Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They get it into their heads that their fund-raising dinner for Hypothermic Pensioners In High Rise Blocks In Portsmouth will fall apart at the seams if Dillie Keane is n't there . |
| 2 | ‘ In other words you could n't bear the thought that there might just be one female in a hundred-mile radius who did n't fall apart at the seams every time you deigned to smile in her direction , ’ she spat back . |
| 3 | Even a pious man like Jovellanos could feel bitterly at the attempts of the Inquisition to sabotage his plans for establishing a modern technical institute at Gijon . |
| 4 | By definition they do not look backwards at the kinds of demographic transformations with which various societies have already coped . |
| 5 | So perhaps we should look harder at the plants we keep with out fish . |
| 6 | We will all look carefully at the conclusions that it draws from its work and from the evidence submitted to it . |
| 7 | Most haulage businesses will probably look carefully at the prospects in Europe when reviewing new market potential . |
| 8 | A Scottish Prison Service spokesman said it would look carefully at the recommendations . |
| 9 | If a customer 's circumstances change adversely for reasons beyond the customer 's control , the finance company will look sympathetically at the circumstances and will try , subject to any restrictions placed upon it by the Consumer Credit Act 1974 , to reach an accommodation with the customer to pay off the outstanding balance in a practicable manner . |
| 10 | There will be other readers who may look wistfully at the attractions of religious faith but are restrained by the folklore and fashions of what they suppose to be a current scientific philosophy . |
| 11 | Let us look then at the propositions which earned these encomia . |
| 12 | Those of us who are involved with the courts should look closely at the options available , specifically in the sentencing of cases involving violence . |
| 13 | And he said that he hoped manufacturers would look again at the instructions to see whether they could be made clearer . |
| 14 | I hope that the Secretary of State will look again at the figures , instead of looking at them superficially as he has done , to see that , in the past five years , the incidence of passenger train collisions has increased by 40 per cent . |
| 15 | It makes one look again at the plants in one 's garden and wonder what secret messages are being passed in ways too subtle for our human senses to grasp . |
| 16 | We have also decided that we will look again at the costs of refurbishment . |
| 17 | We shall look briefly at the features of this motion in Section 22.7 . |
| 18 | We shall look briefly at the issues involved to fully understand these points . |
| 19 | Certainly Mr Lamont did not perform well at the hustings ; arguably his Budget last month did not in retrospect maximise the opportunities , limited though they were . |
| 20 | He and Beryl and Bridget could go there at the weekends and they could all be there together for Christmas . |
| 21 | The leisurewear industry would come apart at the seams , literally , without this indispensable fastening . |
| 22 | He could exhibit a saint-like submissiveness , become a mere servant of art , willing to learn from anyone ; he would sit patiently at the bedsides of the sick and dying , painting unhappy men and women and feeling awe before peasant earth-mothers , but he could never be coerced into doing anything against his will . |
| 23 | The club will open only at the weekends , but the organisers eventually hope to extend the service to seven days . |
| 24 | It was only Sunday services but er we did occasionally have , cos you do n't get a wedding every day , but we did sing occasionally at the weddings , the biggest service was at Easter when there was quite a performance at Easter yes Joh Johnny he was a he was in the choir and he 's , there was another woman that might be interested a Mrs in Street during the fourteen war they used to have the Red Cross collection and they 'd organize processions round round the streets collecting for the Red Cross and they used to knit socks and send them out and all that sort of thing |
| 25 | Indeed , musicians argue amongst themselves as to preferred gauges in any one set , so the blame does not lie entirely at the manufacturers ' door . |