Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you present someone with a set of stripes on a TV screen and make them move at right angles to their long axis , that is the direction in which the person will see them move . |
| 2 | You 're beginning to sound like a mother hen ; I half expect you to cluck at any minute . ’ |
| 3 | If you 're wanting to take er early retirement and erm you 're wanting enhancement say you retire at fifty nine and you want some enhancement , can you ask for enhancement sort of up to sixty five or has it only got to be up to sixty ? |
| 4 | When you 've done that I want you to look at this . |
| 5 | I suggest we start at nine , ’ she told Silvia . |
| 6 | I urge him to look at one current study which concerns the possibility of moving the sea systems control first to temporary accommodation and then , in 1995-96 , to permanent accommodation . |
| 7 | And , although this huge deficit is in large measure a consequence of the fall in tax revenue and the cost of unemployment in the recession , the IFS expect it to remain at this level for some years even if a gradual recovery does take place . |
| 8 | And , although this huge deficit is in large measure a consequence of the fall in tax revenue and the cost of unemployment in the recession , the IFS expect it to stay at this level for some years even if a gradual recovery does take place . |
| 9 | The company had a prototype built and running , and employees say it ran at 51.2 GFLOPS peak — three times the performance of the best machine commercially available . |
| 10 | ‘ The scouts say it looks at first glance as if thousands are leaving . |
| 11 | I mean obviously I 'd have to pay more er for if I want it to end at sixty . |
| 12 | They fought , and ran , and stood to fight again , tiring , separated , driven now like hunted hares , until Isambard called his men back at the brook and let them rest at last . |
| 13 | Let me go at this another way . |
| 14 | Bruin many years later became the CO of No 84 Squadron in Greece — that is before we were all thrown out by the Germans and , let me say at this stage , aided and abetted by a rather unmentionable faction of Greek insurgence . |
| 15 | ‘ Hold still ; let me look at that . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Haff you heard at aal apout a maan caald Menzies ? ’ one asked the other in a broad parody of the Gaelic accent . |
| 17 | ‘ If I so much as catch you smiling at another woman — ’ |
| 18 | Kate deliberately let all control go , let her anger at this man rip through her with all the force of a forest fire . |
| 19 | And it is not possible for us to know anything at all about him unless he is generous enough to disclose himself Another book in this series has tackled the question of revelation ; suffice it to say at this point that without revelation we can not say anything about the Lord who is Spirit . |
| 20 | Suffice it to say at this point that because of the complex and changing world in which the public sector operates , implementation of policies may solve certain problems but is likely to throw up further problems which in turn need to be solved : hence the cyclical nature of the policy-making process . |
| 21 | She gave me rather a long look but let it go at that . |
| 22 | Ward was changing the subject and l let it go at that . |
| 23 | Wycliffe let it go at that . |
| 24 | Agnes let it go at that . |
| 25 | I let myself unwind at last — how good it feels to be back in the field , especially in this cinnamon-scented corner of the mortal sphere . |
| 26 | Let us look at each of these options in turn . |
| 27 | However , before going on to consider what Wittgenstein says , let us look at one of the implications of what Brentano says about the knowledge we have of beliefs , expectations , hopes , and so on . |
| 28 | If the foregoing suggests the activity of experienced adult readers , let us look at that most basic , apparently neutral , and certainly most mundane , of sentences : ‘ The cat sat on the mat ’ . |
| 29 | First , let us look at surplus labour . |
| 30 | Let us look at two examples of these principles applied to two common disciplinary ‘ problems ’ . |