Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [verb] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In this chapter , I should like to look at some of the ‘ social meanings ’ we give to arts and science today . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As he explained : ‘ It was not a play that should have toured at all . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There had been rather a mystery as to why he should have died at that particular time . |
| 9 | Nor can it explain why indeed the change should have happened at all : why did the speakers not simply retain /a:/ ? |
| 10 | Mechanics everywhere must have cringed at that scene . |
| 11 | She supposed she must have risen at some point to light a candle on the mantlepiece . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | He must have looked at both of them a dozen times in the first two minutes . |
| 14 | No doubt with a passenger in the back the trim would be sufficient , but the sink rate might need watching at that speed . |
| 15 | I think we might need to look at that one very carefully to see whether it adds anything to the er criteria . |
| 16 | And you might like to look at these later , these later . |
| 17 | No , I 'll have to leave at half eight get there for about quarter to nine nine o'clock |
| 18 | Yeah , I 'll have to work , I 'll have to start at half four as in the week |
| 19 | Erm so we 've maybe got a dozen to do for the service , and I 'll have to look at that and and go from there . |
| 20 | They said oh well we 'll have to look at that you know |
| 21 | Had Theodora not been her father 's daughter , and therefore beautifully bred , she might have snorted at such palpable idiocy |
| 22 | ... But no , for he had said her heart was badly damaged , death might have come at any time . |
| 23 | I can stand in front of the screen , I can look at the simulations , I can stop them whenever I want to stop them and look at them , it gives me ideas about how the buildings might have looked at that time and it gives me a whole range of variations as to as to what can be done in terms of their reconstructions . |
| 24 | Earlier this season , Haslemere might have collapsed at this stage , but they came back to equalise with the best goal of the game . |
| 25 | There are only minor things erm , Chris suggested changes to the procedures , just tidying them up as we might have expected at this stage really erm . |
| 26 | On occasion , it might refuse to work at all and we find ourselves longing for the days of youth when it would stand at attention regardless of any identifiable sexual stimulus . |
| 27 | Blake was not averse to entering such places , but could think of a number of things he 'd prefer to do at this time . |
| 28 | Er in order that the time could remain set at that without any departing to you know , er feelings of mistrust or anything else . |
| 29 | They were exactly the sort you 'd expect to see at this kind of activity : mostly middle-aged or older Americans or Germans in running shoes , with a few earnest Guardian readers thrown in for local colour . |
| 30 | Certain ancient stains along the approach corridor — which resembled the rib cage of a very long whale — had suggested that those ribs could clash shut at any sign of unwelcome visitors , imprisoning or crushing intruders . |