Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] at [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite much rebuilding and the need for dogged perseverance by Holroyd Smith and his supporters , his conduit line although equipped with primitive electrical apparatus , handled everything Blackpool 's crowds and the sea could throw at it until 1899 , when it was converted to the cheaper overhead line method now used . |
| 2 | I wish he 'd smile at me like that , Anne thought . |
| 3 | Maybe Matthew would look at her with fresh eyes , realize that the innocent freckled little creature he used to take swimming ( or riding , or bicycling or something ) had suddenly grown into a beautiful woman . |
| 4 | We shall look at it in some detail in this chapter , devoting two sections , 5.1 and 5.2 , to it . |
| 5 | I would go at it like mad and when the middle bit came I would think , ‘ Thank God , I can have a rest , ’ says Charman . |
| 6 | The idea was to sit the listener in the middle of a square array of loudspeakers , so sound would come at him from all corners — despite the fact that most live performances of music take place in front of the listener . |
| 7 | Rose did n't smack her charge : too little ; but she would complain at her in exasperated sing-song . |
| 8 | Only regressive assimilation of voice is found across word boundaries , and then only of one type ; since this matter is important for foreign learners we will look at it in some detail . |
| 9 | Well I think you can look at it on two levels and one , one reason is to change the Party structure shake them up a bit , cos there 's , there 's evidence that they were erm you know moving to the right and allying with er rich peasants and landlords , and the other , on the level is actually having a policy which would get mass support and this obviously would require incentives in the form of land to peasants . |