Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know ’ , the Dowager Countess leaned close to Lucille , ‘ why some of them bother to dress at all ! |
| 2 | Ca n't be certain , but it looks as if Allied Signal Corp chief executive Lawrence Bossidy has ruled himself out of the running for the top job at IBM Corp : he says that although he is ‘ flattered to be mentioned as a candidate for chairman of another company , I intend to remain at Allied-Signal to complete the job I came here to do . ’ |
| 3 | Due to the publication schedule of ‘ Contact ’ I am actually writing this before the AGM , so I ca n't say anything more about it except that I intend to resign at it , due to the fact that I expect to be leaving the London area , so this will be the last time you will hear about London Branch from me . |
| 4 | In Chapter 5 I propose to look at a different aspect of metalinguistic politics : the way in which grammarians and linguists have projected a male/ female dichotomy on to the languages of the world , and their attempts to use grammar as a tactical weapon in the battle of the sexes . |
| 5 | That fact that in , a two years time I can go on to do the subjects that I want to do at the University in Scotland of my choice . |
| 6 | But what I want to do at my present moment is maintain my share of the business . |
| 7 | SIR — On July 28 , 1980 , Neil Kinnock told The Times : ‘ I want to retire at 50 , I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter , and sing in the choir . ’ |
| 8 | Erm now what I want to say at the very very end is a quick observation by Beatrix Campbell who wrote a book about the Cleveland er child sex abuse scandal which took place in the late 1980's . |
| 9 | I have suggested already that he is all The Dubliners combined — the lost child , the resigned girl , the lonely or frustrated man , the seeker of false comfort — now I want to come at his importance from a different angle . |
| 10 | What I want to get at through these quicksand-like words is how Coward shared and contributed to making the male homosexual structure of feeling that I and many other contemporary gay men find in his writing . |
| 11 | I want to get at my product knowledge up to scratch , I 'm going to get my sales skills up to scratch . |
| 12 | Every time the door opens I want to rush at it and out . |
| 13 | ‘ I want to play at Liverpool , and I 'm glad I 'm back in the squad , which must mean I will come into consideration . |
| 14 | If he and Devlin leave Portugal together I want to know at once . ’ |
| 15 | I want to look at the consequences of replacing these assumptions by two others : that we should concentrate on how mind might develop out of matter ; and that we should view the mind primarily as something which enables action . |
| 16 | ‘ I want to look at you without any clothes on , ’ she said suddenly as she watched him suck his chocolate . |
| 17 | It is this aspect of the craft that I want to look at first this month . |
| 18 | Now I want to look at some properties . |
| 19 | ‘ No , I want to look at the ponies with Ricky , ’ said Perdita , frantic not to miss a minute . |
| 20 | ‘ Supposing I say I want to look at you , to hear you talk in your funny English voice ? |
| 21 | I want to look at that stuff they 've got over there . |
| 22 | Now I want to look at pattern knitting with the colour changer . |
| 23 | Now I want to look at teachers ' lives from a particular point of view. : that what our hypothetical observer is actually witnessing is people coping , in a great variety of ways , with stress . |
| 24 | In this paper , I want to look at one kind of way in which some feminists have tried to conceptualise what it is for a woman to be ‘ autonomous ’ , and at the implications this has for ways of thinking about the human self . |
| 25 | Before I come to discuss the philosophical problems that are raised by this sort of account of self and autonomy , I want to look at what I have called its implicit politics ; and what I mean by this primarily is its possible consequences for the way in which women might think about their relationships to each other , and the way in which they might think about themselves . |
| 26 | Firstly I want to look at the idea of partnership . |
| 27 | The only , the only other thing I mean , the other thing which occurs in my mind and you know , as you know it is n't thought through and I want to look at what statistics are now available is I mean the question of increasing shortage of good product . |
| 28 | I want to look at some general features of the 28 projects that we are studying . |
| 29 | To herself she thought : I want to look at him again to see exactly what colour . |
| 30 | I 'm sorry to inflict this on you , Miss Glynn , but I want to look at the contents of the bureau amongst other things and it is better that a member of the family should be present . |