Example sentences of "[to-vb] at the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the princess 's soldiers began to batter at the doors of the wooden fortress with their axes . |
| 2 | The lead managers of all Heron 's bonds are to meet at the offices of Credit Suisse in Zurich on Monday to plan a concerted response after hearing outline proposals from the company in London last Friday . |
| 3 | He knew nothing , nothing , of what Sally-Anne had had to suffer at the hands of one of the monsters who controlled … what were his weaselling words ? … the mechanism . |
| 4 | She tried to control an urge to pull at the ropes of jewels , coils of bracelets , the heavy tiara pressing into her scalp . |
| 5 | At last a smile began to pull at the folds in Sir Charles 's face , as if his cheeks really were wallets and his smile was going through them , looking for cash , then the smile turned to laughter , it pushed between his teeth , it was dry and rhythmic , it sounded uncannily like someone counting a stack of dollar bills . |
| 6 | In this , the scene is divided into three sections both horizontally and vertically , and the idea is to line up the shot so that the main features are made to come at the intersections of the imaginary dividing lines . |
| 7 | to blur at the edges with fever |
| 8 | Without his Histories in Four Books we should know virtually nothing of what happened in the months following Louis the Pious 's death , and , more importantly , we should have had to guess at the motivations of those involved . |
| 9 | Sometimes she dared to wonder at the causes for this way of life , for she could see that it did not represent a normal attitude towards society , though it was so deeply bred in her that all aberrations from it were for the rest of her life to seem to her perverse : but when , occasionally , she glimpsed some faint light of causation , she recoiled from it and shut her eyes in horror , preferring the darkness to such bitter illumination . |
| 10 | As they walked up towards the main road , he was surprised to see her turn round to wave at the policemen as if they were old friends . |
| 11 | Still , it 's natural for the novelist sometimes to fret at the obliquities of fiction . |
| 12 | It is now daylight and another new day , as we continue to trudge along the road ; there is no conversation , it 's just heads down and continue to look at the boots of the man in front . |
| 13 | ‘ No , I want to look at the ponies with Ricky , ’ said Perdita , frantic not to miss a minute . |
| 14 | It is time now to look at the sections of financial theory which are relevant for the valuation of securities . |
| 15 | However , what I have done is to use detailed assignment printouts given to me by the County Council , it 's erm these things here , to look at the changes in traffic flow along the whole length of the A sixty one between its southern junction with a proposed western relief road and its northern junction with a western relief road . |
| 16 | Graham Game , a full-time green activist , hopes to win a commission to look at the dangers of a spill along the coast of Essex , the county 's prime natural asset . |
| 17 | I think erm there is some dispute as to erm what size the new settlement must be to become what 's termed an integrated and balanced community , and given the importance of this issue , and it has been with us for the last three years , ever since the new settlement was first proposed , erm I find it very surprising that North Yorkshire County Council have not undertaken any work of their own on this subject area , and have relied instead on a a residual approach to find the new settlement size , and I must say I find that very unsatisfactory , what North Yorkshire County Council are inviting you , erm , to accept is whatever size the residual for Greater York is , you know , has been in the past I should say , proposals from the public , from the private sector have come forward , an and the County Council have used those proposals as confirmation that the new settlement of that particular size was viable , it 's a sort of self fulfilling prophecy , now I think that 's unacceptable , what they have n't done is the second part of the technical exercise , which is to look at the thresholds of the various services and facilities required in the new settlement . |
| 18 | ‘ The other day Thomas and I went over to look at the foundations of the first villa which your men have started to build , ’ she remarked , as they drank their coffee . |
| 19 | Firstly , it is important to look at the stages of budgeting and move from the functional processes of acquisition , allocation , spending and control to the more strategic resource activities of planning , choice and evaluation . |
| 20 | No , we were to look at the houses round the small port , and at their inhabitants . |
| 21 | He added : ‘ You only have to look at the figures for fire deaths in hotels to see this is not a problem . |
| 22 | He showed her the caving ones first , and then they paused for supper before going back to look at the ones of his son . |
| 23 | So I 'm , I 'm just trying to look at the ones for and then we 'll go from there . |
| 24 | One , which could be seen as a little circular , is to look at the brains of mammals alive today and determine what they have in common . |
| 25 | Twenty years ago I took the same journey to look at the ruins of Glastonbury , destroyed by Fat Henry and his evil spirit , Thomas Cromwell . |
| 26 | ‘ We have to look at the movements of the BNP and what they are doing . |
| 27 | ‘ And we have to look at the movements of the BNP and what they are doing . |
| 28 | We are establishing an ethical committee to look at the effects of advanced techniques in animal breeding . |
| 29 | I should however indicate that to understand properly what is the appropriate position for an inset boundary , I have to look at the reasons for there being an inset at all for the village , as , as you correctly indicate , it lies plainly otherwise within the general extent of the greenbelt . |
| 30 | H3 is hard to study under trial conditions since any school agreeing to help with trials is making some commitment to look at the materials beyond the norm . |