Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patterson ( 1986 ) has recently started to look at the contribution siblings make to the development of aggressive behaviour . |
| 2 | It will not come from Government spending , because the Government will have to borrow massively to keep going at the present mean levels of public spending . |
| 3 | Actually , I missed some good ones in the couple of days ' holiday I took ; if I 'd just bothered to look at a single fucking news-stand after I left Stromeferry I 'd have seen this story starting to break about this guy — ‘ The Red panther ’ the tabloids decided on eventually — murdering these right-leaning pillars of the community . |
| 4 | I 'd also stopped looking at the sculpture . |
| 5 | Bivalves seem generally to have evolved at a slow canter rather than a brisk gallop ( see ammonites pp. 73–6 ) and some living bivalves have a very long ancestry ; the small sized genus ( Nucula ) has relatives in Ordovician rocks not very different from Recent species . |
| 6 | It was two hours before he felt sufficiently recovered to stop at a phone box and report in . |
| 7 | Racism just boils down to ruling-class propaganda ; you 've only got to look at the popular Tory press , churning it out day after day , all owned and controlled by capitalists who 've got a direct interest in setting white workers against black and undermining the unity of the working class . |
| 8 | You 've only got to look at the history of religion , especially Christianity , to see that at as the guys who went round flagellating themselves also went around killing other people if they did n't believe in the right religion and that unfortunately er happens all too often . |
| 9 | You 've only got to look at the table . |
| 10 | Portugal had only agreed to participate at the last minute , reportedly fearing that the summit would otherwise be geared to increasing the influence of Spain in the region . |
| 11 | If the Minister wants to retain this unitary Parliament , he had better start looking at the ways in which he can secure the rights of the people affected . |
| 12 | Signs of the tenacious Selina ambition had already begun to show at the age of 13 when she secured her first job on the Darlington and Stockton Times . |
| 13 | She was going to offer him an armchair to sit in but he had already decided to settle at the pinewood table . |
| 14 | In Sarajevo , UN planes had already started landing at the airport before the formal announcement by the Bosnian capital that it would accept the aid , ending a protest mounted because UN relief was not getting through to 100,000 Muslims cut off by Serbs in eastern Bosnia . |
| 15 | She had just emerged to frown at the Manport , wearing a plain dark coverall that made no concession to dressing up for important company . |
| 16 | The second element was that I had just started working at the London School of Economics in October 1970 , which was exactly the same time as GLF started meeting there and LSE was in one of its periods of turmoil which involved me as someone working on the staff and excited me politically . |
| 17 | A group of people had just finished haytiming at a farm called Pikestone , in Holwick , and began to cross the swing bridge across the Tees . |
| 18 | The snow in June was a revelation which seemed to astonish and dismay some girls in bikini-tops with a cold-box full of beer and a shoulder bag full of Jackie Collins novels , who had clearly hoped to picnic at the top . |
| 19 | On July 3 Doe had reportedly agreed to resign at the request of a deputation of his remaining allies , including Vice-President Harry Moniba and Samuel Hill , the Speaker of the House of Representatives ( parliament ) , on condition that his own safety and that of the Khran people was assured . |
| 20 | The city technology colleges , outside local authority control , have also failed to develop at the speed the government hoped for . |
| 21 | My nails have recently started to flake at the ends . |
| 22 | The Directorate have therefore decided to look at the whole of our service provision on a TEAM basis . |