Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [vb infin] at " in BNC.
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1 | The next questionnaire is designed to help you look at your work and get clear in your head what you 're meant to be doing and how . |
2 | She tried to make him look at her . |
3 | The big boys tried to make me feel at home by taking me to the greasy spoon for a pie but what did I care for food as the table rang with drug quips and acerbic one-liners about Danielle Dax from Gavin Martin , James Brown and Danny Kelly . |
4 | The reader refuses to let it rest at that . |
5 | Now , are you prepared to let me look at your research programme or not ? ’ |
6 | The charming gabled houses , the thousand bridges , the gently curving canals , the organ players , the bicycle riders , the street musicians , the brightly and cheerfully decorated tram cars , the flowers pots on barges and window ledges , the house boats and canal boats … all conspire to make you feel at home and welcome , in this colourful , fun loving city . |
7 | She did n't want to hear what he would say , did n't want to compound this foolishness with more folly , did n't want to hear him gloat at her easy capitulation . |
8 | My father has agreed to let me study at the university , so we shall be able to spend a lot of time together . ’ |
9 | ‘ It tends to make you look at things from a whole new perspective , do n't you think ? ’ |
10 | As none of the Company 's depôts was yet ready , they pleaded that they had nowhere to put them and after discussion , the Corporation agreed to let them remain at Thornton Heath until their own new cars arrived , provided that they were permitted to use them in service on their main line , to compensate for the mileage worked by Corporation cars in Penge . |
11 | Having made contact with a group of students at the nearby Architectural Association he went to see them play at the Goings On Club in Archer Street , a tiny place largely frequented by poets . |
12 | they wo n't , they wo n't , th they do n't intend to let it happen at all there |
13 | Now he is in a world where it 's nothing to fly to the Bahamas for a conference — and for a conference that 's probably not even going to be in the Bahamas ; a world where very high-class girls ring up uninvited and try to make you feel at home . |
14 | It fulfilled none of my expectations and seemed to be merely trying to make me laugh at the fact that it had left me standing there grasping at nothing . |
15 | Finally they told me where they had been and how they had been ushered into a sort of waiting room by the proprietress , who had endeavoured to make them feel at ease by offering them marrons glacés . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | ‘ I suppose you 're planning to make me foam at the mouth and gabble in obsolete tongues . ’ |