Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] at the " in BNC.

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1 Part 4 goes on to look at the training of parents in skills necessary for successful completion of these steps .
2 The supplement goes on to look at the law covering the conservation of protected buildings and areas , reporting on incentives like the Town Scheme grant , which can provide 40 per cent grants for repair and restoration work from combined funding between local authorities and English Heritage .
3 It then goes on to look at the costs of protectionism so they 're , they 're looking at erm , the numerical estimates as to how much erm , protectionism costs , not only for domestic producers and consumers and tax payers , but also for third countries .
4 Well , you would n't think so to look at the photographs , would you .
5 A small team of business experts have been gathered together to look at the ways new markets and business prospects can be fully exploited .
6 If you are not disciplined enough to arrive at the agency as though dressed for work you may not be taken on to the books .
7 Swam down to sniff at the trembling .
8 One has only to look at the new jobs created and investment .
9 One has only to look at the United States , where they take sex education very seriously but seem to have got everything wrong , with the most appalling results to the nation 's health .
10 To illustrate this one has only to look at the account of a pupil pursuit in a school which had thought through clearly its broad curriculum and made plans accordingly .
11 To see and support British effort , one has only to look at the Chelsea Show which starts on May 25 , where the National Farmers Union stand is so impressive with the huge pyramid of vegetables , fruit and flowers .
12 One has only to look at the regularity with which courses on modelling now appear on the MRS lists .
13 One has only to look at the economic forecasts .
14 One has only to look at the contradictions between the rich north and the starving south ; between capitalist industry 's ceaseless drive for higher productivity and the health of the biosphere ; those contradictions at the heart of the EC ( the ERM , the battles over farming and fishing , etc ) ; and the fierce struggle over world trade in GATT , which will soon break out again .
15 He bent down to stare at the floor .
16 After a while she came over to Tallis and bent down to peer at the human .
17 For example , in assigning an index to a word like ’ making ’ or ’ baking ’ , it may be possible to work backwards to arrive at the root ( ’ make ’ or ’ bake ’ ) by removing the ’ ing ’ ending and adding the letter ’ e ’ .
18 With a parting gift of prawns and fish from a friendly fisherman , we headed over to look at the islands of bum and Eigg on the way to Ardnamurchan .
19 I stopped momentarily to look at the old ‘ cenotaph ’ or what remained of it .
20 Then I wandered outside to look at the wreaths and the Salvation Army Captain touched me on the shoulder .
21 But she came to the kitchen when summoned to help , and she tried not to grumble at the repetitive nature of the work and the talk .
22 Luce made a sweeping gesture with one arm and tried not to wince at the pain .
23 She tried not to smile at the wording , and then she handed it back .
24 He tried not to look at the screens .
25 She tried not to look at the easy , mutual affection of Finn , Francie and the dumb woman .
26 Melanie had not been down to the work-room since her very first morning ; she tried not to look at the partially assembled puppets , hanged and dismembered , on the walls .
27 She tried not to look at the glass on the pink marble top of the wash-stand , empty , a sticky red stain at the bottom .
28 Then his weight lifted and she opened her dazed eyes , confused , as he moved away to sit at the edge of the bed .
29 Busacher snorted , drank , and wandered over to look at the long table which had been set up right down the centre of Willi 's big living room .
30 When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops .
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