Example sentences of "we [verb] at an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the evening we ate at an Indian restaurant opposite the hotel . |
| 2 | We arrived at an other dam around noon ; water was rushing over the huge rocks and it was too risky to try to paddle across so the canoes were lined across . |
| 3 | We must consider that when we look at an alternative structure for the present arrangements for meat hygiene inspection . |
| 4 | We worked at an unheard-of pace . |
| 5 | I run one of the self-help groups that one of the ladies mentioned and we looked at an outsize catalogue recently and it went up to size twenty six and in some cases up to a size thirty and the ladies who modelled the clothes were no bigger than a twelve , possibly a fourteen , but a very shapely fourteen ! |
| 6 | An analogy might be the lip-reading that we do at an unconscious level . |
| 7 | This approach , far from just offering a comfortable sense of hand-holding , serves as an excellent safety net , as it helps us to identify at an early stage where a trainee 's progress may be for some reason deficient , and to take whatever steps may be needed to rectify the situation . |
| 8 | So let us look at an English case which exemplifies some of the practical problems confronting the theorists of sustainable development : Twyford Down ( near Winchester ) and the route of the M3 motorway in March 1990 . |