Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] at [adj] [noun] " 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 | A class doing a study on " water " , for instance , might need to give some attention to the history of water supplies in their area , or to look at past epidemics of cholera and typhoid , to prove that clean water is vital for good health . |
| 3 | It was agreed at the Hague to enlarge the Community to include Britain and others , to finance CAP by giving the EC its own resources and to look at new areas of co-operation in the economic and political fields . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They fail to keep him informed , and to advise at crucial times , such as takeovers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ … the main idea is that social phenomena are seen as existing in relation to each other , and continually developing in and through such relations so as to form at various phases contradictory forces that generate qualitatively new formations . |