Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force . |
| 2 | It was agreed Somerville and McCrea would stay on at the apartment in case Quinn called in . |
| 3 | He had gained five distinctions in his Matriculation examinations and it had been decided that he would stay on at the College until he was eighteen to take Higher School Certificate . |
| 4 | It was at this moment that I decided I must learn to dance , so that I could stay on at the pensione instead of roaming about . |
| 5 | Yes and did you stay on at the hospital then ? |
| 6 | It is understood that the companies set out in Schedule 2 , are , other than ABC GmbH and ABC Corp , wholly owned subsidiaries of ABC and will remain so at the time of the acquisition of ABC . |
| 7 | I suppose it was good for us , but we did n't think so at the time . |
| 8 | I mean , I did n't think so at the time but when I think of it you know , and later when I came back after the war we , oh my God ! |
| 9 | Man 's cultural development can arise only at the cost of a persisting lack of satisfaction of those sexual impulses which are seen as improper by men and women — the higher the degree of civilization and education , the greater the number of unsatisfied impulses . |
| 10 | ‘ Surely she did n't bathe alone at the Cove , especially at that time of the year ? ’ |
| 11 | Let's jump in at the deep end — literally . |
| 12 | A wash and brush up keeps the wheels in good shape … but sometimes mechanics can only sratch away at the problem . |
| 13 | If , for example , a customer likes Marks and Spencers ' potato crisps , he can only buy more at the same shop ( or another branch of Marks and Spencers in a different town ) . |
| 14 | But we 'll know more at the PM . ’ |
| 15 | There is no trim , mixture , flaps , prop control or gyros to worry about , so with a final tug at the harness , one can only glare balefully at the JAP again , decide that it has kept going thus far and may therefore be relied upon to continue doing so for a few minutes longer , and prepare to commit aviation . |
| 16 | After the shopping Denis would sit in the orderly room , watching his father write in ledgers twice as wide and twenty times as thick as his school exercise-books , or he 'd gaze longingly at the Royal Irish Constabulary uniforms of his father 's colleagues with their shining buttons and belts hanging neatly from pegs on the wall , the caps , the spiked helmets and the little pill-box hats of the cavalry police lined up , as if on parade , on a table along with whistle-chains , handcuff-cases and batons . |
| 17 | Not only do we strip off at the beach , but we have brought the values of the beach inland . |
| 18 | From the outside , a passer-by will gaze up at the window , and all he will see is that lavender light . |
| 19 | And there 's plenty of time because the moment they return they 'll all line up at the toilets . ’ |
| 20 | Contestants will line up at the Blundellsands Hotel , Crosby , at 8am on Sunday and will then parade through the city centre before setting off on their cross-Channel jaunt . |
| 21 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
| 22 | But something made him glance up at the lounge window as he approached . |
| 23 | Which was supposed to open and flap back at the end of the world and let her out , resurrected . |
| 24 | I said , oh perhaps they could come up to us you know , I did n't know quite at the moment what our plans were for over the weekend . |
| 25 | They get it into their heads that their fund-raising dinner for Hypothermic Pensioners In High Rise Blocks In Portsmouth will fall apart at the seams if Dillie Keane is n't there . |
| 26 | ‘ In other words you could n't bear the thought that there might just be one female in a hundred-mile radius who did n't fall apart at the seams every time you deigned to smile in her direction , ’ she spat back . |
| 27 | Punitive taxes — and the insidious rhetoric that is invariably used to justify them , and then to raise them again — would eat away at the working spirit . |
| 28 | In the morning the water would run , run fast and sweet along a mains pipe until it met with an obstruction and the water would eat away at the mass that blocked it . |
| 29 | ‘ If a husband or wife wants a family deep down , then it may eat away at the relationship and they may blame their partner for not allowing them to fulfil their needs . ’ |
| 30 | Even a pious man like Jovellanos could feel bitterly at the attempts of the Inquisition to sabotage his plans for establishing a modern technical institute at Gijon . |