Example sentences of "to [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think that was an attitude to that was erm unique to nursing at the time or do you think erm that possibly girls in other walks of life had the same kind of experience of discipline and demands on them ? |
| 2 | Alex James in the 1930s had not been averse to appearing at the odd night-club , but Best 's moves were tracked by a posse of desperate journalists as he went from bed to boutique , from discothèque to dressing-room . |
| 3 | Coming on the heels of last week 's selling — some would call it over-selling — the endorsement provided a welcome boost to trading at the start of the new three-week account . |
| 4 | In many cases , these are the earliest references to trading at the places concerned ; and in some , the record has been made precisely because the king is granting the right to run a market . |
| 5 | Thus in He can sing the incidence of " sing " to " he " exists as a potential in the present : the person referred to possesses at the present moment the capacity of realizing this action . |
| 6 | They probably stayed that night at Watchet , and there , tradition records , the first lines of ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ were committed to writing at the Bell Inn , within sight of the ships in Watchet 's decaying harbour . |
| 7 | Lyric Fantasy is poised to return to sprinting at the weekend and has an excellent opportunity to break her duck as a three-year-old . |
| 8 | Furthermore , the lawyer can only respond to knowledge that has already been established ; he has little scientific imagination , especially when it comes to pushing at the frontiers of advancing aerodynamics or similar matters . |
| 9 | To isolate one stage , i.e. , the catalogue consultation , without reference to searching at the shelves can mislead and confuse the means with the end . |
| 10 | There was also a form of opposition to perestroika that stemmed from outdated patterns of thinking and the self-interest of those who had become used to living at the expense of others . |
| 11 | Old Red returned to frowning at the floor . |
| 12 | And then my parents had a big er lean- to built at the side of the house and we had a full size billiard table in there . |
| 13 | In addition to looking at the causes which make people flee from their countries , the Vatican also asks countries to be sensitive to the plight of the refugees . |
| 14 | I went back to looking at the screen . |
| 15 | So can we now move in the formal sense to looking at the next issue for discussion , which covers policy H two , the Greater York new settlement , and the first part of the issue which we shall address is , does the proposed Greater York new settlement represent an appropriate and justified policy response to the assessed development land requirements of the Greater York area , and I 'll ask Mr Davis to make his introductory statement . |
| 16 | I drank my coffee and listened while you talked about the Government 's commitment to looking at the quality of life you should be working towards for our people ( or that we should be working towards for your people — I am not quite sure whether your use of the words ‘ we ’ and ‘ our ’ included me or not ) ; but before I could raise the questions that remained in my mind from the night before — let alone my new uncertainty as to what exactly was meant by the expression ‘ the quality of life ’ — a young man had come in and murmured something to you about ‘ the Governor ’ and ‘ the Bank ’ . |
| 17 | Going back to seeing to looking at the erm goods shed . |
| 18 | they saw our house Friday , and they rang me up , and I said look , you know , I 've got , I 've got my exams today and I really do n't want to come up unless you see something , if you do , I will come up because they reckon it 's a joint effort , if we 're gon na live together , we 've all got to see it and make a contribution to looking at the house . |
| 19 | There 's a technique in nuclear physics , called neutron activation , which allows you to measure quantities of trace very small quantities of particular elements in materials and it 's been applied to looking at the concentration of arsenic in Napoleon 's hair , and you find that there are particular periods in his life when he got dosed with arsenic_ one 's not quite sure how — and at those particular times he was erm very ill ; it correlates very well with the historical evidence . |
| 20 | then it may be appropriate for it to progress to operating at the skilful stage . |
| 21 | But Galtung concludes that the main problem is that the target of loyalty , which is the family , is ill-adapted to operating at the level on which new institutions will emerge . |
| 22 | In the last month before war was declared , families who were still on the waiting list for places on the Kindertransporte , but knew they had little chance of moving up the queue , took to waiting at the main rail stations , watching and hoping . |
| 23 | At such moments , we at Public NME do not , like you , resort to languishing at the back of seedy gigs , grumbling into our flimsily-iced shorts about the dismal lack of ligs in our lives . |
| 24 | So in the end he took to pointing at the last and most precious of " the possessions " … tiger-skins , bookcases full of elevating and instructional volumes , embroidered samplers , teasets of bone china , humidors and candlesticks , mounted elephants ' feet , and rowing-oars with names of college eights inscribed in gilt paint ; the ladies were instructed to improvise sandbags out of linen sheets and pillowslips and fine lace tablecloths . |
| 25 | South Korea has committed $5 billion over ten years to investing in new technologies , Ward reminded his audience , and Singapore and Taiwan attach the same importance to staying at the cutting edge . |
| 26 | With regard to charging at the door , again fear must play part in her behaviour . |
| 27 | In fact , the chemistry on the earth is rather special — it 's the sort of chemistry we 're used to doing at the temperature on the earth in the conditions that occur on the earth , but interspatial space the conditions are quite different and so , in fact , it turns out the chemistry is different , and so also we find that there are molecules that we do n't expect . |
| 28 | Whatever the interpretation , the cumulative research and survey data since 1978 suggests an urgent need to took at the justifications , dynamics and effectiveness of grouping . |
| 29 | But the stakes are so much higher than the mere semantics of the laws relating to lifting at the lineout . |
| 30 | When one person has in their mind the whole range of the project from initial conception through data analysis and system design to sitting at the computer and typing the program lines into the computer , it 's not only more efficient : the person is creating in freedom like an artist and is involved in the act of creation at a deeper level and as a result enjoys the whole thing . |