Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , although many babies pull off hats , socks and booties in their first year , they do n't really try to dress or undress at this stage . |
| 2 | I did not know what to say or do at this moment but just said ‘ Thy will be done ’ . |
| 3 | There were things all three of them knew , and things all three of them were wondering , but no one cared to question or acknowledge at this hour . |
| 4 | Recognised junior equipment is also available to buy or hire at many RYA centres . |
| 5 | with , with my granddaughter , she , she did the same s she used to go and babysit at this girl 's house and she fe felt , she was only fourteen , and she felt sorry for her and she 'd go and babysit every night she 'd go and babysit and er but she used to b sit up in the bedroom , she never ever went down the sitting room thinking that the child 's mother was either down in the sitting room or just going out for a short while and coming back and then eventually they put erm a bed up in the child 's bedroom for Denise to stay there over nights and Pearl did n't worry at all , well she knew , knew where , at least she knew where and er this girl was bringing men back down in the sitting room every night , three or four , sometimes ten men in a night during the night ! |
| 6 | Not only me , but poor Dave ( Paich ) too : we 'd just sit there and look at each other and go , ‘ This is wrong , ’ trying to get somebody to interpret our music . |
| 7 | Let us go and look at that tree . |
| 8 | And it 's quite interesting to , to go and look at that road now and see just what it 's like . |
| 9 | ‘ And I would ask you , Mr Stevens , to turn around and look at that Chinaman . ’ |
| 10 | I 'll go and look at that potato thing and the meat and then I 'll see . |
| 11 | ‘ Let's go and look at that henhouse . |
| 12 | And I 've got ta try and look at some poetry . |
| 13 | ‘ I need to go and look at this furniture for the house , ’ she admitted . |
| 14 | ‘ But the only way we can find that out will be to go and look at this mistletoe , and on the way you can tell me more about Miss Miggs . ’ |
| 15 | There was also mild throat-clearing as Mr Major strode off towards the largest car ferry in Europe with the words : ‘ Let's go and look at this boat ! ’ |
| 16 | Patrick you know where I would like to go and look at this thing we have |
| 17 | A member entitled to attend and vote at this meeting may appoint a proxy or proxies to attend and , on a poll , vote instead of him or her . |
| 18 | In the static methods , changes in the temperature dependence of an intensive property , such as density or heat capacity are followed and measurements are carried out slowly , to allow the sample to equilibrate and relax at each observation temperature . |
| 19 | ( This is called ‘ open ’ form , for the piece can begin and end at any place . ) |
| 20 | He is prone to speak and write at one moment as though motives were transparently obvious , and at the next as though they were inscrutable mysteries far beyond the range of his competence . |
| 21 | For ‘ prodigies ’ ( ‘ Mr Binyon 's young prodigies ’ ) surely we ought to read ‘ protégés ’ ; and then it becomes possible to wonder whether the jocularity about bulldogs does n't mark a wistful or resentful sense that Binyon and Sturge Moore ( ‘ old Neptune ’ ) might have done more with their respective protégés than merely set them to sniff and snarl at each other 's heels ; to question whether the two senior writers could not have established themselves — at least for some purposes — as masters of ateliers in which the two young hopefuls might have enrolled as apprentices . |
| 22 | ‘ You do encourage potential residents to call in and inspect at any time , do n't you ? ’ |
| 23 | Crows acrobated above a dead elm tree , ‘ The crow will tumble up and down/ at first sign of spring/ and in old trees around the town/brush winter from its wing . ’ |