Example sentences of "at the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gives managers an opportunity to evaluate where they are in the quality process , to look at the Eight things To Do and to adjust their direction if necessary . |
| 2 | He 's no match for you , and I wo n't have him abused for being so good at the one thing he does well . |
| 3 | In this situation , it is often useful to look back at the good things you have achieved and the good times you 've enjoyed in the past . |
| 4 | The two girls totter to the lavatory door , laughing at the funniest thing they 've seen since Grandma sat on her chihuahua . |
| 5 | For one thing he was an impatient sort of eagle , inclined to get angry and feel insulted at the smallest thing ; for another — and this took Creggan a while to realize — he was preoccupied with thinking about what had happened to Minch , not daring to hope that what Creggan had so boldly said about her coming back was true . |
| 6 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 7 | As we have seen , the entity-relationship approach looks at the major things of interest first . |
| 8 | I need to look at the real thing . ’ |
| 9 | at the real thing . |
| 10 | Of course , it had n't so far done anything of the kind , and he had to arrive at the best thing to do in the circumstances . |
| 11 | On that frozen trackway , however , I just stared at the grotesque thing lying in the snow ; the hand seemed to be thrusting up through the earth as if some ghoul was struggling to rise from its grave . |
| 12 | The delivery because it gave me what I had to think about when I was up there language body language and then the playbacks I could look at the two things that Mike just highlighted as one and two . |
| 13 | He looked at the other things on Philip 's wall , the pictures from the nature calendar , the photograph of Uncle Walter 's brother , his Uncle John with his platoon in the War . |
| 14 | I mean one day , I mean I was in a customer care meeting for three hours on Monday , so obviously I lost some there , but you know , that particular day I was on a , just on the phone personally on my B M S for just over three hours , and just looking at the other things that I had to deal with . |
| 15 | Let's go to the end of the garden and look at the ghastly thing that Martin flogged us . " |
| 16 | Or , at least , they are misleading , directing attention at the wrong things . |
| 17 | They laughed at the same things . |
| 18 | But from when she had been sixteen and had left the Dame School and stepped right into the home life above the shop , it had been borne into her that marriage was a humdrum affair : two people lived together , apparently happy , yet went their own ways , as shown by her parents ; they did n't think alike , yet they did n't argue ; they never laughed at the same things , nor did local or national events affect them in the same way . |
| 19 | In 1946 in Milan , Werner met a young woman who was looking at the same things as he was . |
| 20 | They looked at the same things together as they walked through the ruins of Milan . |
| 21 | The eagle stared back at him proudly and without fear and Mr Wolski wondered how long he would be here in captivity , staring out at the same things year after year , his great wings never feeling the power and support of the wind , his talons never arcing forward and down as they did what they had been made for and struck at prey . |
| 22 | He listened to what she said and they laughed at the same things . |
| 23 | So contrasting is it that one may wonder whether its adherents are looking at the same thing at all : ‘ As the eighties unfold , humanity faces a worldwide shortage of productive cropland , acute land hunger in many countries , escalating prices for farmland almost everywhere … ’ |
| 24 | For example , if the adult holds an object , such as a doll , in the child 's line of gaze , the child is likely to look at the object and then immediately glance at the adult 's face to check that they are looking at the same thing . |
| 25 | To believe the gospel , respond to Jesus or receive the Spirit are three ways of looking at the same thing ( 2 Cor. 11:4 ) . |
| 26 | Individuals ' evaluations of how good they are at something are generally made in relation to how good others are at the same thing . |
| 27 | perhaps we have to look at the societal thing in that there 's something very macho seen as macho about football in Scotland which is stand on the terraces with a short sleeve shirt in zero degrees and having someone urinate down your leg and |
| 28 | I do n't suppose old Pope Leo the Tenth sat around gazing at the latest thing he 'd just commissioned from Michelangelo , for instance . |
| 29 | OK , the test is artificial , but it 's a good way to have a look at the main things an integrated package should do , and it answers some of the questions you should ask before you buy . |
| 30 | Look at the whole thing and if they want to take out we should offer to help them |