Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony Brough ( the Principal ) and I sat at High Table , but it was very democratic because the students also took it in turns to sit at High Table — and to be invited to the Principal 's office for pre-dinner drinks ! |
| 2 | Steve , asked to sit at another table , astonished their host , Lord McAlpine , with the reply : ‘ Mah woman and I sit together . ’ |
| 3 | We suggest you find out where your newly-acquired friends and acquaintances tend to gather at different times of the day . |
| 4 | No matter where you finally wind up in the advertising business , you will want to work at some stage in an agency to gain real insight into advertising and acquire first-rate skills ( and , hopefully , reputation ) that puts wheels under your career . |
| 5 | The Mini Master failed to appear at last year 's Oshkosh because one of the 582 engines failed at 6500 ft 30 minutes after take-off from San Marcos , Texas . |
| 6 | It means that the stressed syllables in an utterance tend to come at regular intervals with a varying number of less stressed syllables in between . |
| 7 | They passed , apparently oblivious , intent only on their own business ; but hardly a soul in the village failed to pass at some time during that day , and not one missed a detail of what was there to be seen . |
| 8 | Suddenly , there facing you , is the person you least want to see at that moment . |
| 9 | She shot him a look designed to kill at fifty feet , but he only raised one eyebrow in mute enquiry . |
| 10 | You want to abort at that point , oh yeah retry 'll do . |
| 11 | High street sales fell in Novbember and business this month is now expected to remain at last year 's depressed levels , says Nigel Whittaker , chairman of the CBI 's Distributive Trades Panel . |
| 12 | Driven by up to eight Intel Corp 80860XP RISCs , Realityengine is claimed to perform at 800 MFLOPS and comes with up to 160Mb of memory for handling screen display . |
| 13 | Underlying this simplistic approach is sound reasoning , namely that your audience needs to know at all times where they are during your presentation . |
| 14 | Before you switch on , set questions to focus students on whatever you want to highlight at that stage . |
| 15 | ‘ It may be that Parliament has to look at this issue of excluding people from property when they 've got property rights , ’ he said . |
| 16 | I want to look at new charges for home care and day care and transportation services for disabled people . |
| 17 | I want to look at that stuff they 've got over there . |
| 18 | In this paper , I want to look at one kind of way in which some feminists have tried to conceptualise what it is for a woman to be ‘ autonomous ’ , and at the implications this has for ways of thinking about the human self . |
| 19 | Hankin said : ‘ We want to look at two players at Nottingham and one at North Shields . |
| 20 | Yes , and this is why I want to look at this week at a glance diary , so that you will go away and I want you to fill this in as I 'm filling in on the board , you 'll go away with an idea what a diary , sorry , spit there , ha , erm , of what a diary will look like roughly , so that you know what your diary should look like every week . |
| 21 | Now I want to look at some properties . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , ’ says Howard , ‘ I think the thing we want to avoid at all costs — I mean , I really feel quite strongly about this — is setting up some kind of Utopia — some kind of over-simplified Arcadia which would n't stretch the imagination of the … ’ |
| 23 | Interest cover , for example , would not be so appropriate — the shareholder would be more interested in dividends and may need to look at alternative investment opportunities as well as the possibility of selling their shares at this stage given the results of Belper . |
| 24 | So you do need to look at that page very carefully and I still get tied up sometimes and have to do a few crossings out . |
| 25 | The bar chart that was the result of the survey we did you need to look at that piece of work and ask yourself a question , is this piece of work the best thing I have ever done ? |
| 26 | The coding frame for each question should have been constructed at the pilot stage except for open questions where we may need to look at all responses to decide on groupings . |
| 27 | The LEA will need to look at other routes as well . |
| 28 | Holding your breath builds up tension and shallow breathing denies your body the oxygen it needs to function at maximum efficiency . |
| 29 | The purpose of our work has been to try to look at all aspects of sign language which might help those who make choices . |
| 30 | Someone wants to look at , someone wants to look at that graph , and get some idea of the speed from it , the velocity . |