Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
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| 3 | But with the market price another 1p lower after Tuesday 's 7p fall , Hoare 's own market-makers were offering to buy Midland shares from the rest of the market at 362p or to sell at 367p . |
| 4 | But nowadays not everyone is so ready to accept such divisions as unalterable , and if one holds the not unreasonable belief that the existence of wealth is one cause of poverty , then clearly we are faced with a more difficult choice : either to tolerate the existence of both wealth and poverty , or to aim at abolishing poverty , in which case we have no option but to attack wealth . |
| 5 | Moreover , he finds it a nuisance to have her in his flat all day , when he wants to do piano practice , or to play at conducting an orchestra . |
| 6 | Or to jeer at the discredited Baltic Communists who rode in behind the thugs , proclaimed themselves in charge in Lithuania and Latvia and then scuttled for cover . |
| 7 | Ca can we just look at a I do n't know which way to be specific or to look at the general first , can I just |
| 8 | Or to look at it from the social point of view — he 's just one man among many , the loss would be well within reason and convenience . |
| 9 | Or to look at it another way — we are little men , we do n't know the ins and outs of the matter , there are wheels within wheels , etcetera — it wold be presumptuous of us to interfere with the designs of fate or even of kings . |
| 10 | I dare say someone could cross a road with the best of intentions — to help an old lady perhaps , or to look at a fruit-shop — then slip on a banana-skin and cause a perfectly horrible accident . |
| 11 | A class doing a study on " water " , for instance , might need to give some attention to the history of water supplies in their area , or to look at past epidemics of cholera and typhoid , to prove that clean water is vital for good health . |
| 12 | Or to look at it in another way , if all the defaulters in community charge payments were paying their due amount , perhaps these closures would not be necessary . |
| 13 | Advantage of this can be taken by widely-held public companies to enable them temporarily to freeze the list of those who are entitled to receive an annual dividend or to vote at an annual general meeting . |
| 14 | Locked together now , welded , this was purely a matter of power and its absence , history 's eternal lesson of the powerful absorbing the powerless , as first her lack of resistance and then her wild response empowered Luke — to take , to give , to plunder or to reward at his pleasure . |
| 15 | Even so , Artemis had no time to relax or to shout at whoever it was still charging up beside her to slow down because the hill was beginning to flatten out into the dip and they were fast approaching the big open ditch . |
| 16 | From the outside it is difficult to know whether to curse Bramante 's decision to demolish the original church — apart from the internal apse structure and the ( later ) campanile , — or to marvel at the soaring lines . |
| 17 | In the absence of any sustained historical research into football in this period , it is not possible to say how frequent or how violent these occasions were , or to arrive at a balanced comparison between football disorders in the 1920s and 1930s as against those in more recent years . |
| 18 | He readily accepted invitations to talk at other colleges or to teach at weekend courses for amateur artists . |
| 19 | Women today are considered to have two choices — to work or to stay at home . |
| 20 | Or to think at all . |
| 21 | For those who would like a more relaxing evening , what better than to sit at an open air cafe , sipping an ice cold beer , listening to the local brass band in the village square and watching the sun slip down behind the mountains — perfect ! |
| 22 | But Calero , for all his ‘ democratic armour ’ , wished more to fight wars than to play at politics ; the fragile political coalition of leaders did not survive , and there was no constitutional cruise . |
| 23 | What is easier than to look at the most conspicuous item in the marketing budget and one which is largely the concern of an outside supplier , at that ? |
| 24 | It is easier to divide up s.22 than to look at it all at once . |
| 25 | Everyone knew that to point at the seals was taboo . |
| 26 | Mr Ferguson would enjoy nothing more than to arrive at Liverpool on April 26 as champions . |
| 27 | He is aware that to live at all requires some measure of hi sā , but that , he says , should not prevent a man from trying to practise the ideals of ahi sā . |
| 28 | He appreciates their design features : what a kangaroo gains and loses by moving in leaps , why horses change gait , why it is harder to walk quickly than to jog at an easy pace . |
| 29 | But it said that to get at the root of the problem the Government had to tackle the whole issue of deprivation . |
| 30 | Where it is clear from Jane Austen 's novels that those of humbler birth , if they had something to teach them , also had something to learn from them-Fanny , William , and Susan are all improved by their contact with Mansfield Park — in the reign of Victoria even Mrs Gaskell , who was certainly gifted with what Charlotte Bronte described as ‘ the organ of veneration ’ , is less inclined to revere great houses than to laugh at them . |