Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [vb infin] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are other places she could go to , of course , but so many of them would be clubs in which she would be expected to communicate and contribute at a time when all she wants is occasionally simply to be ‘ with ’ people and to be able to depart when she wishes without giving offence or disturbing the gathering . |
| 2 | Townsend says the aim of the book is to give enough information for people planning a trip and ‘ to try and capture at least some of the joy and excitement of walking in these mountains ’ . |
| 3 | So I think to some extent what one needs to do is to try and get at the governments , rather that at individual timber producers . |
| 4 | You may set that as a target to try and work at it this way to overcome that or to do it better . |
| 5 | And of course if you 're finding that there 's a shortfall there , then you 've got to try and look at your you know assets , your lump sum etcetera , as a way of , of erm er trying to cover that shortfall . |
| 6 | Ask him if he wants to come and knock at my door . |
| 7 | Would you like to come and dance at my wedding ? ’ |
| 8 | " I would like to invite you to come and stay at my house , " he said . |
| 9 | He was aware that Members had to come and go at irregular intervals at the behest of their lords and masters when the House was in session , but he feared the worst . |
| 10 | And I would n't like to cause the entire population to come and stare at me every day . ’ |
| 11 | He used to come and sit at my table when we had meals . |
| 12 | I invite her to come and sit at a table with Kurowski and me , but she prefers to remain on duty at the bar . |
| 13 | ‘ In the end we asked them to come and sit at the back of the stage , ’ Miss Picon recalled . |
| 14 | the vicar used to come and sit at the back and , you know , they used to do a little turn , you know play in the bands |
| 15 | wanted that old , is it , the rag and bone people , you know , rubbish , and er I suppose somebody taught him and er he , he played in that and er you know did the little towns and the vic the vicar used to come and sit at the back , a seat under against , under the window and watch , perhaps he thought he 'd er get some little co |
| 16 | The Company did not send expeditions of its own into this area for over a century ; like the East India and the Royal Africa Companies it established trading posts and waited for the local inhabitants to come and trade at them . |
| 17 | Were there any teams that used to come and play at Walsall that were notorious in any way ? |
| 18 | I 'm going to come and live at Moorlake . " |
| 19 | The consultation process usually takes the form of a letter describing the application and inviting you to come and look at a copy of the application and any drawings submitted with it . |
| 20 | One day in 1915 he arrived in Berthe Weill 's gallery and begged her to come and look at his stone heads . |
| 21 | But Samantha Sherratt of the Howard League for Penal Reform said : ‘ I would n't want people paying money to come and look at me as if I was in a zoo or a fishbowl . |
| 22 | But a spokeswoman for the Howard League for Penal Reform fumed : ‘ If I was in jail I would n't want people paying money to come and look at me as if I was in a zoo . ’ |
| 23 | Balbinder ran outside straight away , gesturing to me to come and look at it . |
| 24 | You do n't make dance for other choreographers to come and look at . ’ |
| 25 | There 's a nurse who sleeps in the house , and one of the lasses knocked for her to come and look at us . |
| 26 | If I 'm making a film of myself and I 'm on probation , at the end of the year I can pass or fail or have my probation extended because I 'm not successful enough to be called a qualified teacher , then I 'm opening myself up for people to come and look at my mistakes . |
| 27 | I want you to come and look at a week-old bull calf . |
| 28 | Because of the case , of going to court to claim compensation for James , we had to have neuroligists to come and look at James and assess him for thes claim and they have said that James is not in a persistent vegetative state . ’ |
| 29 | so it was a bit of er struggle to er , to get them to come and look at it and fix 'em up again , well they did n't fix 'em up they , they , they give 'em a new one , they only got it in the sale |
| 30 | And I , yes he came and so he says I 've got the keys to the flat he said , you do n't want to come and look at it do you ? |