Example sentences of "[vb infin] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern F&B managers would delight at the instructions to waitresses to ‘ only half fill the Cups with Coffee ( unless asked to fill them up ) and add Boiled Milk but do not quite fill the Cups ’ , or , for dinner , ‘ Begin at Right end of each Division and with a Bill of Fare held in front of each Person , at each course , ask , naming the article , what they will have . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You did n't quibble at the Feathers , ’ he snapped . |
| 3 | You may rest assured , Sir Richard , that in the end we will discover the truth and the murderer , whoever he or she may be , will hang at the Elms for all London to see ! ’ |
| 4 | A quick end , rather than torture and rape at the hands of those barbarians in the hall . |
| 5 | She would appear at the gates of the Waaf Site about 10.45pm , armed with a torch half the size of the Flamborough lighthouse , when upwards of a dozen couples would be propping up the fence saying goodnight . |
| 6 | What do they do at the shareholders meeting ? |
| 7 | ‘ If there is anything we can do at the dams , it may be that we can raise their levels by even two or three inches , but that has implications for the surrounding countryside . ’ |
| 8 | Inside , Virgin 's pilots are landing on runway twenty seven at Heathrow , in the simulator they can take off and land as often as they like at this the world 's busiest airport , but in real life Virgin says it has to fight for slots to take off and land at the times to suit business travellers , it blames B A. B A says it does n't allocate slots or monopolize Heathrow Airport . |
| 9 | You 'll open those jaws of yours so wide the hinges will snap at the corners . ’ |
| 10 | Let us begin at the roots of this multifarious society . |
| 11 | As the woman who dreamed up the slogan ‘ A Dog Is For Life , Not Just For Christmas ’ , she needs to have a high profile for campaigning , while still being able to turn her hand to clearing the odd blocked drain that might occur at the kennels . |
| 12 | One problem with the circuit is that when the input is a low-frequency signal , the output amplitude becomes large and limiting may occur at the potentials of the bias supply . |
| 13 | Rather complicated interactions can occur at the synapses that connect one cell to another , so the dimensions of a synapse are also of interest . |
| 14 | I do not wish to know how to bring up my children , what view to have about drug addicts , how much Shakespeare should be taught in comprehensive schools or how much I must marvel at the achievements of members of the Commonwealth countries . |
| 15 | Secondly , the council may balk at the costs of determining whether a treatment is scientifically valid . |
| 16 | In this chapter we shall look at ways of smoothing the edges off the jagged initial appearance of data plotted over time ; we shall look at the observations three at a time , taking seriously the spirit of this somewhat sarcastic remark , to get indications of the trend . |
| 17 | An outline of the way field-workers gained entry to the communities , with particular reference to the thinking behind the method , may be found in 3.6 ; I shall look at the procedures in a little more detail here . |
| 18 | We 'll look , we 'll actually look at the processes of deep water formation tomorrow , so you 'll actually see how the waters are formed , but the reason why this is high is basically the act of A , low biological activity removing it and B , the fact that the source waters have not come from below , they 've come in horizontally from an area where they were formed which was very rich in oxygen . |
| 19 | And he will look at the plans for the oil refinery which he is destined to build on this land . |
| 20 | I did look at the plans , and a book on sled dog training , and promptly forgot the whole thing until reminded two or three weeks before the promised delivery date . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , now we 've survived another of your mini-disasters , ’ he continued , ‘ I thought that after dinner we 'd look at the plans ; it will save time tomorrow . |
| 22 | It will look at the motivations of different family members , and identify the ways families negotiate the division of business and household work . |
| 23 | Porter argues that one should look at the areas of the value chain which contain the largest proportion of costs and then consider what cost-drivers of the ten he identifies cause those costs . |
| 24 | In particular I shall look at the attempts of recent years to unearth other , female ( or feminine ) imagery , present in the scriptures and in the Christian tradition . |
| 25 | And then we as the form teacher sits why ca n't the kids look at the reports as well ? |
| 26 | We shall look at the differences between these theories in detail in Chapter 13 . |
| 27 | If I continue then with some introductory remarks erm on policy H one a and one A , perhaps that would set the scene er for the discussion , then Mr will very briefly erm look at the differences as he sees them between the two sets erm of projections . |
| 28 | We need only look at the institutions . |
| 29 | So when I take this out and pout this through the window it shines straight up and you can look at the clouds and you can tell which direction the wind is . |
| 30 | If we just go back to the plan in the future , erm , and we move down to this section here , let's look at the questions we 're asking . |