Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] at the [noun] 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 | Really the Council is in a position where it must act upon complaint , and it must look at the complaints and comments that 's been received . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We must look at the standards and work in schools from an objective standpoint , and that should involve some outsiders , which means non-educationists , looking , inspecting and reporting . |
| 7 | And now , like as not , Sam 'll win at the fishing and you 'll be trothed to him — a bastard of Sir Gregory 's . " |
| 8 | Let's look at the groups and the enemies in more detail . |
| 9 | Let's look at the advantages and disadvantages of these alternatives in turn . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Before people talk of Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals , they ought to look at the map and understand what they are saying . |
| 12 | " But my mistresses go home to their husbands for Christmas , and although I could stay at the Covington-Pyms and ride out with the hunt on Boxing Day morning , and call round at the Moons on my way back to cheer up poor Marie … |
| 13 | Cos that 's when , when , when we get to that nearer the date , we could , we could just , you know , when you 're confirmed that you 've been booked and you 're definitely going , erm we could look at the finances and see how much we could afford to , to give , erm , something to each person to help with , eit either with the accommodation or , or the transport . |
| 14 | They 'd look at the waterworks and come back . |
| 15 | 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 ? ’ |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | You see , he was exceptionally nice and he used to lecture at the colleges and er he was a real , very nice gentleman and er and so he , of course he , he , he took his drink across to the table with him and sometimes I took it for him it just depend and he , he wrote this book and er I forget now , perhaps you would like to read and see what he says |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But sometimes a double bill would show at the Ritz and nowhere else . |
| 23 | I would look at the lines and tremble . |
| 24 | Several much smaller tubes , also square , would run at the top and bottom to strengthen it . |
| 25 | There we shall look at the functions and services supplied by each and at the significant features of their balance sheets . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He says you 've got one that would join at the money and can do the job |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Raymond , husband of Jane Jones , would come at the weekends and in summer some evenings as well . |
| 30 | But I knew Elsie would start at the top and not go very far down . |