Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ca n't be certain , but it looks as if Allied Signal Corp chief executive Lawrence Bossidy has ruled himself out of the running for the top job at IBM Corp : he says that although he is ‘ flattered to be mentioned as a candidate for chairman of another company , I intend to remain at Allied-Signal to complete the job I came here to do . ’ |
| 2 | The Scotsman reported on I September that " members of the Women Compositors " , Readers " and Monotype Operators " Union intend to remain at work in the event of a strike " . |
| 3 | that tend to appear at Christmas , |
| 4 | ‘ We are fearful that older people who want to remain at home may not have the choice because the cost may be more than local authorities can afford ’ , says divisional director Evelyn MeEwen . |
| 5 | Mrs Burrows called this afternoon while you were on the shore and said that Harry was most anxious you should take part in some theatricals the young people want to perform at Easter . |
| 6 | Living rooms that also have to act as office or work room by day ( and more and more people elect to work at home if they can these days ) can still perform both functions with comparative case . |
| 7 | ‘ It was important to come back after Saturday , and we always want to win at home . |
| 8 | Now I want to look at teachers ' lives from a particular point of view. : that what our hypothetical observer is actually witnessing is people coping , in a great variety of ways , with stress . |
| 9 | Anything else you want to look at Dinda ? |
| 10 | And I just want to look at capital deployment here . |
| 11 | when I want to look at prices . |
| 12 | If you want to look at graphs then VGA is usually quite sufficient . |
| 13 | The chain of argument , up to the penultimate stage , is of the kind which supports a hypothetical imperative : ‘ If you want to look at gibbons … go to Regent 's Park ’ . |
| 14 | We want to look at stress now , and realise that it is not all negative , in fact some people actually go out and seek a fair amount of stress . |
| 15 | I guess neither men nor women want to look at cellulite on celluloid . |
| 16 | Now I want to look at Southgate 's horse . ’ |
| 17 | Now I want to look at pattern knitting with the colour changer . |
| 18 | ‘ But I feel fine in myself and I definitely want to play at Wembley . |
| 19 | ‘ I want to play at Liverpool , and I 'm glad I 'm back in the squad , which must mean I will come into consideration . |
| 20 | Subjectively , it takes much less time to display thirty lines of 72 point text at a magnification level of 15% that it would take to scroll through to find the bit you want to edit at 100% magnification . |
| 21 | My understanding is that the European parliament has got so many buildings now including a great new building at Brussels built at huge cost , enormous cost and a new building they want to build at Strasbourg . |
| 22 | Many applicants will have a firm idea of what they want to study at university , but others will want to take some time to consider various possibilities before they apply . |
| 23 | If you want to experiment at home , it 'll cost you far less than in a salon but you should get a friend to help put the rollers in to get perfectly even curls . |
| 24 | He 's the rock Northern Ireland 's strikers must get past if they want to succeed at Lansdowne Road next week . |
| 25 | That is the essence of doing business in today 's community , and we want to arrive at solutions which will enable us to move forward more united and not less . |
| 26 | That help makes all the difference to people sick with AIDS who want to stay at home , rather than spend time unnecessarily in hospital . |
| 27 | Suddenly it is glamorous to appear nice and normal , and those who used to want to run the boardroom or run away to Paris now want to stay at home and watch programmes like Roseanne and Kate And Allie — new cult programmes that offer a cosy and entirely spurious view of family life . |
| 28 | So you 've got twenty nine students in the class and fifteen want to go to Whitby , and eight want to go to Scarborough , and three little piggies want to stay at home . |
| 29 | We want to stay at Acklam Park , ’ he added . |
| 30 | The whole edifice will be known as the ‘ European Union ’ ( a term to note if you want to shine at dinner parties ) . |