Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm so so you er may want to stop at eleven o'clock , or ten to eleven or whatever and watch the video . |
| 2 | Interest cover , for example , would not be so appropriate — the shareholder would be more interested in dividends and may need to look at alternative investment opportunities as well as the possibility of selling their shares at this stage given the results of Belper . |
| 3 | The coding frame for each question should have been constructed at the pilot stage except for open questions where we may need to look at all responses to decide on groupings . |
| 4 | It may need hosing at high pressure to get rid of any surface slime . |
| 5 | I must prepare to say at this point that I have a special report on the Colville Road area to er er committee , not just on the now but I think we probably need to have further consultation with regard to the needs in that area . |
| 6 | Both documents seek to identify the skills and understandings which their respective subjects should seek to achieve at different stages of schooling . |
| 7 | In this chapter , I should like to look at some of the ‘ social meanings ’ we give to arts and science today . |
| 8 | She seemed pulled out , elongated by it , so that her shoes , her new bronze slippers with rosettes on the toes that Aunt Emily had said she must keep hidden at all times if possible since legs and feet were highly indecent , seemed far further away than the five and a half feet she knew separated them from the crown of her head . |
| 9 | The orders were indeed issued , and the attack should have begun at 4.30 a.m. on August 26 . |
| 10 | NHS dietician Helen Marshall did n't see why she should have to retire at 60 . |
| 11 | She should have started at seven — and found the body almost immediately . ’ |
| 12 | Erm even if we 're wrong in that then they should have looked at alternative positions within the company which did n't require you to drive erm that 's the basic advice at the moment . |
| 13 | In Wallshire Ltd v Aarons [ 1989 ] 1 EGLR 147 , it was argued that a surveyor conducting a rent review as an expert should have looked at more evidence of comparable lettings . |
| 14 | As he explained : ‘ It was not a play that should have toured at all . |
| 15 | There was 110 possible reason why he should have wished at that stage to foreclose his options between December and January , or January and the spring . |
| 16 | There had been rather a mystery as to why he should have died at that particular time . |
| 17 | Nor can it explain why indeed the change should have happened at all : why did the speakers not simply retain /a:/ ? |
| 18 | " Then it must have rained at last . " |
| 19 | Mechanics everywhere must have cringed at that scene . |
| 20 | She supposed she must have risen at some point to light a candle on the mantlepiece . |
| 21 | Rather , they recognise that such ‘ nonstandard dialects are highly structured systems ’ and that ‘ the adult or child who uses these rules must have formed at some level of psychological organisation clear concepts of ‘ tense marker ’ , ‘ verb phrase ’ , ‘ rule ordering ’ , ‘ sentence embedding ’ , ‘ pronoun ’ and many other grammatical categories which are essential parts of any logical system ’ ( ibid. p. 45 ) . |
| 22 | It must have looked at one time as though I 'd follow the family tradition and end up permanently on a farm . |
| 23 | He must have looked at both of them a dozen times in the first two minutes . |
| 24 | Support for the family against Gloucester must have seemed at best futile , at worst likely to precipitate the slide into factional conflict which the political community was most anxious to avoid . |
| 25 | Support for the family against Gloucester must have seemed at best futile , at worst likely to precipitate the slide into factional conflict which the political community was most anxious to avoid . |
| 26 | Although we do not have a satisfactory explanation for the U/Pb fractionation , it must have occurred at shallow depths in the mantle , near a spreading ridge ; and the resulting enriched source regions have since remained fixed relative to the migrating lithosphere . |
| 27 | It was not the intention , of course , that all of this should come to pass at one stroke , nor is it clear that it can ever wholly come to pass . |
| 28 | No doubt with a passenger in the back the trim would be sufficient , but the sink rate might need watching at that speed . |
| 29 | I think we might need to look at that one very carefully to see whether it adds anything to the er criteria . |
| 30 | If I move this out of the way cos you 'll need to get at Sorry . |