Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] at [art] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , yes , I think that they any prospective purchaser should look at the insurance and just make sure he 's getting the very best that he can on his vehicle . |
| 2 | The governors have power to decide the school 's complement — that is , how many people should work at the school and at what level . |
| 3 | The Court of Appeal said that the court must look at the wording and surrounding circumstances to find out what interest the clause was intended to protect . |
| 4 | Even if it were true , as some scientific students of law believe , that a past service can not support a future promise , you must look at the document and see if the promise can not receive a proper effect in some other way . |
| 5 | And now , like as not , Sam 'll win at the fishing and you 'll be trothed to him — a bastard of Sir Gregory 's . " |
| 6 | Now let's look at the manoeuvre and tacking in more detail , you will remember it 's a sequence which involves changing hands , pushing , changing sides and then straightening up again . |
| 7 | Before people talk of Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals , they ought to look at the map and understand what they are saying . |
| 8 | The invisible powers of nature were analogous to the visible powers of the magnet , which could act at a distance and penetrate matter with its rays . |
| 9 | He 'd look at a problem and come up with a totally different answer to the one you 'd expect … |
| 10 | I 'd go off to work , and she 'd look at the script and say : ‘ Who are you working with today , what are you doing ? ’ |
| 11 | You 'd look at the sergeant and if he O. K. d it , you 'd have one but if he did n't , you bloody would n't . ’ |
| 12 | The girls said it was the room with the round window that faced down the town and that Eve could sit at the window and watch everyone and where they went and who they were with . |
| 13 | I wish I could sit at the table and help cut up Annie 's food like I used to , and we 'd have crackers and we 'd wear those paper hats and have them little prezzies from inside the crackers . |
| 14 | A London grandmother was particularly troublesome because of her drinking sprees , but her granddaughter was expected to clean her front doorsteps every Saturday : ‘ the old bugger used to sit at the window and watch me clean 'em . |
| 15 | There were twenty five thousand , I , I would n't like to see twenty five thousand on that ground again , because I , I used to smoke at the time and we were packed that tight in the ground I could n't even get my hands down to my pockets to get a cigarette out , so the erm after the first few games they started to draw at home and then they seemed to lose the impetus and that they still held a good position in the league , but the following season Liverpool were in the second division at the time , and I , I went to that match and Walsall scored first through Colin and er , they went on to beat us six-one in the end . |
| 16 | Several much smaller tubes , also square , would run at the top and bottom to strengthen it . |
| 17 | So , ’ he added sweetly , ‘ we shall stop at every tavern and ale house along the road . |
| 18 | On the way I would stop at a restaurant and have lunch and then continue , taking my time . |
| 19 | I smiled to myself as I let in the clutch and moved off I would stop at the shop and tell the little man that he could collect his pans without the slightest fear of being torn limb from limb , but my overriding emotion was one of relief that I had not cut the sparkle out of the big dog 's life . |
| 20 | He says you 've got one that would join at the money and can do the job |
| 21 | Mother Francis would have loved that old cottage to be Eve 's home ; she could see in her mind 's eye a kind of life where Eve would bring her student friends home from university to stay there for weekends , and they would call at the convent and have tea in the parlour . |
| 22 | But I knew Elsie would start at the top and not go very far down . |
| 23 | While he talked to a girl , she would sit at the bar and talk to the nearest man . |
| 24 | She would sit at the piano and sing . |
| 25 | At first young dogs may paw at the floor and whine when confined in this way , but obviously you must ignore this while you are driving . |
| 26 | A resident of the North Shore will look at a wave and say , ‘ Bad weather they 've been having in Alaska ’ , or ‘ I see Siberia is in trouble again ’ . |
| 27 | well no , because what you can do know is you can go to somebody who will sit down with a mini computer and that 's what you need , a mini computer and will sit down and will look at a job and will say right , if you take this job , it can also claim Family Credit of so much , and , and they actually do a , a sort of alternative benefit calculation , and what they do is they look at , if you take this job and take all the other things into account , will you be better off ? |
| 28 | The first phase will begin at the Horse and Groom end of the street in the coming financial year and later works will proceed when finance and opportunities permit . |
| 29 | Anyway , I said I 'd make enquiries as to what was wanted and I said because there 's a new children 's ward will open at the hospital and perhaps they would . |
| 30 | Let's start at the end and work back . |