Example sentences of "[vb infin] at [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you really imagine I 'd bellow at Finn in the street ? ’ she enquired . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't scoff at matters of the spirit , ’ she said as she threaded her needle with gold to start embroidering the unicorn 's eye . |
| 3 | Nothing else would change , though , the north geographic pole would n't move , and if we were to go outside to check up , the sun would still rise and set in the same place , and the Pole Star would appear at night over the local gas works . |
| 4 | It will appear at venues around the country for at least three years . |
| 5 | But do n't let anyone get away with telling you that IBM 's problems are all the fault of the world economy : if Hewlett-Packard Co can grow at 20% in the current climate , if ICL Plc can remain in the black , if that former corporate basket case Unisys Corp , which compared with IBM started out under its present management with no advantages at all , can return to profit , IBM 's woes have to be acknowledged to be primarily the fault of the company itself , and only exacerbated by the economy . |
| 6 | Nor will they grow at depths beyond the reach of sunlight for they are dependent upon single-celled algae that grow within their bodies . |
| 7 | Does it rankle and jar or do we feel at home with the sound ? |
| 8 | GARTH Gibbs says Gazza will feel at home among the spaghetti scoffers in Italy . |
| 9 | He will never feel at ease with the French : he will never wear the right clothes ; he will never feel healthy on goose and red wine and he no longer wants to try . |
| 10 | The layout and organisation of the classroom should enable the visually handicapped pupil to develop a facility to understand and use the equipment and material in it ‘ so that he can feel at ease in the setting , and can respond freely and accurately about what he is doing ’ . |
| 11 | You can choose at leisure from the free monthly colour magazines and the books are delivered direct to your home . |
| 12 | Stirling envisaged a much larger force of raiders with a permanent base deep in the desert , supplied by air , which could descend at will on the coastal lifeline of the Axis forces . |
| 13 | And I think what Paul wants to spend that on is bringing erm in some external consultant to actually look at models for the future , how to develop our current partnership model |
| 14 | In the transcendent world , there are new laws and men must discard their habitual ideas of what is right and what is wrong ; in fact to see the utmost beauty we must look at things with the eyes of a child . |
| 15 | Wales rugby is supposed to be resurgent , so they had better look at things off the pitch as well as on it . ’ |
| 16 | Assessment , however , would be carried out by an external assessor who would look at testimonies from the line manager and company director , and a portfolio of documentary evidence and reports . |
| 17 | we can look at involvement with the organizations . |
| 18 | While explanations at the molecular level are the aim , much of this book will still look at embryos at the cellular level , reflecting the current state of knowledge . |
| 19 | Right , we 're gon na look at correlation over the next couple of weeks . |
| 20 | The official inquiry would look at PR for the Commons , reform of the Lords , European Parliament elections and regional assemblies . |
| 21 | The official inquiry would look at PR for the Commons , reform of the Lords , European Parliament elections and regional assemblies . |
| 22 | On the other hand , one can look at indicators of the success of these resources , at output measures of the health of citizens . |
| 23 | This chapter will therefore look at status in the landscape , since this hierarchy and the differences in status are so evident and mean so much in terms of why the landscape looks like it does . |
| 24 | They will look at partnerships in the North West such as Ravenhead Renaissance in St Helens , the Blackburn Partnership and East Manchester Partnership . |
| 25 | KEN Maginnis , the dapper , extrovert former schoolmaster and UDR major , may sound at times like the voice of moderate unionism . |
| 26 | Production will stop at Staythorpe at the end of March next year . |
| 27 | It was thought fit that the men should meet at Kendal on the 29th of July at night , where the leasors , or one of them , would attend them and on the next morning take them to visit the " said Myne " and examine its prospects . |
| 28 | After fifteen months Edward left St. Paul 's on the tacit understanding that he would read at home for the competitive administration examinations of the Civil Service . |
| 29 | The British Greens , for example , allow time for ‘ attunement ’ before their meetings start , reminiscent in its way of the reflective silence that can prevail at meetings of the Society of Friends . |
| 30 | Sometimes girls are there because they are very young or they are homeless , sometimes it is because their parents can not cope at home with the responsibility for them and a newborn baby , and in other cases a home takes in and assesses girls whose ability to look after their baby is in question . |