Example sentences of "thing [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lorry was hired to carry our furniture and other belongings to Fontanellato , not an easy thing to arrange at that time as there were few local drivers willing to travel so far . |
| 2 | It has so far only managed to produce a sample P5 running at 40MHz — just two thirds of the 66MHz speed Intel intended — and can not get the thing to work at a faster rate . |
| 3 | ‘ Another thing to remember at the interview , ’ said Sukey pointedly , ‘ is to let Perdita do the talking . |
| 4 | It is a costly and difficult thing to aim at but I still think it is right . |
| 5 | It is one thing to look at an ill person and say that they are out of balance . |
| 6 | The next thing to look at is the monitor . |
| 7 | In all In in all fairness they 're not in my opinion , not exactly the greatest thing to look at in the country are they ? |
| 8 | He wrote in his Testament not long before he died : " While I was living in sin , it seemed a very bitter thing to look at lepers ; but the Lord Himself led me among them , and I had compassion on them . |
| 9 | Buster felt that he could make the vehicle — which was a very dismal thing to look at — a real sort of Bonny and Clyde affair . |
| 10 | Well golf clubs erm I mean it 's a bit limited advertising in a in a market er on this particular thing to look at . |
| 11 | This was a typically fashionable thing to do at this the height of the ‘ Picturesque Movement ’ , when romantic thoughts could be conjured in an instant by the sight of a castle , but the reality was of course a different matter . |
| 12 | ‘ That was a damn silly thing to do at this time of night . ’ |
| 13 | If you hike down here ( a much wiser thing to do at this time of year ) the Grand Canyon Department of Arbitrary Silly Rules and Regulations have erected signs that read ‘ Do not go beyond this point without water . ’ |
| 14 | We may defensively claim that it was the right thing to do at the time . |
| 15 | Many students told me that they only joined the League because it was the correct thing to do at middle school and at university they maintained their membership for the social functions the League organised , such as outings and dances . |
| 16 | Managing nicely seemed an odd thing to do at the north end of the Reach . |
| 17 | Because we believe very very strongly wi that with an organization like yours , where each piece of work that you do is slightly different from other pieces of work , to have er a single m way , an approach to following the work er is , is really not , not the right er thing to do at all . |
| 18 | I picked out a selection , deciding on even numbers only because it seemed like a sensible thing to do at the time . |
| 19 | It was a reasonable thing to do at the time as the fund was in surplus . |
| 20 | Opposition Members are desperately struggling to find every conceivable thing to carp at , because they know that the scheme will be relatively speedy to introduce and that it will work effectively . |
| 21 | But an important thing to recognise at the outset is that knowing about oneself can never be a matter of ‘ mere information ’ . |
| 22 | I mean , chicken-pox is such a stupid thing to have at my age . ’ |
| 23 | Me thing to have at the bed end you know |
| 24 | It is the work that is the most important thing to learn at school , with arithmetic being favoured by a three-to-one margin over being good . |
| 25 | Erm , maybe that would be the more fair thing to say at the end of the day . |
| 26 | The most important thing to note at present is that any strong syllable will have as its peak one of the vowel phonemes ( or possibly a triphthong ) listed in Chapter 3 , but not . |