Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wallace 's attempts to establish himself at United have been hindered by the player 's desperation to become a Stretford End hero as Fergie explained : ‘ He tried too hard to make himself popular . |
| 2 | Letting the water buoy up my weight I stretched my feet down to touch bottom and found the water came up to my ears ; took a deep breath , put the rest of my head under and reached around for Harry , unable to see him , unable with open eyes to see anything at all . |
| 3 | It was a good system for everyone except the artist , who was frequently offered a low rate for the job , then had his payment deferred , and sometimes had to battle for months to receive anything at all . |
| 4 | She made appointments to meet me at different places : restaurants , art galleries . |
| 5 | The ‘ slot and bar ’ access has been designed to allow cyclists to negotiate it at low speeds or dismounted . |
| 6 | The ‘ slot and bar ’ access has been designed to allow cyclists to negotiate it at low speeds or dismounted . |
| 7 | In all your efforts to help her at this crucial time the most important thing to remember is to try to reduce her anxiety by being as relaxed and quietly optimistic about her future as you can , and to restrain her from making any major decisions hastily , regarding such matters as the disposal of property or moving house , as she may regret this later on when she is feeling less depressed . |
| 8 | No , this was their home ; they did n't want strangers to disturb them at 29 Champney Road . |
| 9 | erm , er and I 'm have to take some time over this , so I think erm in the circumstances the better thing to do would be to adjourn this case till Monday morning and hope that Mr can so arrange his affairs to address me at half past ten on that day , er with Mr and with erm , whatever rights he has to erm deal with matters of this , come up a fresh in reply and to finish off , I 'm gon na leave it like that , a very much , and as I say as far , as far as tomorrow 's concerned that 's er not a difficulty with erm , either Mr informs me which is unlikely or I can , at least get a , make a start , er on the other aspects of the judgement , alright then half past ten on Monday morning |
| 10 | Instead of inviting my patients to see me at 10-minute intervals — generally I offer them each 10 minutes of my time — I shall invite the lot to attend at 9 o'clock in the morning . |
| 11 | Can I say that we are now organising quite tightly the business of street collections , and I think if committee are minded to reduce the number of collections that we allow , we should decide that before we come to this meeting , because I think it 's very difficult in practical terms to do it at this stage , and therefore I would suggest that we do agree twenty-one , not withstanding what Graham said , we can take on board some of what he said , and maybe the month before we are asked to take this decision , we have an item on the agenda where we discuss the principle before we get down to the practicalities . |
| 12 | It is also possible to arrange with taxi-drivers to drop you at one point and collect you some hours later from another . |
| 13 | It was not unusual for young ladies to do nothing at all ; unless they occupied themselves with Berlin woolwork or the making of shell boxes , there was practically nothing genteel to do . |
| 14 | If the amount of data to be passed is small , you may prefer to pass data to the CHAINed program by using the indirection operators to store them at known addresses . |
| 15 | This is partly because eating foods you do n't like ( and avoiding those you do ) day after day is nigh-on impossible , and partly because your personal cholesterol level is as normal and natural for you as your shoe size , so your body has various feedback mechanisms to keep it at that level . |