Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Billy Crystal has a perfect wife and beautiful daughter but feels rattrapped trying to support them , Daniel Stern is having an affair with a teenage supermarket assistant and has been reduced to pretending to sleep at social gatherings in order to avoid his nagging wife , and womanising Bruno Kirby has finally tied the knot with a glamorous bimbo half his age ( ‘ soon he 'll be dating sperm ’ , observes Crystal ) and agonises over whether he can stay faithful to her . |
| 2 | Next we are going to look at nutritional deficiencies . |
| 3 | Tonight , and during the next two Tuesday programmes , we are going to look at cultural links and influences . |
| 4 | This month we 're going to look at minor scales and their application . |
| 5 | The tone was worthy , but the programmes represented TV 's first weekly series attempting to look at gay people . |
| 6 | This was reflected in the difficulty which a number of local law societies clearly experienced in attempting to arrive at agreed conclusions on the questions posed . |
| 7 | They are going to travel at great speeds a lot faster than we think is safe . |
| 8 | In these autobiographical investigations , he seems to follow an aim he had noticed in L'Intelligence des Fleurs where , at times , Maeterlinck ‘ seems to be striving to look at scientific facts in a poetical manner … . |
| 9 | The Pontiac crouched for a whole foot lower than it did before , and General Motors shareholders were beginning to complain at annual meetings of bumping their heads or not being able to wear a hat in a Buick . |
| 10 | With City struggling to defend at set pieces , Strachan again planted a free kick into the penalty area where David Wetherall released Gary Speed whose left foot shot gave Tony Coton no chance . |
| 11 | You ca n't , take your point which we 've been trying to tackle at national account level |
| 12 | CD 's reference to his succeeding the experimental philosophical pig who had died from ‘ taking a bath at too high a temperature ’ , and thus falling a victim ‘ to his thirst for knowledge ’ is a jocose allusion to Pliny 's death during the eruption of Vesuvius , which he was trying to study at close quarters . |