Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [vb infin] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If … one prescient soul at your level , say , early in 1982 , … really had thought ministers should be forced to meet on this issue and they kept postponing discussions on the Falklands , could you as Permanent Secretary of Defence have ensured that relevant Cabinet ministers did get together and look at the problem rationally and seriously , in so far as it 's possible , in time ? |
| 2 | What we want local communities to do is to get together and look at the situation on the ground , that is to say the council , the police , the magistrates , the brewers , people who run fast food shops , the planners . |
| 3 | Lady followed her example rather than suffer at the hands of her infuriated master . |
| 4 | Rather than alight at the Gare du Nord railway terminal , they stayed on for another stop , leaving at Châtelet in the centre of the city . |
| 5 | It was a time when children were encouraged to fantasize about machines and outer space rather than marvel at the open spaces where the deer and buffalo roamed . |
| 6 | In 797 Barcelona , the main Catalonian city , fell to the Franks and the Saracen governor , Zeid , rebelling against his master in Cordova , sought vassalage with the Christians rather than defeat at the hands of a fellow Moslem . |
| 7 | Then I went through the samples in my kitchen and realised that , rather than look at the non-mainstream areas , I could look at wines from perfectly accepted areas that broke the usual conventions ; or in one brilliant example , I could see what great traditional winemakers — in this case a pair of Burgundian grandees — could do when they decided to rough it a bit in France 's far south . |
| 8 | The idea of confidence runs thus : Rather than look at the probability of getting this precise result , we find the probability of getting a less likely observed result . |
| 9 | Yeah , twenty five says when once the householder has got up and locked the door and you start to stand outside and knock at the door saying sir open to us , but in answer he will say to you , I do not know where you are from , then you will start saying we ate and drank in front of you and we 've taught in our broad ways , but he will speak and say to you , I do not know where you are from , get away from me you are workers of unrighteousness |
| 10 | Do you want to stay here and look at the books ? |
| 11 | The feathered friend will move across and peck at the TNT guard . |
| 12 | Others simply stood around the door resisting every invitation to come forward and sit at the front among middle-aged relations and family friends . |
| 13 | The chorus-master , you may say , could move forward and glance at the baton ; so he does : but … if a crowd of dancers occupies the downstage area , the baton is no longer visible . |
| 14 | ( b ) Both matrix and fibril may deform elastically and yield at the same strain . |