Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [noun] [adv] at " in BNC.
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1 | The United States could , and did , also claim that it actually required a greater surplus than this so that it could begin to chip away at the huge ‘ overhang ’ of dollar liabilities with a view to restoring convertibility of the dollar to the SDR ( special drawing rights ) once confidence had been restored . |
2 | We can all meet for lunch together at the beach . ’ |
3 | Applicants should apply in person only at the Carlton Highland between 2.30pm and 8pm and ask for Mark Linnane in Training Room 329 . |
4 | Come on now , Malachi , do n't stand on ceremony here at home . ’ |
5 | See the band live with Trousershock BC at the West End Centre on April 25th . |
6 | Certainly , but then De Gaulle was only the most recent of a line of French national leaders , going back at least as far as Joan of Arc , who have seen in the English , through most of the centuries , their main enemy , whereas of course we did n't come across Germany internationally at all until within the last ninety years . |
7 | Laurence Tribe , Professor of Law at Harvard University , said he thought the session would continue to chip away at the broad right to abortion . |
8 | The jamming and bridging got steeper — with the one big consolation that , strength permitting , you could pop in nuts almost at will — until he reached a ledge which elsewhere he would have regarded as a slab to be climbed , but here seemed a spacious refuge . |