Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [adv] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By that stage , you should feel totally at home with your new diet and confident that you can maintain it as a lifestyle with ease in the place of your former diet . |
| 2 | I thought it odd at the time that he should feel so at home there . ’ |
| 3 | The older climbs often take steep cracks so gritstone aficionados should feel more at home . |
| 4 | Now in some respects what I think should happen , is we should , yeah we should not be negative about going on the course , but in terms of the financial implications I 'm very worried about that and I think there is a erm , there is some need for the client to say , that if he wants us to go on this course we 're happy to go on it , but that he should look seriously at financing and he plus it should have been in the tender document . |
| 5 | If you must walk alone at night keep a look out for potential ambush spots and cross the road to avoid them . |
| 6 | Corporate managers ' discretion will be legitimated since their power will be severely limited by the requirement that all their decisions must aim simply at profit-maximization . |
| 7 | Assignment is a relation in the technical sense , but as it is a unary relation , many readers may feel more at ease if we speak of it as a property ( the two ways of speaking are of course completely inter-convertible ) . |
| 8 | But you 'll feel more at home in your own kit , so bring it along . |
| 9 | You 'll feel more at home when I 've introduced you to the rest of the team , everyone except Niall anyway . ’ |
| 10 | The more cautious analytical corporate financier might feel more at home in an accountancy firm , but the wheeler-dealer type should opt for a bank . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll come again at noon , then we 'll have all settled . |
| 12 | ‘ We ( the Design Department ) got asked by the Producer of Blue Peter to come up with a full-size Dalek that children could build easily at home for about 10/6d . |
| 13 | We 'd study better at home , ’ Sheila complained crossing the fields . |
| 14 | I had a sneaking feeling he 'd do well at Scum , Hughes is the ideal partner for him . |
| 15 | First off , this is a public list for Leeds supporters ; if you 're not interested in Leeds United , I think you 'd feel more at home elsewhere . |
| 16 | First , however , he had to ask Isobel if he could alter the lighting in the garage , so that he could see better at night . |
| 17 | So I thought I 'd spend tomorrow at home clearing up and reading the newspapers and engaging in some spiritually uplifting reading . |
| 18 | I worked really hard which meant I got tired and could sleep better at night . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd go home at night and my girlfriend Paula would say : ‘ I hate you , I ca n't stand you any more . ’ |
| 20 | If I started again I would like to have … ( 1 ) a ghost writer , not for my speeches but for my letters and statements : he would be the kind of person who could take the Ministry 's policy and translate it into the kind of words I would use ; ( 2 ) perhaps an economist ; and ( 3 ) a general investigator whose job it would be to brief me so that I could participate intelligently at Cabinet Committees and in Cabinet on subjects outside my own Department . |
| 21 | Many of the latter were young , in their twenties , and included ‘ yuppies ’ in City and financial institutions who might not smoke a lot but took the attitude that they would smoke more at work if people pressured them over their habit . |
| 22 | So you would feel equally at home there with a group of friends on a night out or just popping in for a quiet drink and a chat . |
| 23 | But one of the places where he would feel most at home is the room in which a vital part of the process that brought New Scientist to you last week was carried out . |
| 24 | A piece of furniture , she considered , which would look right at home in her apartment . |
| 25 | The trap takes the form of an apparently harmless conservatory which would look more at home on a patio than adjacent to the stuffed gorillas . |
| 26 | The apparatus is controlled by a console would look more at home in a nuclear power station or in the cockpit of a jumbo jet . |
| 27 | Many of these are not to our taste , but there 's no doubt that even those items that would look more at home in a flower arrangement have been designed and coloured with fishkeeping in mind . |
| 28 | The Covent Garden scene is all gorblimey corn , and Shaw 's reinstated passages , bridging between scenes , seem like an excuse for the kind of business — Eliza running along stairs or surrounded by dancing couples — that would look more at home in a sixties musical . |
| 29 | A 6ft , 20-stone biker , Tiny would look more at home on the set of a Mad Max film but instead gives his time to help the Dreamflight team every year . |
| 30 | Not that he 'd be out of place — on the contrary , he would look entirely at home among the mountains — but the very notion of spending time with him was enough to horrify her . |