Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Now a Middlesbrough Council working party has been set up to look at the problem . |
| 32 | In addition to the Education and Training Working Party mentioned above , a working party ( Chairman : QC ) has been set up to look at the way ahead . |
| 33 | But such was the power of those two softly spoken words that Ronni found her head jerking up to look at the speaker , barely aware of her brother 's muttered response as he hoisted her cases up on to the jetty . |
| 34 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 35 | These issues were being raised in the deliberations of a SCOTVEC review group which included representatives of SED , SEB and SCCC and which had been set up to look at the acceptability of non-vocational modules in National Certificate . |
| 36 | Outside , in the rain , it turned what had once been its head up to look at the storm . |
| 37 | NORTHERN Ireland will be represented on a committee set up to look at the handling of complaints from National Health Service patients and their families . |
| 38 | The ever increasing army of tourists who came up to look at the scenery was growing . |
| 39 | According the Wellcome the study was set up to look at the effect of acyclovir against cytomegalovirus , a type of herpes virus , and was stopped after no difference was found in frequency of CMV disease between patients taking acyclovir and those taking a placebo . |
| 40 | In January 1989 , the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities convened a meeting of a group set up to look at the effect of these centres on authority centres . |
| 41 | She tells him about the street she was brought up in , its granular asphalt pavement ridged with long wavering bulges where they had been dug up to get at the gas and water mains , and overhung by waterfalls of laburnum , with front gardens marked off by low walls , some of them in crenellated brickwork , some in pebble-dash with decorative chains dipping above them that you could set swinging , one after another , as you walked by . |
| 42 | And er when you get up to speak at the conference , you have to give your name and the reason why you 're there . |
| 43 | After a distinguished student career at Emmanuel College , Cambridge , he went on to study at the University of Paris under Suzanne Bastid . |
| 44 | His mother trekked North to the St Mary 's Anglican Mission station , where he received his education before going on to study at the Rorke 's Drift Art and Craft Centre in Natal . |
| 45 | I squeezed my way out to find at the foot of the cathedral steps the white helmets of a military band celebrating Easter state-style , surrounded by the boy soldiers of Peru in grey , black and khaki , armed with machine-guns . |
| 46 | Still looking doubtful , she went off to fill the order , and when Ellie had eaten it all , down to the very last scrap , and had two cups of coffee , she came back to stand at the table , full of admiration and amazement . |
| 47 | Cranston stood up and linked his arm through Athelstan 's as they went out to stand at the door whilst the ostler saddled their horses . |
| 48 | It seemed an ordinary enough night when Anne Simonsen set out to work at the Marina Hotel in Copenhagen where she had a job as part-time barmaid . |
| 49 | I had become more and more interested in the business world , going back to work at the bank in Newcastle during my vacations , so I was looking for a general business career . ’ |
| 50 | I drank to the Conon Corbetts , glad , as st Augustine wrote , that ‘ men go out to wonder at the Mountain Heights . ’ |
| 51 | The rain having petered out for a while , we all went out to stare at the sunset , about which the two poets made lurid remarks . |
| 52 | Willie turned back to look at the comics so that he missed the surprised expression on his face . |
| 53 | Turning back to look at the door , he could see no manual locking mechanism — only a circular brass inset that seemed to need a special key . |
| 54 | At the end of the day it is good to be able to think that as you step back to look at the work — especially if you remember to get down from the ladder first . |
| 55 | He showed her the caving ones first , and then they paused for supper before going back to look at the ones of his son . |
| 56 | Cardiff spun back to look at the windows to see if that bizarre shifting and swirling of shadows was somehow caused by a lightning flash through the glass panes . |
| 57 | He spent ten minutes attaching markers to the map , then sat back to look at the result . |
| 58 | He ate a dish of cornflakes while wandering around the kitchen and then went out to look at the Triumph , still parked in front of the house . |
| 59 | A wedge of frosty light clove a farmyard as someone stepped out to look at the stars in the russet sky . |
| 60 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |