Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] the [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A comprehensive questionnaire may mean that you do not need to see the witness at the earliest stage of your investigations ( see Appendix 9A ) . |
| 2 | I could n't wait to spend the weekend at the lineside to see what other surprises were in store . |
| 3 | Major must act to stop the drift at the Treasury |
| 4 | I do not like using the telephone at the best of times and was never very fond of small-talk , that tedious lubricant for rusty little minds . |
| 5 | There are Garden-wide requirements for glare filters , chairs , foot-rests , document-holders and , above all , operator training , which will be the subject of a separate report , but I thought you might like to know the position at the specialist gardens , all of which I have visited recently . |
| 6 | I ca n't believe had the bell at the same one . |
| 7 | He should haev held the children at the scene and called the police . |
| 8 | I do n't I do n't know that I 'd fancy doing , I mean I did like biology , but I do n't think I 'd specifically want to do the biology at the level that they 're doing it up there , cos it 's too much of a jump from what I 've ever done before |
| 9 | ‘ George did n't want to put the business at the cottage to them , you can see why , and it 's pretty clear they do n't want to believe in a conspiracy anyway , even when they knew about the Reznichenko Memorandum . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You might have seen the girl at the Wychwood Forest Fair , last year . |
| 11 | More analysis of the deregulation lessons for Europe ( which will not finally happen until 1997 ) from the US experience would have helped the student at the start of 1993 . |
| 12 | If he had n't eaten it , I would have bought the cake at the auction and got rid of it . |
| 13 | Careful diplomacy and a wiser man than Otto might have avoided the disaster at the battle of Bouvines in July 1214 , where Philip Augustus soundly defeated John and Otto , for the Flemish cities with their economic interests had a natural ally in England and the duke of Brabant and the counts of Flanders , Holland and of Boulogne were played off Philip Augustus . |
| 14 | If you do not have an overseas domicile , you will have to pay the tax at the same rates as if you lived in Britain . |
| 15 | Tonight : a High Court Judge is to head an enquiry into the Strangeways prison riot while former convict John McVicar says the army should have stormed the jail at the start . |
| 16 | He may have left the Daltons at the time of their troubles . |
| 17 | At the Council of Bari in October 1098 , Anselm delivered the main speech , and — according to Eadmer — Urban II would have excommunicated the king at the Council , but Anselm pleaded for him . |
| 18 | The NCC rounds off its booklet with a list of 10 guidelines for course developers : survey the site , evaluate it , defuse any local notions that golf is anti-conservation , allow plenty of room in the design , avoid sensitive areas in the lay-out , take care of drainage sites , do n't bother designing the rough at the start ( it 'll become clear anyway ) , plant native species , manage the land sympathetically , and keep people educated about what you 're doing . |
| 19 | Now new work at the museum together with an innovative exhibition programme will aim to place the museum at the forefront of thought and experimentation on urban design as well as in the context of French history . |
| 20 | On Saturday evenings , he 'd fold open the newspaper at the fixture list and sing the refrain ‘ £75,000 ’ to the signature tune of Sports Report ( £75,000 was then the top prize dividend paid out by Littlewood 's or Vernon 's football pool ) . |
| 21 | Elections may help produce the personnel at the apex of government but they tell us little about likely public policy . |