Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should not pause to sniff at the scents of other dogs , at the same time remaining very responsive to its owner 's instructions , adjusting its stance slightly , perhaps , to show off its finer points . |
| 2 | Consideration of discretion and of the roles of ‘ street-level bureaucrats ’ must also involve looking at the implications of professionalism for implementation . |
| 3 | Birdwatchers should also stop to look at The Stack on Scarlett Point — a favourite with seabirds . |
| 4 | ‘ We should really have started at the foundry , ’ said Wilcox , ‘ since that 's the first stage of our operation . |
| 5 | They clinked their glasses ; then Martin , walking towards the long window , said , ‘ It 's a good job I did n't become engaged ; you should n't get married at a time like this . ’ |
| 6 | We should n't have met at the apartment . |
| 7 | ‘ I should n't have looked at the paper — ’ |
| 8 | Fragment A is more difficult to analyse as the evidence is incomplete and the habit of keeping to a set rate of progress may not have evolved at the A stage of composition ; but it could have been completed between June 1758 and April 1759 , in a shorter or longer time depending on whether he wrote one verse or three each day . |
| 9 | The old order may not have changed at the front but there are encouraging signs for the future further down the field . |
| 10 | You 'll just get to look at the document you ca n't work |
| 11 | ‘ Then we 'll just have to stop at the first one , ’ Isabel declared . |
| 12 | Hello seven three one eight , no Roger 's off duty at the moment it 's Chris here erm , he should be , hang on I 'll just have to look at the watch roster and check up on precisely what his movements are , erm just look through tomorrow and I can find the right page in the roster here , er , two thir yeah , he 'll be on tower , so he 'll be in first thing tomorrow from about seven , seven o'clock onwards . |
| 13 | And I 'll I 'll probably have to look at a you know s Cath and I have to sit down and say , Look for every course , this needs to happen . |
| 14 | One might also consider looking at the range of employment/unemployment experience and labour market participation and activity rates , although international comparisons of unemployment are notoriously difficult to make given the variation in definitions and data collection . |
| 15 | " You might even want to teach at the end of it . |
| 16 | If the money had been spent on social and industrial problems then the American economy might well have grown at a higher rate than it has , and technological innovation might have been more rapid in areas which directly contribute to trade . |
| 17 | Early in 1971 Waddell was found guilty of committing perjury at Meehan 's trial and in sentencing him to three years ' imprisonment Lord Cameron suggested that had he told the truth there , the Meehan jury might well have arrived at a different verdict . |
| 18 | It could scarcely have come at a worse time . |
| 19 | His return to Eaton Park could scarcely have come at a more opportune moment considering that Gordon Hamilton , Stuart Laing , Norman Robson and Davy Nicholl have all moved on during the close season . |
| 20 | The train was at last " on different rails " and Unionists could not fail to rejoice at the disarray on the left , but the different rails might prove more suitable for Trotsky 's " locomotive of History " than for Unionist imperialism . |
| 21 | It was funny , in a Lewis Carroll sort of way , and at least the result was passable , if only as a trade magazine , whereas the woman 's magazine had been beyond a joke and she could not bear to look at the end product . |
| 22 | But there were times too when he could not bear to look at the free birds and preferred to huddle wanly in the shadows of his shelter , where no visitors could see him , and stare at the bare , stained concrete that was his wild moorland , and the grubby little basin of water that was his lake and the few square feet of cage that was his sky . |
| 23 | She could not bear to look at the fallen doll in white satin and tulle . |
| 24 | Harry could not help smiling at the boy 's excessive politeness . |
| 25 | Penelope could not help smiling at the formality of his words . |
| 26 | It is idle to speculate on the source of leaks — that I did learn in my years in Government — but what was certain was that the Telegraph story could not have appeared at a worse time . |
| 27 | According to Mr Dieter Brauninger , an economist at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt , the newcomers could not have arrived at a better time : a period of dynamic growth , when gaps created by the fall in the birth rate in the past two decades need to be filled . |
| 28 | If Hugh and Prior Robert had not been well mounted , and the elderly but resolute former steward of Ramsey forced to go afoot , they could not have arrived at the cathedral priory of Worcester within a day of each other . |
| 29 | In Peking 's eyes , the Nobel Peace Prize could not have come at a worse time . |
| 30 | The invitation could not have come at a better time . |