Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [noun sg] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunity may , therefore , exist for settlement at this stage and there is no doubt that it is preferable so to proceed than to achieve settlement at the door of the Court . |
| 2 | How much did you see of Schalk at that time ? |
| 3 | Therefore , I can assure my hon. Friend , who represents a rural constituency , that we have very much in mind the needs of rural post offices and we shall look with interest at any requests that they make to us for extending their liability to sell other services . |
| 4 | The world has invented many industrial processes which often create pollutants of a kind that do not occur in nature at all . |
| 5 | I do n't believe in sexuality at all . |
| 6 | He may also face the prospect of long-term hardship , if he can not return to work at all . |
| 7 | If you have a break in employment for two complete consecutive tax years , for whatever reason , you must pay full-rate contributions when you return to work : so , if you leave employment in March 1988 , you can return to work at any time up to 5th April 1990 and still pay the reduced rate ; but if you wait longer than that , you will have to pay the full rate . |
| 8 | Oh yeah , you 'd , some people would go for some very awkward colours , er green , which is a terrible colour , blue which is another awkward colour , I mean I even get people today asking for blue lamps for their bedrooms , erm I 'm sure they ca n't read in bed at that rate er , erm , it 's an awful colour to use erm and er I suppose |
| 9 | The Big Bang does n't happen in space at all . |
| 10 | Hence we form a naïve idea of it that does not correspond to reality at all ( 111 ) , based perhaps — I am now going beyond what Wittgenstein says — on some superficial resemblance between the grammar of ‘ I thought … ’ and ‘ I felt … ’ ( cf. 7 ) . |
| 11 | I think most policeman ca n't relate to sociology at all , because , you see , the way we 're taught everything is black and white : those who do bad should be punished , those who do good should be rewarded . |
| 12 | I mean a lot of people who live on the do n't go into town at all . |
| 13 | A corollary of the theory is that if only we were all experts at telepathy we could manage without language at all . |
| 14 | Erm d so what el Did you go to church at all , or anything like that ? |
| 15 | Do n't you go to sleep at all ? |
| 16 | Yeah but housewives do n't usually go to sleep at this time in the afternoon . |
| 17 | The notation of a classification scheme is important , and in the context of the knowledge explosion one requirement is that this notation should be " hospitable " , that is , that it should allow for addition at any point in the scheme in the light of new knowledge and new concepts . |
| 18 | Strange how certain areas seem to call out to me , wrote Harsnet , and working on them does n't seem like work at all , more like simply breathing . |
| 19 | That would n't seem like work at all to me . " |
| 20 | — it did n't seem like light at all . |
| 21 | Perhaps it will never come near land at all . |
| 22 | If you do get into trouble at this stage , it is likely to take one of three forms : |
| 23 | For centuries the lane served no doubt as a cattle-road , but why did it come into existence at all , and when ? |
| 24 | Thus the purchase order is either an offer or a counter-offer , but in neither event does the contract come into existence at this stage . |
| 25 | It 's a other sites erm w would come into consideration at that at that time erm in the long term . |
| 26 | Sentences ( 2b ) and ( 2d ) do not come into consideration at all . |
| 27 | Well when I , I saw him come in door at this end and I thought oh well , I 'll follow them see if they 've gone back and they were sat , well it must have been behind the back |
| 28 | And he still practised sufficiently the ways of the Highland families to send his daughter to Inverness for as good an education as a girl could get within reach at that time . |
| 29 | They called the film they made about me Too Long a Winter , and I have to declare immediately that I do not care for winter at all , for neither mind nor body agrees with it . |
| 30 | I wrote a lot about gay politics during the seventies , including a book on it , but when I look back on it , I do n't actually talk about sex at all . |