Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It brought both of the Lorrimores to their feet in an incredulous rush , but they had only to look at the faces crowding behind her to know it was true . |
| 2 | One has only to look at the contradictions between the rich north and the starving south ; between capitalist industry 's ceaseless drive for higher productivity and the health of the biosphere ; those contradictions at the heart of the EC ( the ERM , the battles over farming and fishing , etc ) ; and the fierce struggle over world trade in GATT , which will soon break out again . |
| 3 | A small team of business experts have been gathered together to look at the ways new markets and business prospects can be fully exploited . |
| 4 | Well , you would n't think so to look at the photographs , would you . |
| 5 | Previous standing orders had required troops first to order a suspect to halt , then to fire in the air , and finally to fire at the legs , in order to arrest the suspect . |
| 6 | Then I wandered outside to look at the wreaths and the Salvation Army Captain touched me on the shoulder . |
| 7 | Tabitha got to her feet and pushed Marco aside to peer at the controls . |
| 8 | The greatest German composer of the seventeenth century , Heinrich Schutz , studied in Venice with Giovanni Gabrieli , composed Italian madrigals there , and returned twenty years later to sit at the feet of Monteverdi . |
| 9 | Interestingly Macrianus was later to die at the hands of the Franks . |
| 10 | It is time now to look at the sections of financial theory which are relevant for the valuation of securities . |
| 11 | Johnson ( 1982 , p. 213 ) observes that MPs ‘ may attempt ingeniously to get at the activities of governmental bodies through the questioning of Ministers , but … it is not something attempted very regularly and , when it is , the attack focuses on policy and resources rather than on particular decisions ’ . |
| 12 | Dave 's verdict : lightweight travellers , cyclists and mountain marathoners would do well to look at the advantages this flexible combination system offers . |
| 13 | There is not enough room here to look at the differences of nuance within this approach , which analyses the crisis of the uniform legal system and the monolithic concept of the state . |
| 14 | We all imagined he had some secret new money-spinning idea and soon we 'd all be amazed at what he 'd done to the place , and coming here to marvel at the crowds he 'd managed to attract … but I do n't think he was ever looking for a site for some viable business venture ; I think he was just looking for somewhere suited to his burned-out , fed-up , pissed-off mood . |
| 15 | Still , it 's natural for the novelist sometimes to fret at the obliquities of fiction . |
| 16 | But really I was there to look at the pictures . ’ |
| 17 | She took her drink to the salon , where the remains of the fire still glowed , and after a while she put on the lamps and went slowly across to look at the paintings . |
| 18 | When she asked him if they had really been as beautiful as angels , he had told her abruptly to look at the portraits , just as now , sensing that she had been hounded out of the house , he had given her something to do , a task to occupy her hands and head . |
| 19 | Lee , he 's a miracle , and you are never to scoff at the stars again . |