Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted her to go , and she felt afraid as she realised that she did not want to go at all . |
| 2 | Additionally , in the case of a complete failure to perform to contract at all , the buyer will usually have the right to go elsewhere to a third party for the same goods and to charge the seller for any increase in the price paid to the third party over that payable to the seller . |
| 3 | Steve , asked to sit at another table , astonished their host , Lord McAlpine , with the reply : ‘ Mah woman and I sit together . ’ |
| 4 | No matter where you finally wind up in the advertising business , you will want to work at some stage in an agency to gain real insight into advertising and acquire first-rate skills ( and , hopefully , reputation ) that puts wheels under your career . |
| 5 | One old petrol stove clogged up and failed to work at all . |
| 6 | However , if you intend to work at this ‘ subtle ’ level all the time , it may be helpful to learn one or two ‘ psychic protection ’ techniques ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 7 | They passed , apparently oblivious , intent only on their own business ; but hardly a soul in the village failed to pass at some time during that day , and not one missed a detail of what was there to be seen . |
| 8 | Mine do n't want to come at all , my dad said good god that sounds like a waste of time . |
| 9 | For daring to come at all , she was cut from the Kirov team . |
| 10 | Suddenly , there facing you , is the person you least want to see at that moment . |
| 11 | In contrast to these animals , many invertebrates do not need to accommodate at all . |
| 12 | You want to abort at that point , oh yeah retry 'll do . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , anybody working in a pub , a cafe , a restaurant , a tea shop , a cinema , or serving food or drink of any type has to work at all those times . |
| 14 | Underlying this simplistic approach is sound reasoning , namely that your audience needs to know at all times where they are during your presentation . |
| 15 | Do you need to wee at all , Tim ? |
| 16 | It will have been noted that , not content with imposing upon themselves the task of ruling through the tendering of advice , which might have been thought difficult enough , the British took upon themselves in Northern Nigeria the even more difficult task of ruling without actually appearing to rule at all — an undertaking whose very absurdity only emphasizes its interest . |
| 17 | If it is diatonic we may never need to modulate at all . |
| 18 | Before you switch on , set questions to focus students on whatever you want to highlight at that stage . |
| 19 | ‘ It may be that Parliament has to look at this issue of excluding people from property when they 've got property rights , ’ he said . |
| 20 | But it is clear that if , as we have said , death from suicide is relatively common in Britain and most funeral services take place within the Christian context , then it would seem that the church needs to look at this whole subject again with a great deal more openness than has been possible up to now . |
| 21 | Yeah I think we need t I I think one really needs to look at this . |
| 22 | I want to look at that stuff they 've got over there . |
| 23 | We can often go in on the basis that if somebody has a problem that they want to look at that , just as frequently somebody has an interest that they want to develop , to know more about . |
| 24 | Yes , and this is why I want to look at this week at a glance diary , so that you will go away and I want you to fill this in as I 'm filling in on the board , you 'll go away with an idea what a diary , sorry , spit there , ha , erm , of what a diary will look like roughly , so that you know what your diary should look like every week . |
| 25 | Now I want to look at some properties . |
| 26 | I want to look at some general features of the 28 projects that we are studying . |
| 27 | Erm do n't know if you want to look at some on the paper , have a look at some in the paper and see how you do on those . |
| 28 | want to look at these |
| 29 | ‘ Well , ’ says Howard , ‘ I think the thing we want to avoid at all costs — I mean , I really feel quite strongly about this — is setting up some kind of Utopia — some kind of over-simplified Arcadia which would n't stretch the imagination of the … ’ |
| 30 | I hesitated for a moment on the stairs , turned round and tried to look at some of them , to see if there was a familiar face , a suspicious or suspecting face , a face I could place , a face that could … |