Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why should I want to look at pictures of you stuck in little cracks ? |
| 2 | Ca n't be certain , but it looks as if Allied Signal Corp chief executive Lawrence Bossidy has ruled himself out of the running for the top job at IBM Corp : he says that although he is ‘ flattered to be mentioned as a candidate for chairman of another company , I intend to remain at Allied-Signal to complete the job I came here to do . ’ |
| 3 | When I married my wife Mary , however , I planned to stay at home for a while . |
| 4 | I only remembered it when I leaned forward or when I tried to sleep at night . |
| 5 | I promised to stay at Morton school until Christmas , when St John would be able to find another teacher . |
| 6 | ‘ I want to play at Liverpool , and I 'm glad I 'm back in the squad , which must mean I will come into consideration . |
| 7 | Now I want to look at teachers ' lives from a particular point of view. : that what our hypothetical observer is actually witnessing is people coping , in a great variety of ways , with stress . |
| 8 | when I want to look at prices . |
| 9 | Now I want to look at pattern knitting with the colour changer . |
| 10 | Now I want to look at Southgate 's horse . ’ |
| 11 | After Corrections I joined Picture Group in 1981 and for some reason I ended up doing a lot of work for them in the ghettos , guns , drugs and things like that ; it became my forte and I came to feel at ease in this kind of environment . |
| 12 | However , after some time had passed , and I had exhausted the tasks which could usefully be achieved with the implements I happened to have at hand , Miss Kenton was evidently still outside . |
| 13 | I turned to look at Sam but to my surprise he was not there . |
| 14 | I like to sleep at night , and applying " scorched earth " tactics in selling OTC stocks to some unsuspecting people makes me cringe . |
| 15 | I like to look at photos like that , but I do n't want to appear in them . |
| 16 | But I like to walk at night . |
| 17 | ‘ This summer I decided to stay at home and present a jazz/big band summer course , similar to the programme at Appel Farm , having seen the progress made by the pupils in America . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I started to look at things a bit differently after that , and it certainly seems to have worked for me . ’ |
| 19 | I was never away off the island until er I started to work at Holland . |
| 20 | ‘ So there am I spending the rest of that day with you in my thoughts , and getting barely any rest from thoughts of you when I try to sleep at night either . ’ |
| 21 | I keep my bag in the boot of the car and I try to play at Saltford twice a week . |
| 22 | Oh I see that , that 's how you remember , oh the other day I went to look at Asda you know , put my card in the machine and my mind just went totally blank , do you think I could remember the dam number . |
| 23 | And although I infinitely preferred a walk across the corner of the field to the privy by the duck pond , to the four flights of stairs I had to descend at Reine , with a com-munal Turkish crouch at the end of it , I wondered how Otto would adjust to outside facilities . |
| 24 | I had to stay at home , but Will told me all about it when he came back . |
| 25 | For I had to stay at home and look after me farm for . |
| 26 | Wendy went to Glasgow and had a direct trip ; I had to change at Rugby on the way north and at Carstairs coming south . |
| 27 | ‘ And I prefer to stay at Les Hiboux . |
| 28 | I continued to look at Taff as he cleaned around the inside of the mess tin with his forefinger and drawing the finger across his lips with a slow gesture . |
| 29 | ‘ It was n't that , it was the amount of time I have to spend at home … helping with Jennifer , ’ she added . |
| 30 | It will be seen that I have to arrive at figures in respect of damages in this case under a number of heads . |