Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While some may come to admire the Guercino or the girandoles , many people , including children , may enjoy looking at the old or not-so-old toys , or even a collection of fifty years of milk bottles from the local dairy . |
| 2 | It was also suggested that theologians may need to look at the theology of play in order to gain a more positive understanding of the entertainment role of the media . |
| 3 | This review process needs to be carried out on a fairly regular basis , perhaps every six months , and it should include looking at the current state of the market to see if there are any new developments that can be applied . |
| 4 | At a running start you should plan to start at the downwind end . |
| 5 | You should begin exercising at the correct pace . |
| 6 | You should try to look at the situation objectively and philosophically , and , if you can , keep a sense of humour . |
| 7 | In a design of this kind , where the flowers and leaves are built up in layers , you should try to look at the outline that will be visible ( in this case , the outer leaves ) , and make sure that they are lying at pleasing angles . |
| 8 | The functions of the organisation should therefore be kept in mind in data analysis , even though in principle data analysis should attempt to look at the organisation independent of any processes . |
| 9 | We should have eaten at the pub . |
| 10 | I said , if you 'd have said what you should have said at the bloody tribunal . |
| 11 | I think we should have said at the first the very first lesson , they just ploughed straight into did n't they ? |
| 12 | Perhaps I should have said at the beginning , although I hope it 's obvious , that the speaker of this poem is , of course , coming back to the town where he was born . |
| 13 | The tall beans should have gone at the back . |
| 14 | The fire which should have flared at the entrance was a pile of wet ash and the oil-topped torches were extinguished . |
| 15 | It is hardly surprising that he should have jumped at the chance of establishing his ‘ Samba school ’ in Paris . |
| 16 | I think I should have stayed at the old school where they had confidence in me . |
| 17 | We should have realized at the time that in the emergency of AD 196 there would not have been time to build walls round town defences . |
| 18 | If you really wanted to learn something you should have started at the top . |
| 19 | I should have screamed at the start — whenever the start could now be said to be . |
| 20 | idea of the theory , which is something that probably should have come at the beginning but it does n't matter too much . |
| 21 | Both groups should have reported at the end of 1982 , though engineering will take longer , and other subject groups will be set up in due course . |
| 22 | Then , alone there in his room , I began to laugh , as I should have laughed at the time . |
| 23 | The expectation that the new borrowings will be available , if required , must have existed at the balance sheet date and this expectation should be reviewed in the light of any post balance sheet events to ensure it remains reasonable on the date the financial statements are approved by the directors . |
| 24 | It was easy to imagine what relief the miners must have felt at the end of a long day 's work in those conditions when they saw the mouth of the tunnel framing the daylight before them . |
| 25 | But they 're going to develop a ride which will recreate how it must have felt at the time . |
| 26 | It screwed me up thinking how the invalid 's hopes must have soared at the sound of my entry , and how she must now be falling into deeper and deeper misery because of the silence and the nothing happening . |
| 27 | I rather think that the RN instructors on my course must have suffered at the hands of the Customs on returning from a foreign tour as they really gave us a hard time . |
| 28 | You 're laughing bravely , it must have hurt at the time . |
| 29 | I pulled out the stool which Billy must have sat at the desk on , and began to rifle through things in no particular order . |
| 30 | And new Manager , Denis Smith , must have exploded at the way his defenders dillied and dallied and never got to the ball on time . |