Example sentences of "[to-vb] at the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | To see how destructive such an inflation can be , one only has to look at the hyperinflation which occurred in Germany in 1922–23 . |
| 32 | After a bit , he took off his debonair jacket and lay back on the bed in a beautiful fluted shirt , much creased , holding her newspaper over his head to look at the article she had been reading . |
| 33 | I began 1982 with a series of visits to look at the issues which were facing the health service . |
| 34 | I would like to look at the people who are being cared for , the people that we 're talking about , are the elderly , quite often these people have lived through two world wars and given up their young married life , they have brought up their children through the bleak days of the general strike , is it right that these people have to suffer the indignity of charity hand-outs ? |
| 35 | She was pretending to look at the people who were passing in the street , but Burun was not deceived . |
| 36 | There are situations where the reciprocal of a rate would make more sense than the original rate : ergonomists , for example , might find it more natural to look at the time it takes a person to produce a fixed number of items rather than at the output a person produces from a machine in a fixed period of time . |
| 37 | Now now then Geoff we do n't go to Nottingham to look at trees we do n't go to Nottingham to look at the countryside we go to see the shops and spend money . |
| 38 | One does not have to look at the report which the hon. Member for Gordon has thrown away with such disdain . |
| 39 | I welcome the initiative that have already been started within the County and I shall be going to look at the site which is being offered to us , er but I do feel that we should be progressing these matters as soon as possible . |
| 40 | Well the first want to say hi two to look at the policy we have with us to make sure they 're so good as originally intended . |
| 41 | Hall defended the action he had taken and proposed that ‘ during the recess , to look at the designs which had been approved by the judges , and endeavour to ascertain the expense of carrying them out ; but nothing further would be done until the House was informed on that point ’ . |
| 42 | I think we have to look at the climate we 're in ; we 're , at the moment the AIDS epidemic is facing all of us , it 's a problem for each and any , every one of us . |
| 43 | I think we need I accept I think we need to look at certain areas we need to look at the entrance I mean if we were doing the entrance again we would have electric doors on what like they 've got on the Harvey Centre so you do n't have to fight your way in I 'm thinking of doors like this we 'll do that . |
| 44 | As Marianne walked to the door , she turned away , unable to look at the woman who 'd brought her world crashing about her ears like a fragile house of cards . |
| 45 | It is necessary to look at the words which appear at the foot of the defined expressions in section 251 . |
| 46 | Both are in accord in suggesting that the way to decide whether a disposition is a trust or not is to look at the words it employs . |
| 47 | Erm I think it 's just a little too much looking over their shoulder because sh to , to , in order to look at the camera she 's having to keep her eyes over really , yo you know really over to her er right , and erm it tends to be a little bit erm uncomfortable . |
| 48 | There was no time to look at the cuttings he had given her , and Loretta put the envelope in her bag . |
| 49 | On a fine spring morning the three grandsons got up early and went out to look at the bee-hives which they kept in the forest . |
| 50 | He says : ‘ SCL asked to look at the deal I was putting together and straight away they said the biggest problem is conflict of interests . |
| 51 | At [ another ] desk sat Winston doing similar lists in red ink , sipping whisky and soda , getting redder and redder , rising and going out often to glare at the machine himself , hunching his shoulders , bowing his head like a bull about to charge . ’ |
| 52 | It is true that we are more enlightened than we were ; there is a public which has learnt to smile at the reviewer who declares that a line ‘ will not scan ’ , or that it contains a ‘ trochee ’ where it should have had an ‘ iamb ’ , without considering whether it was ever intended to ‘ scan ’ , or whether there is anything in English verse which can be treated as the absolute equivalent of a Greek or Latin trochee . |
| 53 | I used to smile at the people who stopped me in the street , not knowing what they wanted at first , until I discovered that there were actually beggars in London . |
| 54 | That is the basis of the famous " niche " strategy which means that you secure for yourself a useful market by doing something which the big boys find uneconomical to do at the price you can manage . |
| 55 | We all imagined he had some secret new money-spinning idea and soon we 'd all be amazed at what he 'd done to the place , and coming here to marvel at the crowds he 'd managed to attract … but I do n't think he was ever looking for a site for some viable business venture ; I think he was just looking for somewhere suited to his burned-out , fed-up , pissed-off mood . |
| 56 | Yet it took ten years for the pope to arrive at the point he had desired in 1199 , where he could treat the parties as equals , the one and the other , alterum et alterum as he says , and make his decision in Rome . |
| 57 | The articles of association say that the value will be fixed by the company 's auditors acting as experts and not as arbitrators , and there is no other way to arrive at the figure which follows the requirements of the constitution of the company . |
| 58 | When he and my mother came to live at the house he bought five Aylesbury ducks to swim on the pond and clear it of weed . |
| 59 | Bartman , who has not been allowed to live at the house he has shared in Chelsea with his partner of 23 years , David Cohen , as a condition of bail , will now be able to return home . |
| 60 | It is essential for an investor to decide at the outset what it expects to obtain from the due diligence exercise . |