Example sentences of "[vb infin] at the [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we want local communities to do is to get together and look at the situation on the ground , that is to say the council , the police , the magistrates , the brewers , people who run fast food shops , the planners . |
| 2 | The point is , you see , that I did not ask you to go and look at the time on that clock ; I merely asked you to study the numerals on it . |
| 3 | Most of all , he must not look at the food on his plate . |
| 4 | Johnny had moved to the far end of the room and she could no longer see him , but she could guess at the expression on his face . |
| 5 | The two leaders will meet at the gate on Saturday . |
| 6 | The plan was that everyone would meet at the cottage on Boxing Day , making their own way there and hopefully bringing enormous amounts of expensive food and drink if they did n't want to be turned back at the gate . |
| 7 | Of course the sceptics and the doubters will sneer at the influence on the affair exercised by Dicky saying that the former route was unsuitable and geographically unstable , and they will point out that such conditions have been overcome in other parts , for example , the West Highland , the Liverpool and Manchester and the Settle and Carlisle , but then those conversant with Dicky o' Tunstead will continue to believe that it is his malign influence which kept the rails away from Tunstead Farm . |
| 8 | He would have Christmas Day off and he would surely call at the vicarage on some pretext or other . |
| 9 | Four ‘ destiny marches ’ from Iona , Arbroath , Whithorn and Berwick would arrive at the vigil on that date . |
| 10 | The conductor would then leap down and tug at the wire on top of the cabinet . |