Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my desperate fear and danger , I was like a pain-maddened animal , ready to kill or wound at any moment . |
| 2 | ‘ the rights to which he would be entitled if he were the holder of the share , except that he shall not , before being registered as the holder of the share , be entitled in respect of it to attend or vote at any general meeting of the company or at a separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares in the company . ’ |
| 3 | The task does not require detailed syntactic processing , simply to know where to pause ( the major syntactic boundaries ) , which words to stress ( distinguishing content and function words ) and whether the sentence requires the pitch to fall or rise at the end ( is it a yes-no question ? ) . |
| 4 | One aspect of colic is difficult to explain from either viewpoint — the fact that the symptoms tend to disappear or diminish at about three months of age . |
| 5 | Women today are considered to have two choices — to work or to stay at home . |
| 6 | It would be tedious to quote more than a few examples of the evidence from parliamentary commissions , the STC , union reports and surveys etc. , but the following quotations are typical : " About the only work which the women can do is to stand or sit at their formes and set up type ; and to distribute the types back again into the cases , but of course this is only a portion of a compositor 's work " ( an employer ) ; " " As far as mere type-lifting is concerned , she may do , but there is other rough work in connection with compositors " work which I do not think a woman is qualified for " ( a union leader ) ; " Women … get the best , i. e. the simplest jobs … they are kept always at pretty much the same kind of work " ( an employer ) . |
| 7 | We do suggest one small change , to allow an employee 's payment method to be changed at the discretion of his employer , if at the time that he entered that employment , he had agreed to accept that change at some future time ( not necessarily specified ) . |
| 8 | There are other places she could go to , of course , but so many of them would be clubs in which she would be expected to communicate and contribute at a time when all she wants is occasionally simply to be ‘ with ’ people and to be able to depart when she wishes without giving offence or disturbing the gathering . |
| 9 | Townsend says the aim of the book is to give enough information for people planning a trip and ‘ to try and capture at least some of the joy and excitement of walking in these mountains ’ . |
| 10 | So I think to some extent what one needs to do is to try and get at the governments , rather that at individual timber producers . |
| 11 | You may set that as a target to try and work at it this way to overcome that or to do it better . |
| 12 | And of course if you 're finding that there 's a shortfall there , then you 've got to try and look at your you know assets , your lump sum etcetera , as a way of , of erm er trying to cover that shortfall . |
| 13 | Ask him if he wants to come and knock at my door . |
| 14 | Would you like to come and dance at my wedding ? ’ |
| 15 | " I would like to invite you to come and stay at my house , " he said . |
| 16 | He was aware that Members had to come and go at irregular intervals at the behest of their lords and masters when the House was in session , but he feared the worst . |
| 17 | And I would n't like to cause the entire population to come and stare at me every day . ’ |
| 18 | He used to come and sit at my table when we had meals . |
| 19 | I invite her to come and sit at a table with Kurowski and me , but she prefers to remain on duty at the bar . |
| 20 | ‘ In the end we asked them to come and sit at the back of the stage , ’ Miss Picon recalled . |
| 21 | the vicar used to come and sit at the back and , you know , they used to do a little turn , you know play in the bands |
| 22 | wanted that old , is it , the rag and bone people , you know , rubbish , and er I suppose somebody taught him and er he , he played in that and er you know did the little towns and the vic the vicar used to come and sit at the back , a seat under against , under the window and watch , perhaps he thought he 'd er get some little co |
| 23 | The Company did not send expeditions of its own into this area for over a century ; like the East India and the Royal Africa Companies it established trading posts and waited for the local inhabitants to come and trade at them . |
| 24 | Were there any teams that used to come and play at Walsall that were notorious in any way ? |
| 25 | I 'm going to come and live at Moorlake . " |
| 26 | The consultation process usually takes the form of a letter describing the application and inviting you to come and look at a copy of the application and any drawings submitted with it . |
| 27 | One day in 1915 he arrived in Berthe Weill 's gallery and begged her to come and look at his stone heads . |
| 28 | But Samantha Sherratt of the Howard League for Penal Reform said : ‘ I would n't want people paying money to come and look at me as if I was in a zoo or a fishbowl . |
| 29 | But a spokeswoman for the Howard League for Penal Reform fumed : ‘ If I was in jail I would n't want people paying money to come and look at me as if I was in a zoo . ’ |
| 30 | Balbinder ran outside straight away , gesturing to me to come and look at it . |