Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | She moved , placing herself where he had to look at her , Coffin was embarrassed for her . |
| 2 | I felt helpless and despairing and suddenly so ill that I had to clutch at the door to stop myself falling . |
| 3 | from Liverpool Street I wanted to get to Oxford Circus which meant that I had to change at , I forget where now , because I 'm in such a , a muddle now after all this , |
| 4 | Knowing that I had to start at a new school in the city , with new people and new teachers , I began to worry all over again . |
| 5 | The kitchen looked so clean and bright , and the ladies so kind and sensible , that I dared to knock at the door . |
| 6 | It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment . |
| 7 | ‘ There was something I remembered that I wanted to look at , and I thought it would be an interesting place to spend my leave . |
| 8 | Maria was aware of Luke studying her , although she refused to look at him , afraid of meeting his eyes . |
| 9 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 10 | He did sound so very sure of himself — and , now that she came to look at it , the wallet she was handing over so meekly did have a distinctly masculine air … |
| 11 | It must be remembered that W. was not refusing all medical treatment — she was merely expressing the view that she wished to remain at Dr. M. 's clinic . |
| 12 | She was with a stranger and told friends that she intended to stay at the site as long as possible and then possibly go to Portsmouth . |
| 13 | I think that er one of the things that we had to examine at national level er and this was done erm after I became a full time officer , erm there 'd usually be a procedure in the national agreement er whereby first of all if we registered failure to agree at domestic level , erm with the management , the next stage was to draw in the district secretary . |
| 14 | He is 90 now , so deaf that we had to shout at him to be heard , so old that he speaks only Turkish , the language of his oppressors . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm told the front rows in the Moore tragedy were so close that they had to bend at the waist to get in ’ , said Akpata . |
| 16 | The steps led downwards , there were crumbling stone walls , so that they had to clutch at narrow ropes sunk into the wall at intervals . |
| 17 | ‘ We were very alarmed when Sean told us that they needed to look at you again , and you did n't ring a second time … so we were afraid … . ’ |
| 18 | Mahmoud had a case that morning in the Mixed Tribunals and Owen wanted to send a letter to England so they agreed to meet at noon at the Post Office . |
| 19 | Once they had to stop at a red light , and they heard Donald whimpering . |
| 20 | In fact these lectures offered an elegant and lucid exposition of educational theories and assumptions ( he had been exercised by this topic since the early forties ) and although he failed to arrive at any conclusions he suggested that none could in any case be reached . |
| 21 | Her fairy-tale prince , so handsome that it hurt to look at him . |
| 22 | No sooner had the CIG started work than it began to chafe at its restrictions and sought authority to start operating espionage networks abroad . |
| 23 | Lamb had finally yielded to an invitation from Coleridge to travel west , and wrote at the end of June to say that he hoped to arrive at Stowey the following weak . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's right , ’ I said , pleased that he seemed to understand at last . |
| 25 | His face was smiling and , when you tapped the head , it rocked on a concealed axle so that he seemed to chortle at the absurdity of human antics . |
| 26 | But I knew that it would be difficult to persuade Jimbo that he had to work at the exercises : yet if the treatment were to succeed , it had to be him — Jimbo himself — who , in the end , would reopen the pathway of nerves between brain and muscle . |
| 27 | He had been hurt so much by life that he had to laugh at it and there was not a trace of bitterness in him . |
| 28 | It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it . |
| 29 | Bettino Craxi , whose leadership of the Socialist Unity Party was under serious challenge [ see p. 39114 ] , announced on Nov. 7 that he proposed to resign at an unspecified date and suggested Prime Minister Giuliano Amato as his successor . |
| 30 | LIKE Neil Kinnock , Des Wilson once said that he wanted to retire at 50 . |