Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a problem seems obviously more complex they suggest that the client makes an appointment with an adviser to come back at a time when the bureau is officially closed to the public . |
| 2 | He became lost in one of his dour moods so I let him be and went to the window to stare out at a dairy maid carrying pitchers of milk between the barns and the kitchen . |
| 3 | But if you ask him to spare a couple of hours to help out at a St John Ambulance fund-raising activity or a garden fête for the church roof repair fund , he might find that a worthwhile thing to do . |
| 4 | Due to the large spread ( i.e. difference between buying and selling prices ) , it usually takes a substantial rise to enable investors to sell out at a profit . |
| 5 | As a rule he was unobserved , as he took care to go out at a time when everyone in the house was occupied elsewhere . |
| 6 | It 's known as the Vadinamian Valve , and it 's big enough for only one ship to pass through at a time . |
| 7 | I picture richly rewarding learning environments : I walk , unnoticed , into a creative activities period in Jos ( Nigeria ) where the children remain too absorbed in their various tasks to look up at a stranger , however unfamiliar . |
| 8 | And in fact in the early stages I got one man working for me and er I went back into teaching again for a short time to help out at a school where the the the teacher was ill , and I was teaching in the morning and then doing two-man jobs in the afternoon , and he was doing one man jobs in the morning . |
| 9 | It is , of course , possible for a solicitor 's written advice to include a ‘ brief ’ for the client to read out at a tribunal hearing . |