Example sentences of "[vb infin] at [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | mum goes , do n't you swear at her no swearing thank you , and it 's like she hates swearing , it 's like , not even swearing cows and animals |
| 2 | But — ’ and here she sighed , ‘ Lily darling , I could look and look at him the whole day … ’ |
| 3 | So what I was wondering was er the scheme is in it 's infancy this and I 'm all in the favour of the decentralising in principle , but I think we ought to perhaps look at it a bit closer , and I would suggest that we have an up-to-date report at the next meeting of this committee so we can compare it over a longer term so , as that we might then reflect on a if we 're doing the right thing or not . |
| 4 | ‘ You could look at it the other way , I suppose , ’ replied the radiant Morse . |
| 5 | They might look at you the wrong way , say something that annoys you . |
| 6 | That 's why I was n't going to hand this out right at the beginning , because I wanted to make you work at it a bit more , er , then you can , when you 've got those two versions written underneath . |
| 7 | Shades of my father , I thought , but replied amicably : ‘ Because I enjoy it , and remember that I do n't work at it the whole year , so I do n't get bored . ’ |
| 8 | And I would n't like to cause the entire population to come and stare at me every day . ’ |
| 9 | But although he was terse , he did n't rage at me the way I expected him to . |
| 10 | but I I acknowledge it as they come they can fire at me every sentence and I |
| 11 | Well he looks like we could play at ours the day before and can borrow Doug 's |
| 12 | When children have not been warned that their parent is going to ignore them rather than shout at them the rate of their difficult behaviour may temporarily increase ( Sajwaj and Dillon 1976 ) . |