Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Whichever way I try to come at the Unknown Substance it remains just beyond my grasp . |
| 3 | Happy May Day , and I 'm so sorry about the muddle with the draft I 've enquired at the head office of the Bank of Scotland , where I got it made out , and they seemed to think your Brno bank was being a bit dim , or perhaps even obstructionist , in telling you they could n't deal with it and that you 'd have to go to Prague to get it cashed . |
| 4 | Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them . |
| 5 | ‘ Besides , as Mona will tell you , I 've reformed at the very idea of being put in clink for treason or whatever they call it . |
| 6 | I need to look at the real thing . ’ |
| 7 | The index can be seen as measuring the increase in gross taxable income required to compensate taxpayers for any increase in retail prices , taking into account any changes in direct taxation ( including employees ' National Insurance contributions ) which have occurred at the same time . |
| 8 | but you hate to think at the same time what happened how they were burning you hate to think of |
| 9 | The idea is to order everything you want to eat at the same time , then work your way through the tower of baskets . |
| 10 | Those who want to get at the frozen part of their savings in the old currency will have to buy new currency from the central bank , at auctions where it will cost them well over its face value . |
| 11 | then you see or somebody you know looking at the long jump and they 're muttering away to themselves . |
| 12 | Cos you know to look at the bottom line of total design fees against what they would have been if we 'd gone in fixed price ? |
| 13 | The parents of youngsters who go to play at the two local nurseries are very worried about the effects that the petrol station will have on their children . |
| 14 | Well I think there is the the only report that I 've got is the fact that the financial summary er you 've seen at the same time as I have . |
| 15 | Look , what you 've got at the present moment , Private Nobody , is a badly sprained ankle . |
| 16 | got ta got ta royal visit coming up he said you 've worked at the Scottish Office do you know anything about them and I said yes tell the Scottish Office they 'll do all the a Royal navy one I 've got to do it I said fine when is it ? |
| 17 | A measure of your success in a coaching session is when the subordinate feels the discussion has been between two equals and that together you have arrived at the best course of action . |
| 18 | But now you have to begin at the other end and tell the story in a straight run through the eyes , or over the shoulder , of the " detective " figure . |
| 19 | We can cut money off , let's make some easy quick decisions about cutting money off , let's chop out the arts you could do that on one line easily and I think you have to look at the long term you have to look at what happens in terms of our culture , our civilization if you do do that , how people change and to me it 's about and that was raised last night too about how an saying that they had put a limit on the cost of opera tickets forty pounds , compared |
| 20 | Like all these things you have to look at the bright side . |
| 21 | You have to look at the whole team for that . |
| 22 | You have come at the wrong time . |
| 23 | Erm and you need to look at the big picture . |
| 24 | " We want to stop at the Bourgeois Gentilhomme , " she said , with the remnants of the French accent the nuns had carefully taught her . |
| 25 | Ah , well , we want to say at the bottom items one five seven and twenty four are two piece construction . |
| 26 | We want to stay at the top level while doing the same things we did 40 years ago . |
| 27 | But you start , or we like to start at the front door of what we call . |
| 28 | Now we start to look at the same stitch types again , but this time used as a double bed knitting techniques . |
| 29 | We 've looked at the correct placing of a tank , at filtration and other life-support systems for tropical fish , and at the fish themselves . |
| 30 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |