Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before people talk of Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals , they ought to look at the map and understand what they are saying . |
| 2 | Management ought to look at the work that you do and that you could be asked to do under any contractual ‘ flexibility ’ provisions before finally deciding upon the groups of people from which redundancy candidates will be sought . |
| 3 | A London grandmother was particularly troublesome because of her drinking sprees , but her granddaughter was expected to clean her front doorsteps every Saturday : ‘ the old bugger used to sit at the window and watch me clean 'em . |
| 4 | There used to be a long table and the head used to sit at the end of this table and so to see that you did n't leave off working she used to get the table cloth and always be pulling this table straight . |
| 5 | And we realized on reflection , had Freda have not volunteered early enough , another lady who used to work at the station played , u plays for Nigel when he does his gigs . |
| 6 | Yeah , well she used to work at the station in the offices . |
| 7 | There is a certain Asian anaesthetist who used to work at the City Hospital Maternity Unit . |
| 8 | Used to work at the laundry in Bonner Street . |
| 9 | Of many , in summertime we always used to stand at the top of the yards , you know , men and women . |
| 10 | ‘ Madame used to stand at the gate to the pavillon , looking down the lane into the rue Victorie , in the belief that Montaine 's absence could be accounted for . |
| 11 | I could see it from where Abu Khadra used to stand at the edge of his fields in Barqa , although few people knew where Barqa was . |
| 12 | We had to pick the bind out by hand , er the coal was all er sorted on the screens and er er a u u us lads , we used to stand at the side of the belts that were travelling round and tipping the coal into the wagons down below you see ? |
| 13 | Together with a couple of swing boats , this was all that remained of the travelling showman 's fair that used to appear at the feast . |
| 14 | And we used to get very worked up about it , and then we went down to fetch our wages , and the older ones were always going to complain , but this erm tt er son of the people , he used to look at the factory clock opposite , and it would be half past three , and he 'd said , Right , I 'll pay you till three o'clock , and we 'll make it right next week . |
| 15 | Georgia was looking at the bracelet the same way she used to look at the hill when she was five , she was in awe of it , it might be too strong for her . |
| 16 | bottle and erm they used to queue at the table that for the |
| 17 | Mm No that 's er making me jolly cross , not like myself I do n't do anything like , not as much as I used to do at the hall , I mean I used to do a lot as you know , but I , I know how much you have done , but nobody else knows |
| 18 | what we used to do at the gym ? |
| 19 | There were twenty five thousand , I , I would n't like to see twenty five thousand on that ground again , because I , I used to smoke at the time and we were packed that tight in the ground I could n't even get my hands down to my pockets to get a cigarette out , so the erm after the first few games they started to draw at home and then they seemed to lose the impetus and that they still held a good position in the league , but the following season Liverpool were in the second division at the time , and I , I went to that match and Walsall scored first through Colin and er , they went on to beat us six-one in the end . |
| 20 | Asking for the bloke who used to live at the house . |
| 21 | How would these damaged planes used to arrive at the airport ? |
| 22 | Used to pay at the council offices . |
| 23 | That was the main , but not the only cause of the subsequent riot , when the bonnie lieges , not a few ‘ in drink ’ as they used to say at the magistrate 's court , toppled the case over with the luckless , as well as legless leprechaun still inside . |
| 24 | ‘ The night is his hour , that 's what they used to say at the fairground . |
| 25 | As my grandad used to say at the end of a grand day like that , " That 's another one they ca n't take away from you . " |
| 26 | Now after the er there was a incident at erm the er engine shed , er the stabling of the locomotive was transferred away , erm and it used to travel at the end of the day over to the er or , or er engine shed , where it er stayed for the stayed for the night . |