 28 | I thought she was going to hit me : her hand which was already formed in a fist , went up — but she used it only to swipe at a cat scuttling from under a bush towards the door . |
| 29 | If you are not disciplined enough to arrive at the agency as though dressed for work you may not be taken on to the books . |
| 30 | ‘ My singing career sort of got off the ground through the show too because it was when a few of us from the show got together to sing at a benefit concert for a football club in Australia that I first publicly sang ‘ The Locomotion . ’ |