Example sentences of "without [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plants which float on the surface with or without rooting at the bottom |
| 2 | The two went noisily to the bus-stop , leaving Alice on the doorstep , stunned , and staring without seeing at the letter she had written to her mother , thrust into her hand by Monica . |
| 3 | In the morning in Jacksonville , I shaved and dressed , listening to the television without looking at the pictures . |
| 4 | He walked down the hill without looking at the dead men , slowly and with difficulty and pain . |
| 5 | Mary was still standing by the bed when her mother came into the room and , without looking at the bed , walked over to where grandfather kept his emergency money , usually about £1,000 . |
| 6 | The modern trend in medicine — like the ancient biblical view — is to see human beings as whole people , recognizing that it is bad practice to treat separate parts of a person without looking at the total man or woman . |
| 7 | Nellie was very good and a natural musician who could play without looking at the piano which meant she could watch the dancing at the same time . |
| 8 | He walks out of the shrine without looking at the crowd , picks up one of the lambs , frightened and bleating , and carries its almost weightless body round to the side of the shrine . |
| 9 | They are then invited to try and throw them in a basket one at a time without looking at the value . |
| 10 | But after a while he soon knew large chunks of the play off by heart and could occasionally prompt without looking at the book . |
| 11 | He said this without looking at the Substitute , though he would have liked to see his reaction . |
| 12 | But I do n't just go in one shop , and I never buy anything without looking at the price . |
| 13 | Although in Burmah Oil there was a reluctance to accept the " class " arguments without looking at the actual contents of the documents in question , subsequent cases have accepted class arguments without question . |
| 14 | leap in without looking at the detail of it , I think now the function heads namely you , |
| 15 | ‘ No more than usual in a prison this size , ’ the Governor answered without looking at the other man . |
| 16 | Student B translates it back into L1 without looking at the original . |
| 17 | My other concern is that no strategy can be competent without looking at the urban fringe — the countryside around the City , and by the nature of the Green Belt this includes land in Midlothian and East Lothian . |
| 18 | what about doing it without looking at the book ? |
| 19 | Without looking at the book . |
| 20 | You 've got ta get on without looking at the book , Grant . |
| 21 | He banged down the rucksack and the basket he had been carrying and looked without liking at the unencumbered Beuno . |
| 22 | They 're as unique as it is possible to be without splitting at the seams . |
| 23 | We considered that he ought to have taken these points during the hearing itself and , in so far as they were of a technical procedural nature , he had waived his right to advance them because he was content to allow the full two-day hearing to take place without complaining at the outset that he had been prejudiced by short notice of the hearing or by any procedural irregularity in the way the preliminary issue had been brought before the court . |
| 24 | I was moved to see that she had absolute faith in my goodwill , for she took the bag without glancing at the contents . |
| 25 | Without glancing at the two men , he drove out of the warehouse , through the metal gates and back on to the street . |
| 26 | As Cotte points out , allow and let evoke permission in different ways : the latter seems incapable of evoking the giving of permission without evoking at the same time the realization of the action permitted ( cf. ( 216b ) ) , whereas allow is not subject to this restriction . |
| 27 | When you feel worthless , useless — and do things often without knowing at the time why you have . |