Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [art] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They only had to wince at the racket for 20 minutes or so . |
| 2 | Luciano Pavarotti took a night off from his sell-out performances of Tosca at Covent Garden last month to appear at a Masterclass for four up and coming young singers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The wires of the fence were eventually replaced with mesh , and Halima having tried once , and finding that her leg did not go through , ceased to paw at the fence for oats . |
| 5 | Nell continued to stare at the sea for a very long time . |
| 6 | She would have been quite content simply to stare at the house for hours , and she was still sitting there when Alain opened her door and bent to look in at her . |
| 7 | If in doubt , it might be as well to look at a pattern for fabric or to measure the amount of depth on a hemline that is already a favourite . |
| 8 | He added : ‘ You only have to look at the figures for fire deaths in hotels to see this is not a problem . |
| 9 | So I 'm , I 'm just trying to look at the ones for and then we 'll go from there . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Er to look at the budget for ninety four to ninety five in ranges of seventy two million to seventy three point three . |
| 12 | A working party is to look at the provision for 16-plus age groups with special needs . |
| 13 | A chance visit to Blackwardine caused him to look at the map for features of interest . |
| 14 | I do n't even need to look at the drawing for this |
| 15 | Our first step is to look at the context for the debate about age discrimination at work ; in particular , the growth of retirement in general and early retirement more specifically . |
| 16 | Its brief , according to a resolution unanimously agreed at the UN Security Council on March 17 , was to look at the requirements for a future peacekeeping operation and to create " mechanisms to ensure humanitarian aid can get through unhindered " . |
| 17 | I know you have to come in anyway , to look at the disks for our new program . ’ |
| 18 | If , for lack of a formula , British ministries ( and no doubt ministries elsewhere ) are unable to price the amenity value of landscapes threatened by development , how on earth would any government — or , more probably a conference of governments — be able to arrive at a system for pricing the air ? |
| 19 | It is the task in front of humanity to arrive at a definition for all controversial acts and to set a value on them ; acts decided as ‘ good ’ contributing to the Godhead , acts decided as ‘ evil ’ detracting there from , and acts of an innocuous nature as ‘ neutral ’ — , and having no effect . |
| 20 | Since the discourse analyst , like the hearer , has no direct access to a speaker 's intended meaning in producing an utterance , he often has to rely on a process of inference to arrive at an interpretation for utterances or for the connections between utterances . |
| 21 | After the death of his father , Tennyson and his family continued to live at the rectory for a further six years . |
| 22 | Accordingly , he suggested separate facilities at each exchange for dealing with juveniles ; notices with information about the exchanges were to be displayed in schools ; lists of prospective school-leavers to be sent to the local exchange with details of their ‘ ability , tastes and desires ’ ; and each school-leaver to be told to call at the exchange for an interview . |
| 23 | He returned to teaching in Catholic schools , being chosen as the first African to teach at a seminary for future priests near Elmina . |
| 24 | It is clear that , despite the clamour for his resignation , Mr Lamont is hoping to stay at the Treasury for longer than most pundits would have thought possible last year . |
| 25 | Firefighters expect to stay at the scene for at least the rest of the day — the strain of working amoung the debris under which two of their friends died shows only too clear to see . |
| 26 | He expects to stay at the hotel for some years to come to oversee operations . |
| 27 | In return , the Hendersons agreed to open the new ‘ Laura Ashley ’ shop and Bernard and Laura went to stay at the Embassy for the occasion , sleeping in what had become known as the ‘ Laura Ashley ’ room at the Embassy . |
| 28 | Police believe she will need to stay at the hospital for at least another week . |
| 29 | Bathsheba had planned to stay at the party for only an hour , and she was in fact preparing to leave when Boldwood found her alone in an upstairs room . |
| 30 | Tony Thomas , the BRM Trustee told SRN that this 4-6-0 is to remain at the museum for the foreseeable future . |