Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 Oh I know , you only got to look at the VAT ai n't you for starters
2 ‘ You only had to look at the faces sitting around the table at base camp to know that they were physically and mentally finished . ’
3 They only had to look at the floor of her cockpit to prove that .
4 Marcus did n't care what Wilson said , you only had to look at the guy .
5 Suddenly , people were suggesting charity records for every tragedy that occurred , and while money was raised for worthwhile causes , such as the survivors of the Bradford City fire or the sunken Herald Of Free Enterprise ferry , one only had to look at the ropier ideas for fund-raising to question the motives involved .
6 Her skin seemed to glow , and she discovered she only had to smile at the male members of the staff and they were immediately more friendly .
7 They only had to wince at the racket for 20 minutes or so .
8 Despite intensive pressure to resign in the aftermath of the serious rioting of late April and early May — itself a product of the acquittal of those officers accused of assaulting King — and police failings which the unrest revealed [ see pp. 38856 ; 38894 ] , King continued to prevaricate until June 8 when he finally agreed to go at the end of the month .
9 The population of the town soon began to expand at a phenomenal rate .
10 ( ‘ The first assistant director , ’ he says when I query his qualifications for the role , ‘ just had to shout at the second assistant director . ’ )
11 I just wanted to look at the Earth .
12 Boys 14 and 15 once tried to sit at the back of the coach but were rapidly sent to the front where , it was said , ‘ they always sat ’ .
13 They lasted all too shortly — maybe a fortnight or so — before they needed to be recharged , and they always seemed to fade at a crucial time , in the middle of your favourite programme .
14 Consolidation would be little help if one still had to look at the old repealed Acts in order to interpret the new one .
15 He also planned to entertain at the Priory his neighbours and friends , and here it was possible that he received fresh warnings of danger , as on finishing his dinner he hurriedly set off for Halling and was scarcely clear of the city when a riot broke out and the mob tried to pillage the Priory .
16 Whatever the questions he really wanted to ask at the reprocessing plant , though , he would never allow his personal feelings to interfere with an assignment .
17 Having cleared the field of Vulgrin 's troops Richard now intended to strike at the Taillefer castles , presumably accepting the fact that this would drive Vulgrin 's father , Count William , to take his son 's part .
18 The committee then adjourned to meet at the Blenheim coffee house , New Bond Street , on 1 2 January 1 79 1 .
19 Beryl chatted with one or two of the bystanders then lingered to look at the cards on the wreaths and this annoyed Francis .
20 The glass moved more smoothly , more quickly , then came to rest at the figure zero .
21 McIllvanney said angrily , then turned to look at the yard where a silver-grey stretch limo , its windows tinted black against the sun , rolled ponderously to park beside the stairs to his office .
22 She stretched with remembered delight , then turned to look at the man lying so quietly next to her .
23 We called at Penndon museum which was closed , but looks good , and then went to look at the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway which has plenty of rolling stock .
24 I once specially asked for him to be there and then demanded to know at the rehearsal who was this man sitting with the flutes .
25 I almost learned to ski at the cost of a torn jacket and a twisted elbow .
26 He never ceased to wonder at the irony of expecting miracles from a reliquary in which her bones had once lain for only three days and nights , before being returned reverently to her native Welsh earth ; and even more to be wondered at , the infinite mercy that had transmitted grace through all those miles between , forgiven the presence of a sorry human sinner in the coffin she had quitted , and let the radiance of miracle remain invisibly about her altar , unpredictable , accessible , a shade wanton in where it gave and where it denied , as the stuff of miracles is liable to be , at least to the human view .
27 Morag and Mary were two such women and we never ceased to wonder at the amount of work they got through in a day .
28 Owen never ceased to marvel at the way in which he combined incredible ingenuity within the rules with total lack of curiosity as to what went on beyond them .
29 She half turned to look at the figure beside her and this proved a near fatal mistake .
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