Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to [pron] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , for me personally I think there 's actually a decision that if I ca n't get over the full unbiased impression that I want to make about the whole story , I 've got to make a decision whether I 'm going to talk to you at all . |
| 2 | Their aim is not so much to alleviate the horrors of war as to make war so horrific that potential aggressors will fear to resort to it at all . |
| 3 | Maggie spat , alarmed that the others might hear and wishing she did not have to speak to him at all . |
| 4 | ‘ You must have thought you merited punishment , for the idea to have occurred to you at all . ’ |
| 5 | Those of us privileged to have spoken to him at some length and to have seen his fascinating family albums would have known of his boyhood tea with Hitler , his Military Medal midstream in some Eastern battlefield and a host of other incidents . |
| 6 | The justification of the invaders , based partly on the doubtful assumption that proximity gave sovereign rights , but more specifically on the claim that the islands had belonged to them at some time in the past , bears comparison with the Zionist claim to Palestine . |
| 7 | Before I start , if you have written to me at some time and recognise your own problems in what follows — please do n't take offence ! |
| 8 | I saw him a lot at the Ehukai Beach Park where he was based , but only managed to talk to him at any length at a party in the hills . |
| 9 | As Byron put it , ‘ I never loved nor pretended to love her , but a man is a man , and if a girl of 18 comes prancing to you at all hours , there is but one way … |
| 10 | In fact , I do n't see why you have to refer to him at all . |