Example sentences of "[vb -s] at the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marion Russell stands at the threshold and peeps cautiously round the edge of the door , surveying the arrangement of people and furniture as a thief might case a property for ease of entry and swiftness of escape . |
| 2 | The smith stands at the side but only his arm survives on the edge of the sherd ( fig. 14.23 ) . |
| 3 | But , oddly , snow can be quite comforting on long , steep slopes , especially if the slope widens at the base and does n't culminate in a 100-foot drop over cliffs . |
| 4 | She stitched satin ribbon under the bust , bows at the hips and tied a silk cravate . |
| 5 | He finishes at the front and brings the machine round to the back lawn where my sister is having her picnic . |
| 6 | It 's about collison of cultures in Britain since the end of the war , and it looks at the way that some artists of non-British origin have come to terms with modern art — or , rather , have made a personal art by calling on ways of expression that might have been absolutely native to them in other countries than this . |
| 7 | And Beuno said nothing , but he looked at him as mildly as he looks at the trout that he catches in the stream , and the doctor said , ‘ Until tomorrow ’ , and he left , and Beuno watched him go as mildly as he watches the sheep when he frees them from where they are caught in the hedge . |
| 8 | James Beck 's long awaited monograph looks at the man and his achievement ; in his pages , Jacopo della Quercia is championed as the least provincial and most ‘ Italian ’ of fifteenth-century sculptors , an artist sensible to his environs , constantly adjusting his own stylistic language , and eventually producing an individual synthesis of classical , gothic , and contemporary influences in his major works . |
| 9 | Comedy king Dave Allen returns for a series of six half-hour performances starting on January 5 and Margi Clarke looks at the ins and outs of sex from every conceivable position in The Good Sex Guide ( Jan 11 ) . |
| 10 | Below we include a brief extract from this study which looks at the problems and consequences of conviction for the business , ‘ respectable ’ criminal in comparison to the regular criminal — bearing in mind , of course , that the business criminal is far less likely to be convicted that most other types of criminal . |
| 11 | The exhibition also looks at the making and selling of instruments on Merseyside over the past 200 years . |
| 12 | He goes into a restaurant and he says oh the waiter erm let me see the menu and he looks at the menu and said right , he said . |
| 13 | It 's a bit like asking why someone looks at the sky or watches the sunset . ’ |
| 14 | An additional study looks at the scale and organisation of multiple-earning households . |
| 15 | Errol Dow , Market Research Manager , Personal Banking Services , looks at the campaign and its results . |
| 16 | DECLAN McGRATH LOOKS AT THE RISE AND FALL AND RISE AGAIN OF ROCK MUSIC IN BELFAST |
| 17 | Kathleen Mannis , Belfast Parks Department , looks at the changes and development of ‘ Bellevue Zoo ’ over the last ten years . |
| 18 | The second finding looks at the impact that CNN has had on the viewing of news . |
| 19 | She looks at the fighters and curses to herself , ‘ Waste , waste , waste . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ The Society also looks at the loans that are six months or more in arrears but have not been taken into possession , and adds a percentage of such arrears to the specific provision figure . |
| 21 | Do you that a child 's mind works in this way , as he or she looks at the world and finds meaning of in it , and are others who are influenced by their own experiences and by their conclusions of others . |
| 22 | Robert Tyerman looks at the causes and assesses whether the fall has further to go . |
| 23 | Step one the open , this looks at the introduction and the purpose of the appointment . |
| 24 | James Chapman looks at the advances that have since been made in diver deployment and recovery . |
| 25 | The student looks at the picture and hears a comment ; the student patiently replies , reading his answers aloud . |
| 26 | She sits on my lap , looks at the photograph and tells me her dream . |
| 27 | Environmental Issues looks at the results and some of C&P 's initiatives to help clean-up the waterways . |
| 28 | The other one glances at the sunset and remarks , Ha , it looks like being a wet day tomorrow . |
| 29 | He thumbs through it , glances at the summary and goes red in the face . |
| 30 | Petalling starts at the bottom and works up , overlapping so it looks like a tiled roof because theoretically that sheds the rain . |