Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony Brough ( the Principal ) and I sat at High Table , but it was very democratic because the students also took it in turns to sit at High Table — and to be invited to the Principal 's office for pre-dinner drinks ! |
| 2 | One only has to look at the diminishing casts in productions all over the country . |
| 3 | One only has to look at the woodcuts of Henri II 's entry into Rouen in 1550 — which Mary very probably witnessed — to get a breath-taking impression of the splendour of royal pageantry , with the king himself riding on a chariot of immense size and grandeur , accompanied by heavily caparisoned elephants . |
| 4 | To see how destructive such an inflation can be , one only has to look at the hyperinflation which occurred in Germany in 1922–23 . |
| 5 | One only has to look at the achievements of David Gower , Monica Seles , John McEnroe and Jimmy White , to mention just a few , to realise that left-handers can excel at their chosen sport . |
| 6 | One only has to look at the statistics to see how unrepresentative Xuxa 's world is . |
| 7 | One only has to look at the halving of the value of the youth training allowance and the way in which young people between the ages of 16 and 18 can no longer claim benefit , including housing benefit . |
| 8 | One only has to look at the Shropshire structure plan in which I was involved last year , and the Department of the Environment in that case had allowed the facility for new settlement without locational criteria . |
| 9 | One only has to look at who they were playing — a team that has only won one of their first 9 games and now have only 7 points from their first 10 . |
| 10 | The reader only has to glance at a good modern textbook of infant development ( say , Bremner 's Infancy ) to get the main message : very young humans are prodigiously skilled at picking up geometric and social information , and this can be seen both informally ( a neonate turning to a voice ) and in the laboratory . |
| 11 | Cell sap normally starts to freeze at about -3°C , and ice forming within the cells causes fatal damage to plant tissues . |
| 12 | B : There 's a yellow VW outside Sue 's house Here B 's contribution , taken literally , fails to answer A's question , and thus seems to violate at least the maxims of Quantity and Relevance . |
| 13 | Letting Swindon , Stoke and Honved score goals past them quite easily seems to point at a suspect defence . |
| 14 | DRTF1/E2F thus appears to contain at least two sequence-specific DNA-binding proteins . |
| 15 | DEUCHE 5 ( BATMAN ) FINALLY COMES TO REST AT GAO . |
| 16 | It usually starts to improve at ten weeks and clears up completely by the 14th week . |
| 17 | Bill the dog always seems to walk at least twice as far as I do , running ahead for a while and coming back to check that I 'm following before he dives down a hole after rabbits that he never catches . |
| 18 | The London Road End always seems to have at least one organizer , and usually two . |
| 19 | NIREX still hopes to dispose at sea of the massive quantities of contaminate rubble and components that will be produced when Britain 's first nuclear power stations are demolished . |
| 20 | Cynthia also wants to look at T F E adult , C S F , erm and see how they 're distributed . |
| 21 | Recruitment clearly has to continue at a high level so as to maintain C&P 's scientific excellence [ and relevance ! ] . |
| 22 | It also begins to look at some of the processes which together make up these overall trends . |
| 23 | ‘ One really wants to look at integrating photography into the wider art world in order that one is not exclusive in any way . ’ |
| 24 | Yeah I think we need t I I think one really needs to look at this . |
| 25 | A scolded cat often turns its back on its owners and haughtily refuses to look at them . |
| 26 | A theory of standardization must be able to account for such songs ; and Adorno 's approach surely begins to crack at this point . |
| 27 | It then continues to squint at the water , weaving slightly with endearing cross-eyed concentration . |
| 28 | If the constant clock frequency is set too high the motor is unable to accelerate the load inertia to the corresponding stepping rate and the system either fails to operate at all or loses steps at the start of its travel . |
| 29 | The economy embarks on a rather sluggish crawl up the new LM curve until it eventually comes to rest at point C where there is a new , higher equilibrium level of income , Y 2 |
| 30 | They go on again and again and so Carson never has to sit at their feet . |