Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |
| 2 | Though most merchants say it is too early to come up with a firm idea of the trade , the initial reports on quality suggest some low nitrogens and good bushel weights , at least for the Puffin that seems to predominate at the moment . |
| 3 | At the outset of their research , messrs Deakins and Hussain believed : ‘ there is a paucity of qualitative research that attempts to look at the relationship between the bank manager and the small business owner and the importance of different reasons for accepting and rejecting propositions that come before the banks . |
| 4 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |
| 5 | We are made to share his view , and with it his plans and hopes to gain at the expense of good . |
| 6 | So , an ‘ epidemic ’ of heroin use occurs when incidence rises ( above the normal , endemic level of use ) and continues to rise at a rate higher than the outcidence rate . |
| 7 | For example , when she accompanies the boys on an illicit night-time visit to the woods in order to retrieve the gun from the crashed aeroplane , she drops the torch , breaks it ( having previously failed to hold it straight ) , and begins to cry at the thought of dead bodies . |
| 8 | The refusal is as understandable as it is naive , but seems to constitute at the same time what amounts to an abnegation of intellectual curiosity about human needs . |