Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People should start looking at him in another year or 18 months . ’ |
| 2 | Yeah , I , I 'm suggesting that the facilities management contract , be referred to the budget review sub-committee for consideration , and in that way we can actually consider it , and obviously if the report is not yet prepared , erm , perhaps we can put some input into it , I have to say , that it disturbs me to be given an answer , that do n't worry everybody , there 's a report coming , and then we suddenly say well , we might like to look at it in three weeks time , we 're told actually it 's not written yet . |
| 3 | I might have looked at her outside the church and seen just another assembly-line bride . |
| 4 | Other people may keep talking at you as a means of reinforcing their relationship to you : ‘ I matter to you , so you must give me plenty of airtime . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Room service , ’ said the waiter , glancing down at the tip of the silencer he could see pointed at him from through the white cloth covering the lower part of the trolley . |
| 6 | This is a copy of the letter they sent , if you 'd like to look at it in your own time and tell whether the information in it is correct . |
| 7 | A : hello Mr Parkin this is Guy Cook here B : yes A : er do you remember um sending us a er an estimate for electrical repairs * for a hundred and fifty pounds * well I 've er just had a word with the Electricity Board with an engineer called Mr Golding and he tells me that the er the list of jobs you gave us unless there 's any special circumstances should not be more than around one hundred pounds B : oh * A : well he said he 'd have to look at it of course but er is there some special reason why you thought it would cost more A : well would you be prepared to do it for the price he quoted B : no A : well why not B : I ca n't afford it not with my wages and overheads £ I have A : well £ why should I pay an extra fifty pounds if I can get it done cheaper * B : well if you can do that * do |
| 8 | Er , so , there is undoubtedly a lot of work still to be done in making the D S O competitive , as for building maintenance work , I 'm not certain we 've ever considered having a building maintenance D S O. We may have looked at it in the days before D S Os , but that 's er , a long time ago , and it 's certainly worth having a look . |
| 9 | But if Bobby wanted to get in on it now , he 'd have been turned away at the door : the elitists would have laughed at him for being in an indie band and ‘ Loaded ’ might never have been produced . |
| 10 | Normally she would have screamed at him for the minute splinters she knew he must be creating , but now she kept her anger for other matters . |
| 11 | There is no doubt that some problems can be solved with ease if only we can get to look at them in a different way . |