Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My family think I should only eat at meal times , and only in small quantities , but I need more than that — my stomach rumbles all the time between meals . |
| 2 | But as well as cost , you must always look at quality . |
| 3 | The community must also look at ways to boost jobs and strengthen democracy . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , he felt that it was only correct that the recipient of such a gift should also feel at ease there , and indeed it very quickly became the ‘ home ’ of the Queen as well . |
| 5 | However inept or inefficient local government must inevitably appear at times , it does represent a vital element of Britain 's constitution and a defence , albeit imperfect perhaps , of democracy and freedom . |
| 6 | We must now look at section 433 of the Insolvency Act 1986 : |
| 7 | If it is only our climate which would prevent an expanded leisure industry from being successful , we should surely look at ways of doing something about it . |
| 8 | But now I think there 's a new feeling abroad that instead of trying to solve the poverty of third world countries , by providing them with aeroplanes , particularly for their armies and providing them with electricity generating plants , we should actually start at bottom ; we should start with the children , in providing medicines , in providing enough food , so that those children will grow up and will be able to fend for themselves , providing them with skills , providing them also with markets for the goods that they 'll produce . |
| 9 | I know , mm I think I 'll just stay at home . |
| 10 | ‘ If we might just look at clauses 3–8 , 17–19 , 28–29 , 56–58 , 103–105 , 130–134 … ’ |
| 11 | Sage is currently re-vamping the online help system to make it context sensitive , and I 'm hoping that they 'll also look at idiot proofing and the application of the Windows interface . |
| 12 | A high grade official might also keep at hand a jade sceptre ( ju-i ) with flattened head and curved handle of a kind used at court and commonly presented by an emperor to persons of distinction , and in addition a hat-stand with carved domed head mounted on a wooden stem and base set with jade . |
| 13 | Where a book might originally sell at £15 , Smith might buy it for £1.50 and sell it at £5.50 — a profit was turned , and the public benefited . |
| 14 | I have therefore devoted little space to the problem in this study , but those who feel that it is important might well look at Dr Johnson 's comments on Macbeth — he disliked ‘ the Butcher 's knife ’ — and also at the correspondence between Gerard Manley Hopkins and Robert Bridges . |
| 15 | It is therefore relevant to consider what might ultimately happen at Meadow House should the application be granted consent . |
| 16 | ‘ But you 'll never score at Wembley again , ’ I said , nodding at his leg . |
| 17 | I 'll never look at spaghetti as long as I live . |
| 18 | Since I 'd rather look at vegetation than at larch lap panels , I decided to try to cover the whole fence with a rich variety of climbers and wall plants . |
| 19 | Ah , he 'd rather work at home |
| 20 | Corbett could only shout at Ranulf to stay and do nothing before Selkirk took him at a canter out of the abbey . |
| 21 | He looked anything but gratified , and she could only marvel at Araminta 's inability to see how unwelcome was the good fortune that had come to him . |
| 22 | when did one team have two keepers sent-off in the same game … it could only happen at Hereford … |
| 23 | Which accusation nobody could ever level at Jeffrey Bernard . |
| 24 | And I believe that if none proves acceptable , he could even remain at Anfield on a week-to-week contract . |
| 25 | The precedents for this kind of poem go back to the seventeenth century , and one could usefully look at Pope 's Windsor Forest or Dyer 's Grongar Hill . |
| 26 | Mr Tudball told a meeting of the exchange 's ship-broking members they could either remain at Lloyd 's of London or move to the old Billingsgate fish market in the meantime . |
| 27 | Sally-Anne put up her hands again , could barely look at Dr Neil . |
| 28 | It 's something he 'd never try at Rafferty 's anyway ! |
| 29 | This can make those rare beings quite boring — an accusation you could never level at Jack . |
| 30 | One reason was for communications , but another reason that was rather intriguing to scientists was that they could actually look at stars and look at the space between the stars and use a different region of the spectrum , in particular the radio region . |