Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want you to begin at the beginning and tell me your life . |
| 2 | I want you to look at a cow now . |
| 3 | Now the next , I want you to look at the verse prologue of the play . |
| 4 | ‘ Dave , I want you to stay at the office . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's a very special person I want you to meet at the concert tomorrow . |
| 6 | The plain fact is , if a PC does what you want it to do at a speed you 're happy with , then its performance is perfectly acceptable . |
| 7 | This packet of light would disturb the particle and cause it to move at a speed in some direction . |
| 8 | I swing round slowly , slowly , and slowly level it to aim at the spider , slowly push it forward against the pull of the concertina pipe behind . |
| 9 | ‘ I tell her to sit at the back of the class , otherwise nobody can see over her head . ’ |
| 10 | The aircraft flies comparatively slowly , at about 700 km/hr , but its big wings allow it to cruise at a height of more than 21 000 m — nearly double that of a transatlantic airliner . |
| 11 | PC Chris Eden said : ‘ It 's amazing how drivers ’ attitudes change when we ask them to look at the recording . |
| 12 | For example : I expect her to obey me when I make a reasonable request or command , so that , if ( say ) I ask her to remain at the table until she 's finished her meal , she does so without endless arguments or fits of temper . |
| 13 | To assert this is merely to reiterate a point that should be obvious : that science , however sophisticated its instrumentation , can not generate observations that somehow enable us to look at the relationship between experience and the world as it were from outside of experience . |
| 14 | ‘ We have nothing to add at the moment , ’ said a spokesperson for the betting shops association who advised bookies to withhold winnings after Jo N Jack 's success eight days ago . |