Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my desperate fear and danger , I was like a pain-maddened animal , ready to kill or wound at any moment . |
| 2 | He was aware that Members had to come and go at irregular intervals at the behest of their lords and masters when the House was in session , but he feared the worst . |
| 3 | Parsley is hardy and can be sown outdoors in March , but takes several weeks to germinate if sown at that time in cool temperate regions , hence , it has earnt itself the reputation of needing " to go to the Devil seven times and back " before it will sprout . |
| 4 | with , with my granddaughter , she , she did the same s she used to go and babysit at this girl 's house and she fe felt , she was only fourteen , and she felt sorry for her and she 'd go and babysit every night she 'd go and babysit and er but she used to b sit up in the bedroom , she never ever went down the sitting room thinking that the child 's mother was either down in the sitting room or just going out for a short while and coming back and then eventually they put erm a bed up in the child 's bedroom for Denise to stay there over nights and Pearl did n't worry at all , well she knew , knew where , at least she knew where and er this girl was bringing men back down in the sitting room every night , three or four , sometimes ten men in a night during the night ! |
| 5 | And it 's quite interesting to , to go and look at that road now and see just what it 's like . |
| 6 | ‘ I need to go and look at this furniture for the house , ’ she admitted . |
| 7 | ‘ But the only way we can find that out will be to go and look at this mistletoe , and on the way you can tell me more about Miss Miggs . ’ |
| 8 | Patrick you know where I would like to go and look at this thing we have |
| 9 | Excursions : Enterprise have arranged much for you to see and do at reasonable prices . |
| 10 | ‘ People do get work that way but it 's horrible to sit and watch at those parties where there 's so much competition and everyone 's running around in tight frocks getting drunk ’ , she says . |
| 11 | In reality , however , the difference between him and a shareholder may not be anything like as clear-cut , for the debenture may give the holder a contractual right : — to appoint a director ; to a share of profits ( whether or not available for dividend ) ; to repayment at a premium ; to attend and vote at general meetings and even to convert his debentures into equity shares . |
| 12 | A member entitled to attend and vote at this meeting may appoint a proxy or proxies to attend and , on a poll , vote instead of him or her . |
| 13 | Recognised junior equipment is also available to buy or hire at many RYA centres . |
| 14 | Under ‘ mass-production ’ conditions the industry was obliged to keep its labour-teams steadily employed , moving in a planned succession from one undertaking to another , and progressively brought down its costs to reach an ever-widening circle of demand for homes to buy or rent at economic figures . |
| 15 | Should an instrument come with an option attached allowing investors to buy or sell at particular prices ? |
| 16 | For ‘ prodigies ’ ( ‘ Mr Binyon 's young prodigies ’ ) surely we ought to read ‘ protégés ’ ; and then it becomes possible to wonder whether the jocularity about bulldogs does n't mark a wistful or resentful sense that Binyon and Sturge Moore ( ‘ old Neptune ’ ) might have done more with their respective protégés than merely set them to sniff and snarl at each other 's heels ; to question whether the two senior writers could not have established themselves — at least for some purposes — as masters of ateliers in which the two young hopefuls might have enrolled as apprentices . |
| 17 | In the static methods , changes in the temperature dependence of an intensive property , such as density or heat capacity are followed and measurements are carried out slowly , to allow the sample to equilibrate and relax at each observation temperature . |
| 18 | I could not have looked out of the window if I had tried , the chores were all done , and there was nothing whatever to do except sit at that table and write . |
| 19 | There were things all three of them knew , and things all three of them were wondering , but no one cared to question or acknowledge at this hour . |
| 20 | British industry suffered a major crisis and needed to reorganise and rationalise at all levels . |
| 21 | But , although many babies pull off hats , socks and booties in their first year , they do n't really try to dress or undress at this stage . |
| 22 | The TPU provides a flexible layer , allowing the materials to expand and contract at different rates without delaminating . |
| 23 | I did not know what to say or do at this moment but just said ‘ Thy will be done ’ . |
| 24 | He is prone to speak and write at one moment as though motives were transparently obvious , and at the next as though they were inscrutable mysteries far beyond the range of his competence . |
| 25 | As soon as the hook went in it charged across the river into a weedbed on the other bank , where it decided to sulk and play at immovable objects . |
| 26 | This occurred despite the system being , from a Western perspective , singly ill-suited for its new air-defence role : inadequate in range , mobility , acceleration , and with engine components which were likely to melt when operated at full power . |