Example sentences of "you [vb base] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You borrow at a fixed rate of interest and repay the loan over a number of years . |
| 2 | When you look at a complex sponge skeleton such as that made of silica spicules which is known as Venus ' Flower Basket , the imagination is baffled . |
| 3 | The next method that is used is a method which again is familiar to people on the earth — surveyors use it all the time — and that 's what we call triangulation , and the idea there is that if you look at a distant object against an even more distant background , then the apparent direction will depend on where you 're standing , and if you move from one end to the other of a baseline , then a distant steeple , for example , will appear to move against the hills on the horizon . |
| 4 | If you look at a small child 's eyes , they are always looking in the direction in which they are moving . |
| 5 | But if you look at a modern group like those Fishbone fellas , hell they 're really into my Funkadelic stuff : ‘ Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow ’ ! |
| 6 | If you look at a full page when they happen , they do n't happen all that often on a schools portfolio which costs two thousand two hundred pounds , you 'll see there 's there 's already three different prices |
| 7 | Wittgenstein says ( 332 ) : ‘ Do not believe that you have the concept of colour within you because you look at a coloured object — however you look ’ and ( 659 ) ‘ But when I say ‘ It tastes exactly like sugar ’ , in an important sense no remembering takes place . |
| 8 | If you look at a new-born gorilla or chimpanzee they seem skinny little things compared with human babies . |
| 9 | You look at a so-called adult world , ’ she said , ‘ and people just behave ridiculously . |
| 10 | We 've all seen it when you arrive at a new prison . |
| 11 | As long as you go at a slow , steady pace , the job can be done and you none the wiser . |
| 12 | Stay at the Residence Orchidea and you stay at a friendly family-run complex of apartments in a quiet , residential area of Diano Marina . |
| 13 | The easiest way to find the wide range of cover you need at a competitive price is with a policy which packages together a number of covers and is specially designed for a certain group such as self-employed tradesmen . |