Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] at [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If not I 'll remain immobilized at my place , tied hand and foot … and in whose interest would that be ? |
| 2 | Maria did n't need to look at his face or see the confident way he carried himself as he stepped out of the lift with her . |
| 3 | Now you 'll want to look at your watch a hundred times a day . |
| 4 | How many hours a week did you use to work at your job ? |
| 5 | Talbot could n't even begin to guess at his nationality except that he was n't Greek . |
| 6 | However , there is also the possibility that you do not like looking at your photo because it reminds you of a weight problem that you do not want to face . |
| 7 | Well these ex-patriots , I 'd like to look at their situation a little bit more carefully . |
| 8 | I 'd like to look at her background . |
| 9 | And when he passed me I did not like to look at his face because it was dark like the shadows of the hill , and when he reached the door he laughed and I did not like to hear him laugh , and when he reached the yard he stopped because Beuno was there and he said to him , ‘ She 'll be all right now . |
| 10 | Why do you keep hacking at your hair ? ’ |
| 11 | She might have guessed at his answer . |
| 12 | They should have placed at their disposal Inigo Jones 's original designs for Whitehall Palace , ‘ which are of acknowledged beauty ’ . |
| 13 | The Lloyds believe the valuers must have looked at their address , Haileywood Farm and mistaken it for Haileywood House next door , a mansion owned by Ian Paice , the drummer with the rock group , Deep Purple . |
| 14 | Yet Siward , too , must have looked at his son Osbern sometimes and seen nothing but another man to sit in his chair . ’ |
| 15 | She could have laughed at her husband 's struggle to hide a strange mixture of emotions . |
| 16 | If Kate had n't had so much on her mind she would have laughed at her mother 's scandalised voice . |
| 17 | He could have bitten at his tongue . |
| 18 | Like good historians we should try to look at their world through their eyes . |
| 19 | You do n't even have to look at her face , you just have to look at her neck . |
| 20 | When this is translated into personal terms , it means among other things that at some point in his or her career a teacher will have to look at its pattern and will have to pay attention to changes which ought to be made in his or her work-role . |
| 21 | It is an irony that underlying this kind of dispersal policy , which can of course be criticised , is a reliance on the old skills that the private librarians would have had at their finger tips . |
| 22 | How much more money might he have had at his disposal ? |
| 23 | Looking at the primitive clubs and golf balls which Morris would have had at his disposal in those days , it was engaging to speculate on how , with this equipment , he would have handled Portrush in an awkward easterly wind . |
| 24 | A garden designer who does n't wish to look at her garden is of no use to me . |
| 25 | it would have been a matter that I may have raised at our board meeting , again , again , that would have been passed on |
| 26 | With every step I saw him take Flew at his heel a puff of flake . |
| 27 | It should have arrived at your parish by now , so perhaps you could ask your parish priest for a copy . |
| 28 | Why do you have to shout at your dog ? |
| 29 | You may wish to get at your opponent in some way and think that this strategy will further your personal or general bargaining aims . |
| 30 | We should also try to eat at their pace , not ours , and not allow them to feel that they are holding us up . |