Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 61 | The freedom to wander at will is illusory if all the destinations are indistinguishable . |
| 62 | But on these rare occasions the frontier posts protecting Blanche 's personality had been unmanned , and Dexter had been able to wander at will through her past and her present . |
| 63 | They turned into an alleyway off Friday Street and Cranston began to bellow at passersby for the whereabouts of Parchmeiner 's shop . |
| 64 | This publication contained detailed descriptions of persons who failed to appear at court to answer a criminal charge . |
| 65 | It is quite likely therefore that a meeting of Lambarde and Shakespeare took place at this time , although it was n't until 1594 that Shakespeare made his mark , for it was at Christmas of that year that he was Summoned to appear at Court . |
| 66 | He failed to appear at court to answer a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm which allegedly happened in Durham Prison last July . |
| 67 | People who fail the Church are sometimes made to appear at morning service ‘ as they were first made before God ’ , which these days usually means in their underclothes . |
| 68 | Although her stomach was churning at the thought of the coming ordeal , she was determined to appear at ease so as not to let Ludo down . |
| 69 | She knew she was still on trial , despite his efforts to appear at ease . |
| 70 | Billed as the most important sale of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French silver to appear at auction for twenty years , the results of Sotheby 's sale of the Jourdan-Barry collection were not outstanding . |
| 71 | One of the most important Chinese ceramics to appear at auction and of Ming Imperial Porcelain , it should sell for more than $2.5 million ( £1,633,000 ) . |
| 72 | This is the most significant collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French silver to appear at auction in twenty years . |
| 73 | Comprising over 200 pieces , the Larner collection is the largest single-owner collection of its kind to appear at auction . |
| 74 | Undoubtedly the most important group of works by the artist to appear at auction for many years , the canvases are said to be in extremely good condition . |
| 75 | that tend to appear at Christmas , |
| 76 | Why was it that British industrialists took advantage of rising labour productivity to reduce their labour force , rather than to develop new forms of production using more sophisticated techniques and making improved products to sell at home and abroad ? |
| 77 | They may therefore agree to sell at price level P whatever is demanded . |
| 78 | It is particularly attractive to firms with strong institutional placing power ; retail firms prefer to sell at issue price , retaining full fees as profit , rather than selling at the lower fixed reoffer price set by the lead manager . |
| 79 | The name is supposed to come from their usage as cool stores for butter that farmers travelling the pass had failed to sell at market . |
| 80 | Miners may now keep 20% of their output to sell at free-market prices . |
| 81 | Christie 's pulled off the biggest coup of the week , selling a complete , signed Vollard suite for £600,000 ( $906,000 ) to David Tunick bidding in the room , the first Vollard suite to sell at auction since 1982 ( although another set was unsold at Sotheby 's last year ) . |
| 82 | These are the first Impressionist works to sell at auction for over $10 million since the fall of 1990 . |
| 83 | When the market is buoyant , it will normally be in the vendor 's interest to sell at auction . |
| 84 | Law was equally keen to point out that little was being risked , and to set at rest the fears of his supporters : |
| 85 | Leave the shapes to set at room temperature . |
| 86 | The question of my health is a difficult one , which I shall have to answer at length in a letter , if you can find the patience to read it . |
| 87 | There is an appearance of debate , but increasingly Eudoxus asks rhetorical questions which allow Irenius to answer at length , and ( hardly surprisingly ) win Eudoxus over to see the sense of his proposals once the true horror of the Irish are recognised . |
| 88 | my Lord these are the matters I would like to explore at time |
| 89 | For the ultimate freedom to explore at leisure Citalia gives you the choice of a motoring holiday . |
| 90 | Lord Jesus , thank you for a nice sleep , thank you for another day , please help us to do the kind of things that you want us to do , prayer for Christopher to behave at school , help him to do his best and for daddy at work , for Tim and I as we stay at home , help us to know the kind of things we do and this afternoon when grandma comes we 'll spare the time for her as well , Amen . |