Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] at [det] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | No doubt with a passenger in the back the trim would be sufficient , but the sink rate might need watching at that speed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He decided that school was not somewhere he would like to go at this point because he looked pretty bad . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Okay and perhaps erm perhaps you 'd also like to l would you like to look at this side of things as well ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Blake was not averse to entering such places , but could think of a number of things he 'd prefer to do at this time . |
| 16 | You could treat the fish with ‘ dips ’ out of the pond , but all you can hope to do at this point is to control the spread of secondary infections , such as ulcers and fungus and bacterial infections . |
| 17 | Now that Turkish eyes have turned eastward , and Greek ones northward , perhaps the two countries can stop glaring at each other . |
| 18 | But companies can stop giving at any time ; under the traditional system of covenants , they were committed to giving an annual donation for four years . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | The second is to test understanding by inviting someone else to summarize and check that their summary accords with the one you yourself would have given at that stage in the proceedings . |
| 21 | Clearly , any reasonable number of players can have to go at this game , taking it in turns to bat and bowl . |
| 22 | The alpine char we had already caught at 220 m , weighing around 220 g each , would not have registered at that depth . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A spokesman for Astra said he did not wish to comment at this stage . |
| 25 | Most criminals would have panicked at that moment . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Sometimes the similarity is hinted at in the question itself ; for example , you may have looked at another passage involving characterisation and this will guide you in looking at this one . |
| 29 | My first reaction to the resignations was that they were tantamount to an admission of guilt when , in fact , the Argentinians could have attacked at any time in the previous fifteen years . |
| 30 | ... But no , for he had said her heart was badly damaged , death might have come at any time . |