Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should not pause to sniff at the scents of other dogs , at the same time remaining very responsive to its owner 's instructions , adjusting its stance slightly , perhaps , to show off its finer points . |
| 2 | ‘ We should not have come at all . ’ |
| 3 | Consideration of discretion and of the roles of ‘ street-level bureaucrats ’ must also involve looking at the implications of professionalism for implementation . |
| 4 | Mining settlements must also have existed at Dolaucothi and in the vicinity of Pentre in Flintshire , in association with the known reserves of gold and lead respectively , while a site at Carsington has recently been tentatively identified as Lutudarum , the headquarters of a mining company of that name , which operated the lead mines of the Peak District . |
| 5 | Birdwatchers should also stop to look at The Stack on Scarlett Point — a favourite with seabirds . |
| 6 | We should also try to eat at their pace , not ours , and not allow them to feel that they are holding us up . |
| 7 | ‘ We should really have started at the foundry , ’ said Wilcox , ‘ since that 's the first stage of our operation . |
| 8 | They clinked their glasses ; then Martin , walking towards the long window , said , ‘ It 's a good job I did n't become engaged ; you should n't get married at a time like this . ’ |
| 9 | Anyway , ’ she reminded him indignantly , ‘ you should n't need keeping at bay . |
| 10 | We should n't have met at the apartment . |
| 11 | He should n't have grabbed her , should n't have shouted at her . |
| 12 | ‘ Or perhaps I should n't have come at all . |
| 13 | ‘ I should n't have looked at the paper — ’ |
| 14 | Courses leading to masters ' degrees are normally designed to fulfil one of the following objectives : to follow directly from the study undertaken at first degree level ; to enable graduates of one discipline to acquire knowledge of another related discipline or subject area ; to develop and apply the student 's first degree knowledge in a related specialized area ; or to relate and synthesize a number of disciplines which the student may not have studied at first degree level . |
| 15 | Fragment A is more difficult to analyse as the evidence is incomplete and the habit of keeping to a set rate of progress may not have evolved at the A stage of composition ; but it could have been completed between June 1758 and April 1759 , in a shorter or longer time depending on whether he wrote one verse or three each day . |
| 16 | The old order may not have changed at the front but there are encouraging signs for the future further down the field . |
| 17 | Or you may not have thought at all . |
| 18 | We can not expect to arrive at consensus easily — there are a lot of things which may not seem to fit at all — but we can at least want to find out what is in common before worrying about what appears to contradict . |
| 19 | The most successful perhaps were those acquired as teacher training colleges , such as Wentworth Castle and Wentworth Woodhouse which , without such use , might not have survived at all . |
| 20 | The people who possessed the skills to make metal might not need to work at producing their own food — someone else could grow food for them . |
| 21 | You 'll just get to look at the document you ca n't work |
| 22 | ‘ Then we 'll just have to stop at the first one , ’ Isabel declared . |
| 23 | Hello seven three one eight , no Roger 's off duty at the moment it 's Chris here erm , he should be , hang on I 'll just have to look at the watch roster and check up on precisely what his movements are , erm just look through tomorrow and I can find the right page in the roster here , er , two thir yeah , he 'll be on tower , so he 'll be in first thing tomorrow from about seven , seven o'clock onwards . |
| 24 | For what it was worth I asked her if she knew of a Ewen Mackay who might once have lived at Otters ' Bay , but she shook her head |
| 25 | Well I told my lot to whatever they do on a Saturday , put it down on Monday and that way it 'll automatically get paid at time and a half . |
| 26 | Well they 'll probably have to put at least the bone in there , it 's a bone graft . |
| 27 | And I 'll I 'll probably have to look at a you know s Cath and I have to sit down and say , Look for every course , this needs to happen . |
| 28 | One might also consider looking at the range of employment/unemployment experience and labour market participation and activity rates , although international comparisons of unemployment are notoriously difficult to make given the variation in definitions and data collection . |
| 29 | " You might even want to teach at the end of it . |
| 30 | If the money had been spent on social and industrial problems then the American economy might well have grown at a higher rate than it has , and technological innovation might have been more rapid in areas which directly contribute to trade . |