Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [to-vb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He turned round to gaze at Cord Dillon , Deputy Director of the CIA .
2 I can drive a tractor , ’ he said , and went on to speculate at length on the possibilities of the English dole .
3 We went on to look at ligand gated channels , and in particular three different classes , acetylcholine gated , glycine gated , G A B A gated .
4 Darlington Civic Theatre THE Heather Brothers ' musical knew how to pull at heart strings of those who have felt first love .
5 Then I crept forward to look at Granny .
6 You had only to look at holiday romances , she told herself , or shipboard affairs , to know that unfamiliar surroundings and propinquity acted as a hothouse , a forcing ground for unrealistic situations .
7 He continued also to thrive at North Marston , where the chapter took pains to market their investment with a modish development of the church .
8 Mr Lawrence chaired the steering group set up to look at life profit reporting and there is no doubt that he and the Prudential are the driving force behind the new proposals .
9 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 .
10 She refused even to look at Ace , although her body clamoured with a painful intensity as soon as he came to stand next to her .
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