Example sentences of "[vb infin] [indef pn] at " in BNC.
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1 | Willig ( 1978 ) has proposed an alternative scheme which can make everyone at least as well off as under the average cost regime . |
2 | Without doing so we would know nothing at all . |
3 | Ruskin ( who will be discussed in a later chapter ) also wrote his autobiography in old age , and without our knowledge of his life from other sources we should have a distorted picture of his childhood , and should know nothing at all about his marriage . |
4 | Brian did not like parties , according to Alix , and had expressed fears that he would know nobody at the Headleands ' , but this was not so , for he had already engaged himself with his habitual courtesy with old Sir Anthony . |
5 | ‘ You should buy one at Paderborn , there may be something to photograph . |
6 | I said no , she said you wo n't leave the union will you , I said no , she said alright we 'll buy one at Haydock , still in the Lancashire region and the reason why the union is my second love , obviously my first love is me family , is what it 's done for me , but I also think what I 've done for those people who represent me and yourselves in Parliament . |
7 | I says no I says I do n't know anybody at all . |
8 | ‘ Robina , ’ he shouted , ‘ we ca n't possibly discuss anything at all if you persist in — ’ |
9 | Thus when in 1304 Archbishop Corbridge of York admitted to a canonry a papal providee instead of a royal presentee , he was summoned for contempt and was told by the king 's judges that as the pope 's acts were not subject to the English courts , no one should prosecute anything at Rome or elsewhere to the detriment of crown rights and royal dignity . |
10 | Thus when Archbishop Corbridge preferred to obey the pope in a matter of patronage , he was told by the king 's judges that he was wrong to do so because the pope 's acts were not subject to the English courts , and that no one should prosecute anything at Rome or elsewhere contrary to crown rights and royal dignity . |
11 | In fact , ’ said Ewen , and was there just a shade of genuine relief in his tone ? ‘ you do n't know anything at all . |
12 | ‘ Do you know anything at all about cars ? ’ he asked curtly . |
13 | Could you tell me a bit more about that , because I do n't know anything at all about utility furniture |
14 | He could feel nothing at all below the hook 's point of entry . |
15 | Unfortunately I could do nothing at all . |
16 | This answer would be fully acceptable only if the speaker is fully aware of his situation and can do nothing at present to ease it . |
17 | Felipe could do nothing at all . |
18 | Four , you could do nothing at all and leave any course of action to the solicitors comfortable then you should be using their best endeavours to obtain the licence . |
19 | things like this , but regards to the fact that when , when something is sold to somebody right , erm , and then a , and , and the person who 's selling it receives the money , I mean the person the police ca n't do nothing at all about it unless fraud comes into it |
20 | He 'll sacrifice nothing at the expense of quality , knowing that the customer will sacrifice him instantly if the quality of his goods or services is poor . |
21 | No , she did n't bring one at all |
22 | It showed you can achieve something at short notice , provided you 're prepared to drop everything and cover the cost . |
23 | Okay well we 're in a really bad situation , I mean we can achieve something at least and perhaps oh perhaps communism does n't work after all , they just seem to be doubting their own beliefs and what they 've read . |
24 | If a public sector organisation says that it will do something at a certain time , the customer wants that to happen . |
25 | If we can get that , then five or six years down the track we might be producing players who can do something at world level . ’ |
26 | Well Mrs Toad is having a sale in her shop + + she has laid out her caish + cash register + + an' a number of pots of tea + + it 's gon na be a special sale because + + so she has th' + a sign up saying + prices are slashed + so she hopes lots of customers will be coming along + to visit her + + while she ‘ s waiting for customers + she goes about setting out the rest of + of the shop + + for things in the sale + + an ’ she brings on + large cans of tin + of tea + + for + she can only carry one at a time + so she walks on with one and puts it on the counter + + |
27 | You see when you first start , you 've only got three appointments anyway , so you can do one at ten o'clock and one at four ca n't you ? |
28 | Well you know you could do one at the slip |
29 | As I hinted parenthetically following the quotation from Clark , it seems perverse for him to insist that we must choose one at the expense of the other . |
30 | You can not do everything at the same time . |