Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 John 's wife Clare has to stand outside the stable on a crate with Milton 's tail over the top of the stable door and pull it from there , while John has him twitched at the front end .
2 Another of the veterans , Col Oleg Nechiporenko , a Latin American specialist , promises to shed new light on Lee Harvey Oswald , whom he says he met at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City two months before the assassination of President Kennedy .
3 It takes them back into the past and helps them relax at the same time .
4 How does one arrive at the required covariance then ?
5 Does the spider begin in the centre and move outwards down the spiral , or does it begin at the outside and work inwards ?
6 Because EXAFS enables us to look at the atomic environment of each alkali in turn we may begin to understand the structural basis of this curious effect .
7 This bids them to look at the common law ( i.e. the legal position ) before the Act , and the mischief that the statute was intended to remedy ; the Act is then to be construed in such a way as to suppress the mischief and advance the remedy .
8 Close inspection makes one marvel at the intricate perfection of nature opposed to the finest fashion houses .
9 In the first of his ‘ State of Grace ’ reports he looks at the current crises in the Kirk .
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