Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While some may come to admire the Guercino or the girandoles , many people , including children , may enjoy looking at the old or not-so-old toys , or even a collection of fifty years of milk bottles from the local dairy . |
| 2 | This review process needs to be carried out on a fairly regular basis , perhaps every six months , and it should include looking at the current state of the market to see if there are any new developments that can be applied . |
| 3 | At a running start you should plan to start at the downwind end . |
| 4 | You should begin exercising at the correct pace . |
| 5 | I said , if you 'd have said what you should have said at the bloody tribunal . |
| 6 | I think we should have said at the first the very first lesson , they just ploughed straight into did n't they ? |
| 7 | I think I should have stayed at the old school where they had confidence in me . |
| 8 | If you use windows it is worth putting applications that you might need to use at the same time on different drives . |
| 9 | Well I think we 'll have to re-look at the whole question of village envelopes in certain cases , where it is decided that low cost housing is desirable , and see if in some way , they can encourage the farmer to make land available so that he can make some money which he badly needs at the moment , as agriculture 's going through one of the biggest depressions it 's been through for years . |
| 10 | Just once , as the waves came up over her feet , she hesitated and gave a short gasp , as anyone might have done at the sudden cold . |
| 11 | As for magic , which readers of Frazer 's The Golden Bough might suppose to lie at the very centre of the anthropologist 's interests , I can only say that , after a lifetime 's career as a professional anthropologist , I have almost reached the conclusion that the word has no meaning whatever . |
| 12 | Do you think that that is a hint that perhaps the high litre cars — that is the four litre efforts and er the company cars might get taxed at the next budget round ? |
| 13 | ‘ It is n't the weather for sightseeing , but he might care to look at the old Adlon hotel . ’ |
| 14 | Although that was extremely pleasant , and something I 'd like to repeat at the earliest possible opportunity , ’ he added , his eyes glinting brightly . |
| 15 | Well I 'd like to look at the national implications of this . |
| 16 | At her side , introducing her to people , encouraging her to elaborate on some of her ideas for the future , Luke was urbane , expressing only suave approval , and no one could have guessed at the personal contempt he felt for her , not a hint of it — or anything else personal either — allowed to show through his sophisticated public manner . |
| 17 | However , it is difficult to believe that sufficient quantities of suitable substances could have appeared at the Cytherean surface to mop up anywhere near the amount of oxygen that would be liberated from an Earth-like quantity of water . |
| 18 | He stepped away from her and she could have wept at the cold desolation that closed round her . |
| 19 | On the other hand , if the member of parliament was induced to solicit for the removal of an acting officer , any failure to arrange the question satisfactorily would be taken in his constituency as a failure of political interest in London and evidence of a lack of effective power , which again could prove damaging at the next general election . |
| 20 | The question may have niggled at the 7,776 advertising talents who entered their work for the prestigious Design & Art Direction Awards , some of whom will turn up tonight at a glittering Grosvenor House junket to find out whether they have won one of the silver or gold pencils . |
| 21 | It may have formed at the same time as Coed y Brenin . |
| 22 | Employees may try working at the new location for a short time and then decide not to continue . |
| 23 | The old slate quarry here is one of the largest man-made holes in Britain , and such is the fascination that holes in the ground exercise on the mind of man that there are special viewing platforms where visitors may stand to gape at the awesome chasm . |
| 24 | I I th would prefer to look at the vacant dwellings as a single entity rather than necessarily splitting them down between the the the various types . |
| 25 | If you would like to look at the second sheet on your erm of the two that you 've got , erm this really brings to mind , one day in St Aldate 's , in the summer of 1643 , when a very hard working , methodical loyal official , Edward Heath , was ordered by the King and his Council to walk around St Aldate 's , and make a list of all the defaulters , all those who had failed to work on the fortifications . |
| 26 | Support Alan on Saturday and contact him with details those items you would like auctioned at the next opportunity in December . |
| 27 | For example , a centred heading above justified text would become blocked at the left-hand margin if Alt+P was applied to it as well as to the text below . |
| 28 | She was walking too quickly , stumbling occasionally , past long belts like dressing-gown cords hanging from poles , which plucked at her face as she pushed through , straying over a pile of new dyed wool , brilliant and damp , into a glare of sunlight , stepping back from a mule loaded with carpets , bumping into a wall where blue thread ran along from a spinning wheel , guarded from tangling by small boys who pushed at her and muttered and laughed ; she would have grasped at the thin thread to lead her out . |
| 29 | Not that it was much of a one then : discovery would have meant at the most punishment and a diatribe against immigrants generally , with the chief worry , what contagion she might have picked up . |
| 30 | Many a display organiser and participant would have looked at the prevailing conditions , shrugged shoulders and turned away from the problem , presented a ‘ weather-out ’ show to the paying public . |