Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [to-vb] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It came on suddenly — Charles has gone to look at this new sewing-factory equipment at some place in Wales … |
| 2 | M4 , the best measure we have , has risen at an annual rate of around 18 per cent , and even this year it has continued to rise at that rate . |
| 3 | To disclose whether or not a warrant has been issued in a particular case could establish means whereby those involved in serious crimes or espionage or subversion could learn the extent to which their activities had come to notice or — perhaps more damaging — could in some cases confirm whether their activities had come to notice at all . |
| 4 | You 've got to look at all the angles . ’ |
| 5 | Erm basically we 've spent more than we 've erm taken in but that was a deliberate policy agreed on by the committee we 've already mentioned Norman 's flats erm that has been a most worthwhile expenditure and we 've got to look at that as a long-term investment because we 've got flats which are going to last for years and our expenditure which was getting on for fifteen hundred pounds will not have to be repeated . |
| 6 | if you float you 'll stay at the top , some people can float and they do n't need arm bands , they stay at the top and if you sink they go to the bottom , now we 've got to look at these things look and we 've got to decide whether we think they 're gon na float , stay on the top or whether they 're going to sink and go to the bottom , now then what 's this here ? |
| 7 | yes , we we 've got to look at this in in in in the assessment er procedures as well but we 've go we 've got to try and link this up with er the the the computer work that we 're doing erm we we 've got I I I think really we we should have possibly a reasonably hefty session one evening next week to say right , how are we going to put this into practice ? |
| 8 | So I think you 've got to look at this as er saying well , if you get external advice , at least you 're covered and er I mean er if a , if a company 's in difficulties , we perhaps would know before you would , erm that erm you know that we should n't really be investing with them . |
| 9 | Duroc had had to smile at that . |
| 10 | I knew both of them very well from my Lincoln days and had agreed to lecture at this school . |
| 11 | It was situated close to the United Nations headquarters as well as being only three blocks away from the African American Institute which Mobuto had requested to see at some point during his visit . |
| 12 | Marjorie Roper and her husband say they 've already paid their poll tax once , and should n't have to clear the debts of those who 've refused to pay at all . |
| 13 | I remembered all kinds of girls whom Harvey had wanted to marry at some time or other . |
| 14 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 15 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 16 | He points out that in 1960 , married black women could have expected to have 3.49 children ; if they had continued to reproduce at this rate , the out-of-wedlock rate among black women would have increased from 23% in 1960 to just 29% in 1987 , and gone almost unnoticed . |
| 17 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 18 | ‘ Old Trafford is the one ground I have wanted to play at more than any other , ’ said Johnson , 21 . |
| 19 | We have chosen to look at these through the medium of Palatine Ales , the company we introduced you to in the previous case . |
| 20 | I have chosen to look at these two particular books because both struck me as very vivid accounts of what the authors foresee in the future and they tackle primarily the serious repercussions of the dehumanisation of man . |