Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [to-vb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So do you want me to call at the 's now ? |
| 2 | The prevention of purprestures was his responsibility : he threw down houses , sheepfolds and other buildings and enclosures erected without licence in his bailiwick , and attached those who made them to appear at the next Forest Eyre . |
| 3 | The pelagic animals generally try to achieve ‘ neutral buoyancy ’ , to enable them to stay at the required depth without effort ; and many have devices to alter buoyancy . |
| 4 | Merymose asked me to look at the body . ’ |
| 5 | Because they believed and they got me to believe at the time , that nationalization would be the cure for all our ills . |
| 6 | For allowing ourselves to look at the report and find the actions , and not just the actions themselves . |
| 7 | They are likely to stay for a long time with one organisation , and indeed many organisations seek to bind them to them by offering fringe benefits , particularly in the form of " loyalty bonuses " to encourage them to return at the start of each new banqueting season . |
| 8 | And Sonya 's We are one , we live as one , ’ while it remains authorially bold , has nothing to fear at the hands of readers quick to sniff out dogma . |
| 9 | ‘ I want you to begin at the beginning and tell me your life . |
| 10 | Now the next , I want you to look at the verse prologue of the play . |
| 11 | ‘ Dave , I want you to stay at the office . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's a very special person I want you to meet at the concert tomorrow . |
| 13 | ‘ I told you to stay at the house . ’ |
| 14 | Despite pleas by senior police officers and the Crown Prosecution Service to remand Hagans in custody , the bench granted him bail , ordering him to stay at the Ryecroft Bail Hostel in Gloucester . |
| 15 | But Rostov 's experience of the Empire had not prepared him to find at the same time a complete absence of the poor and underprivileged . |
| 16 | A chance visit to Blackwardine caused him to look at the map for features of interest . |
| 17 | The latter is imagined to be a snake-like movement that translates the chain through the tube and allows it to escape at the tube ends . |
| 18 | Secondly , and most serious , are allegations of ‘ Clever Hans ’ errors ; named after the German horse early in the century that gave correct answers to arithmetical problems shown it on a blackboard ( by tapping with its hoof ) until it was unmasked as reacting to unwitting symptoms of tension in its trainer which caused it to stop at the right moment . |
| 19 | I swing round slowly , slowly , and slowly level it to aim at the spider , slowly push it forward against the pull of the concertina pipe behind . |
| 20 | Where was such-and-such street , I asked , or the beautiful shop where my mother regularly bought her hats and gloves , or the church with the gilded domes , or the cake shop which had such a show of delicate confections at Christmas time , or the butcher 's where I could hardly bring myself to look at the great sides of dead meat hanging on hooks , or the musty bookshop , smelling of dust and leather , kept by the bent old man whose white hair seemed to be falling off the back of his head , leaving his bald crown all shiny and hopeful and new ? |
| 21 | Erm , I 'll not go through the whole of this table sir , but I do want you to look at the next column , outstanding planning permissions . |
| 22 | Erm , the next bit of , that I want you to find which is the address and telephone section , that also , I 'd like you to put at the front of the active binder . |
| 23 | If the partners unanimously or by a prescribed majority feel that one of their number should no longer remain with the firm they are given power to require him to retire at the end of a period of notice , typically six months or not less than six months to expire at the end of the firm 's accounting year . |
| 24 | The holistic approach of phrenology taught them to look at the body-mind dichotomy and to think in terms of prevention rather than quick cures that were often spurious . |
| 25 | ‘ And now it 's a wonderful feeling to know that it has enabled me to look at the top guys knowing there are only a few ahead of me . |
| 26 | ‘ Get someone to look at the new evidence you turned up . |
| 27 | The evening will enable you to look at the paintings and sculptures in an atmosphere of unhurried calm : quite a contrast to the frantic activity that precedes the show , as veteran exhibitor Fred Dubery explains |
| 28 | The Contraalmirante had invited her to dine at the C-in-C 's residence . |
| 29 | ‘ I tell her to sit at the back of the class , otherwise nobody can see over her head . ’ |
| 30 | Cissie had also been entertaining secret hopes that Beth just might change her mind about sending her to work at the flower shop . |