Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No matter where you finally wind up in the advertising business , you will want to work at some stage in an agency to gain real insight into advertising and acquire first-rate skills ( and , hopefully , reputation ) that puts wheels under your career . |
| 2 | It may need hosing at high pressure to get rid of any surface slime . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So you do need to look at that page very carefully and I still get tied up sometimes and have to do a few crossings out . |
| 5 | The bar chart that was the result of the survey we did you need to look at that piece of work and ask yourself a question , is this piece of work the best thing I have ever done ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The LEA will need to look at other routes as well . |
| 8 | You will need to spray at three day intervals at least three or four times , but preferably over a period of several weeks to control any new pests as soon as they hatch , before they can reproduce . |
| 9 | In fact , you do not actually need to price at that level ; the rival just has to believe that you will if it enters the market . |
| 10 | No doubt with a passenger in the back the trim would be sufficient , but the sink rate might need watching at that speed . |
| 11 | Both documents seek to identify the skills and understandings which their respective subjects should seek to achieve at different stages of schooling . |
| 12 | In accordance with the terms of the contract , you can choose to retire at any time after the age of 60 , when the policy will buy you a regular pension plus the option of taking part of the money as a tax-tree lump sum . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | At recent rates about 80 per cent of married women can expect to work at some time in their married lifetime ( Martin and Roberts 1984 ) . |
| 15 | If one assumes that any paddler runs a risk of shoulder damage when the shoulder angle is forced beyond 180 degrees , then a canoeist can choose to paddle at high risk with an arm position close to the limit or at low risk . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Erm conversely I I think we would want to look at individual proposals as they as they came forward , and see what landscaping proposals they have and er how they intend to mitigate any perhaps adverse er landscape er implications . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He decided that school was not somewhere he would like to go at this point because he looked pretty bad . |
| 20 | Thermoluminescence is emitted because crystal lattices contain defects , and electrons produced by the ionising radiation may become trapped at one type of defect ( a ‘ trap ’ ) . |
| 21 | Some may become trapped at new sites , extravasate , and form secondary tumours . |
| 22 | Do you like looking at those pictures ? |
| 23 | Can we keep nibbling at this Chairman , can a letter be written to say that we 're , we 're rather concerned about this methodology , and psychology of this ? |
| 24 | Somebody , somebody said finances , I think it 's very important and I 'd like to look at financial implication and see if we can do something about it . |
| 25 | Okay and perhaps erm perhaps you 'd also like to l would you like to look at this side of things as well ? |
| 26 | Even if you have no interest in the play Henry V itself , the comparison helps you to learn about eighteenth-century attitudes , by providing information and insights you can then use to look at eighteenth-century drama generally . |
| 27 | Oh I mean I I after we after er we may never see look at each other again so my my job is to is to say right I can forward your name to and say look you know er I will make one or two points this guy er needs to be concentrated on , not as an exception , but you know because we 've taken fliers with people before you 've been very successful . |
| 28 | And I would like to say at this point I was very disappointed that we did n't have any other conservatives with us in the afternoon . |
| 29 | Blake was not averse to entering such places , but could think of a number of things he 'd prefer to do at this time . |
| 30 | They would move to buy at low prices from those sellers who have not discovered that some buyers are paying high prices . |