Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 2 | They were going to the home of opera , to listen to some Verdi , Puccini and Donizetti ; and to see at first hand the fine art and architecture that he had studied and only previously heard about or seen in books . |
| 3 | Her assessment of me changed from one of total hostility to a slightly puzzled statement that my experience with these doctors , in her own words ‘ may prove , after all , not to have been a bad thing for this peculiar chap — half high principle and half unashamed pragmatism — to have been brought into personal dealings with this autocratic profession and to experience at first hand the kind of behaviour that has been driving Ministers of Health to despair for years ’ . |
| 4 | Even in the absence of information about place and time of original utterance , even in the absence of information about the speaker / writer and his intended recipient , it is often possible to reconstruct at least some part of the physical context and to arrive at some interpretation of the text . |
| 5 | This award will be used to fund a research visit to the USA in order to obtain archival data about the effects of this policy , to talk with public officials about the achievements and failings of their relocation programmes ; and to investigate at local level the similarities and differences between the American and British contexts . |
| 6 | Japan 's current-account surplus was now projected to reach US$92,400 million in 1992 ( compared with the previous OECD forecast of some $80,000 million ) and to stabilize at that level in 1993 . |
| 7 | Other rules while in the Gulf were , as far as possible , to move only at night , to observe rigid radio silence and to travel at maximum speed . |
| 8 | But to arrive at that moment , he wrote , it is necessary to be patient , it is necessary to hold back , it is often necessary to do nothing . |
| 9 | Gleizes and Metzinger , carried away by their enthusiasm for his art , went so far as to suggest at one point in Du Cubisme that Cubism was simply a development of his work : ‘ To understand Cézanne is to foresee Cubism . |