Example sentences of "aiming [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tips for budding conker conquerors ( like those above ) include aiming for the the top ( the weakest part ) of your opponent 's conker with the periphery of your own . |
| 2 | ‘ I was only aiming for the British record , ’ Wooderson declared in a state of shock which caused him sleepless nights for a week . |
| 3 | The alternative route of return descends the rough western slope aiming for the top of the Kingsdale — Deepdale road , which soon comes into view , and there turns right . |
| 4 | The strategy thus usually starts by aiming for the ideal result but having two other results in mind . |
| 5 | Only the ferryman on the Oban/Lismore boat knew that I was aiming for the northern ferry to mainland Port Appin . |
| 6 | He began to work on the body , aiming for the solar plexus all the time . |
| 7 | Among them , aiming for the racegoers ' carriages , was gaunt-face . |
| 8 | Jess elbowed through the crowd , aiming for the opposite side of the barn where a ladder led to a hayloft . |
| 9 | Griffin is hoping to run in the London Marathon and is aiming for the Olympic marathon in Barcelona . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps it is saying something when I tell you he was aiming for the optician 's and ended up in the carpet shop , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Because industrial growth has been so fast there is virtually full employment , with a particular shortage of staff at the clerical/secretarial level , since the new generation of university-educated Singaporeans is aiming for the higher paid jobs . |
| 12 | She bunched her fingers into a sharp cone and stabbed above the Daughter 's girdle-line , aiming for the throat , but the Daughter was too fast , and chopped her wrist , deflecting the blow . |
| 13 | When North Harbour were aiming for the top in New Zealand it took four years of struggle — getting beaten by the top provinces — before we managed to make our own mark . |
| 14 | Pricing has yet to be decided , but BT is aiming for the look and feel of the service to be the same as for its existing messaging services . |
| 15 | At the same time , last week Compaq announced two new families — eight models — in its ProSignia series , aiming for the corporate market , in combination with the low-price models announced last October in Japan . |
| 16 | Now more of a sex vixen than the innocent girl next door it remains to be seen if one can retain her teeny bop audience while aiming for the ( slightly ) more mature rock audience . |
| 17 | We were virtually aiming for the impossible : to launch the revamped Friends of John McCarthy complete with campaign logo , notepaper and T-shirts , by our target date of 17 February , in four weeks ' time . |
| 18 | She leaned against him comfortably , and he began to wonder about the possibilities in aiming for the wide sleeve of her dress . |
| 19 | Calera are obviously aiming for the mass market . |
| 20 | ‘ Now I 'm aiming for the top . |
| 21 | The soldier swung again , this time aiming for the head . |
| 22 | The other , only a couple of feet further off , was boring in low , aiming for the region of his groin . |
| 23 | IBM always did go for the best , aiming for the long term . |
| 24 | Stephen Hendry : aiming for the No1 spot again |
| 25 | it just stopped short of the window , well no it was quite short you know , you could just see it aiming for the window , luckily it was plugged in |
| 26 | Though his present audience was overwhelmingly composed of Texans , he was aiming through the lens of the television camera at a much larger audience . |
| 27 | The company reportedly also has a version of Spike called M-1 , short for No 1 microprocessor , that it 's aiming against the Sun/Texas Instruments SuperSparc , Viking . |
| 28 | He has also got a good routine going with his putting now that his caddie , Fanny Sunesson , has stopped crouching down behind him before he putts to make sure he is aiming in the right direction . |
| 29 | Does he think that he is doing a good job in alerting the country to the rapid rate of convergence at which he is aiming in the exchange rate mechanism and the possible move towards European monetary union ? |
| 30 | If he was involved in competitive sports before , aiming from the start at tournaments and championships places a lot of pressure on the patient , and it may lead to bitter frustration when he can not reach his previous standards as quickly as he might hope . |