Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Havel , who has a genius for pinpointing the absurd , smiled gently and sipped at some mineral water . |
| 2 | ‘ You do encourage potential residents to call in and inspect at any time , do n't you ? ’ |
| 3 | She had gone in and looked at that picture and come running down the stairs crying , with her hands up to her face and the tears pouring . |
| 4 | An answer to this depends on a correct definition of human uniqueness rather than looking at those features Man shares with animals . ’ |
| 5 | I think his er the best thing to do would be simply to acknowledge at that stage , as Bill did , yeah that is an important area erm say yeah that 's something we can help you on , indeed it 's something many of my clients erm have found that Friends Provident is really very good at organizing , we 've got plans specifically designed for that but rather than look at that now , let's look at the overall picture |
| 6 | Rushing about the Rante , attached like Siamese twins by a synch-pulse cable , tripping over and swearing at each other , burying our heads for mysterious minutes in black film-changing bags , endlessly sticking our noses into other people 's business was a cause for considerable levity amongst the participants . |
| 7 | I went over and looked at some of the characters . |
| 8 | As the UN Security Council debated whether to intervene , most New Yorkers appeared to be knuckling down to what they do best : driving gratuitously badly and yelling at each other . |
| 9 | ( 4 ) A solicitor 's employee who would not otherwise qualify under sub-paragraph ( 1 ) ( b ) of this rule to manage an office and who was 50 years of age or more on and had at that date been continuously employed in connection with the practice of that solicitor for not less than 20 years shall , provided he or she exercised the duty of management at that date , be entitled to continue to do so until retiring or attaining the age of 70 years , whichever first happens . |
| 10 | Now that we have considered the type of information which the law deems as illegitimate for stock market trading , let us move on and look at some of the circumstances when trading on the basis of such information is illegal . |
| 11 | Naturally , the manager had more details to offer : the car hired had been a red Cavalier , Registration H 106 XMT ; it had been hired at 1.45 p.m. and returned at some time after the offices had closed at 6.30 p.m. , with the keys pushed through the special letter-box , as requested . |
| 12 | ‘ We need to consider it carefully and look at all aspects , ’ he added . |
| 13 | Starting at the airman 's feet he moved up and raved at each disaster until he came to his head . |
| 14 | Village Inn The new season is up and running at this venue with packed houses every Thursday night . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh do shut up and look at these maps with me . |
| 16 | It 's not only a working instrument but the kind of guitar that you feel like picking up and playing at any time ; when it 's not wowing the punters it will probably spend its time lying on the sofa permanently on call . |
| 17 | Cos they could have come up and looked at that . |
| 18 | Our first step must be to examine it thoroughly and look at all the recommendations made by the Select Committee . |
| 19 | Rain hung back and looked at some of the paintings on the wall near the door . |
| 20 | ‘ Right ! ’ said the Old Stager , leaning back and gazing at some passing clouds . |
| 21 | If I had been working properly and systematically I should have gone back and looked at this — ; and other receptors — in detail in IMHV . |
| 22 | It 'll be necessary for all of us to go back and look at those very very carefully and to think to what extent they address the kinds of problems that we can actually see developing , the kinds of things which we are fighting our way away from in the statutory services and yet might find that they are growing in an uncontrolled way in the development of the private sector . |
| 23 | The main problem then , inevitably when cutting at this distance from your eyes , is to make pruning cuts as clean and precise as when the secateurs are actually in your hand . |
| 24 | ‘ And I would ask you , Mr Stevens , to turn around and look at that Chinaman . ’ |
| 25 | If you get a firm that 's doing big removals , inside the cost of that is the cost of an estimator to go around and look at half the jobs he 's not going to get . |
| 26 | You can stand here and look at all these trees which come from all over the world , and we 're open all year round and there 's always something to see , and the views are spectacular . |
| 27 | Her passenger , let us say , observed that she braked suddenly to avoid some pigeons and then carefully negotiated some roadworks as well as stopping at several sets of traffic lights . |
| 28 | He was up and about and shouting at all and sundry . |
| 29 | Remember the fighting qualities of the Maccabeans ; think of the Warsaw ghetto and the amazing resistance therein of a few ordinary men and women who fought a whole battalion of Nazi storm-troopers , while Polish people stood by and wondered at such bravery . |
| 30 | And the night that it was over we met in our quarters , we poured a drink and we stood there and looked at each other and he said well , we made it . |