Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judge Lee refused to comment at his luxury home in Malvern , Worcs . |
| 2 | Would he ever have got to the Olympics if every time he went to train at his local track he got swamped by the waste from a few thousand local toilets ? |
| 3 | In the past 30 days you have been training your body to work at its optimum potential ; and you will now have a good idea of what you can achieve by using the Walking Diet recipes and aerobic walking . |
| 4 | However , there is no denying that the picture quality does suffer at these low levels : the colours become increasingly weak and washed-out looking , and the sharpness of the definition falls off because the lens is having to work at its maximum aperture . |
| 5 | The legs and hips begin to work at their maximum power when the club arrives parallel to the ground during the forward swing . |
| 6 | TRAFFIC cops stopped comedian Sidney Harbour and booked him — to appear at their social club . |
| 7 | Before she left she had gone into her kitchen , ostensibly to lock the back door , but in fact to look at her new refrigerator , her automatic washing-machine and her food-mixer . |
| 8 | I arranged a number of meetings with various staff : with the director of nursing services to discuss the status of the ENP and to look at her additional skills ; with our business manager to discuss possible auditing tools for the scheme , availability of statistics , and so on ; with the A&E consultant , to look at my long term training needs and the |
| 9 | It ultimately means helping counsellees to look at their current self-image , and deciding how this can be improved or modified , and what has to be done in order to do so . |
| 10 | ‘ We would encourage people to look at their total income and their outgoings and work out if they can afford to take on new loans , ’ said Mr Adair . |
| 11 | These can be forms of avoidance that make it impossible for the couple to look at their marital problems . |
| 12 | One of the ways of understanding long-gone societies is to look at their cultural artifacts . |
| 13 | The second is to look at what visual systems do , build something that will do the same job , and then determine whether it works in the same way as a real visual system . |
| 14 | In those areas people can see what Labour councillors are doing for them and they only have to look at what Labour councillors are achieving locally and they will transfer their votes to labour for a national election ’ . |
| 15 | To understand why all this is sad rather than funny , it is necessary to look at what conductive education claims to be and some of the wider issues that it raises . |
| 16 | The proctologist shook his head then turned to look at our private scrap of paradise . |
| 17 | The way it is at present , we can not , we can not get more loot to put into the new project but the bank manager , i.e. the Chancellor of the Exchequer , reminded us a few months ago that the other way of funding our projects he encouraged us to look at our current assets and if possible liquidate some of that asset and fund it , or or use it to fund our new schemes and this Mr Mayor is what we should be doing . |
| 18 | Basically , we decided to look at our decade-old policy on rights of way and access to open country . |
| 19 | One afternoon we went up to Croydon St. in Karori to look at our old house . |
| 20 | So at this moment it 's as well to look at your present experience and see how you can help yourself to extend it , before applying to audition at a drama school . |
| 21 | I arranged a number of meetings with various staff : with the director of nursing services to discuss the status of the ENP and to look at her additional skills ; with our business manager to discuss possible auditing tools for the scheme , availability of statistics , and so on ; with the A&E consultant , to look at my long term training needs and the |
| 22 | ‘ Father Laverty came to see me in hospital two days after the birth and had the nerve to look at my beautiful baby and ask me to put her up for adoption . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It is indecent for a Muslim to look at his private parts and his excretion . ’ |
| 24 | Spatz said , turning to look at his Senior Technician . |
| 25 | If you are to follow a weight loss programme , while continuing to exercise at your present level , there are two important points to remember . |
| 26 | The tall girl turned away from the screen she was monitoring to smile at her immediate boss . |
| 27 | Leith got started on her work , doubting very much that they would so much as catch a glimpse of their new ‘ colleagues ’ , but she had to smile at his quaint terminology for the higher ranks . |
| 28 | He looked north to where the City ended abruptly on the shores of the icy Baltic , then turned to smile at his personal secretary , Chang Shih-sen . |
| 29 | But what I want to do at my present moment is maintain my share of the business . |
| 30 | The Post Office has chosen to arrive at its net cash flow from operating activities by using the direct method rather than the indirect method . |