Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [to-vb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing no future in hearts West then found the club switch and East took the next six club tricks , leaving only six tricks for declarer to collect at the end . |
| 2 | COMMUTERS stood on tracks disrupting London-bound trains yesterday in protest at British Rail 's ‘ scorched earth ’ policy for eliminating the perennial problem of leaves on the line More than 50 people at Carshalton , Surrey , swapped season tickets for placards to protest at the transformation of leafy tracksides into what one called a ‘ scene from Apocalypse Now ’ , the film about the Vietnam war which showed the effects of mass defoliation with napalm . |
| 3 | And I will also give you a good deal of freedom to look at the sea . ’ |
| 4 | As it melted , the fuel 's chemical reaction with the surrounding water also caused a bubble of hydrogen to form at the top of the reactor vessel . |
| 5 | Given basic ability , equality of opportunity to borrow at the market rate of interest to invest in your human capital so as to secure a future return makes observed income inequality a matter of individual choice . |
| 6 | Inevitably this assault had to mean trouble for some of their own folk , since they must drive through the outer ring of Scots to get at the enemy — the cost which had caused Ramsay momentarily to hesitate . |
| 7 | The rally , at the City Halls , Glasgow , will be attended by civil servants from the West of Scotland to protest at the Government 's market testing ( or privatisation ) programme . |
| 8 | There is still a lot of work to do at the Training Centre . ’ |
| 9 | You need a glass of wine to raise at the end of your speech if you are going to propose a toast . |
| 10 | Davis was the worst sort of person to have at the head of a monopolistic company . |
| 11 | Gradually , an expanse of intense colour and velvetine texture emerged ; the minute particles of pigment fell and dispersed causing a natural halo of colour to appear at the base of each panel . |
| 12 | They dynamited and burned our museums , and stole works of art to sell at the border with Thailand . |
| 13 | Oh , why do n't you make what you 've got cos you 've got a lot of things to make at the moment , and then come back and choose another time , hm . |
| 14 | The fourth and final section takes leave of society to look at the realm of theory . |
| 15 | In 1987 the Department of the Environment set up a national review of homelessness to look at the implementation of the law relating to homelessness and to consider whether it needed changing . |
| 16 | They function as a diversion to the eye , a focus for a view , a foretaste of grandeurs to come at the entrance to a park . |
| 17 | The Institute seems to be rather vaguely organized , as they still have n't been able to tell me what students I am teaching — my teaching , it turns out , does n't start until Monday , but I have heard that an abnormally large number of students have signed up for my course , so I shall have a lot of marking of papers to do at the end of four weeks . |
| 18 | Plans were soon afoot for Edith to train at the Medau School in Berlin , and German language lessons were embarked upon , but the Munich crisis intervened . |
| 19 | Thus we are appealing for things to sell at the car boot sales , or maybe you would prefer to make a small donation to our funds . |
| 20 | The unnerving grey-green eyes narrowed slightly , and as Tara appeared with a tray he gestured for Virginia to sit at the table , his gaze not leaving her as she reluctantly did so . |
| 21 | ISO has three detector systems for astronomers to position at the telescope 's focus to investigate different aspects of infrared sources . |
| 22 | France halted aid to Togo in February to protest at the killing of pro-democracy demonstrators by soldiers loyal to President Gnassingbé Eyadéma . |
| 23 | He had his top brass coming in from Washington to look at the operation and the first thing they 'd see at Filanta Court was this 30-foot PLO radio mast . |
| 24 | With the Tunnel , you can commute to the City from France faster than from , say , Wiltshire or Dorset — which are the in places to live at the moment . |
| 25 | This effect causes impurities in solids to accumulate at the grain boundaries ( and also vacancies , that is , holes ) and this may cause the grain boundary to become a line of weakness . |
| 26 | And perhaps she might agree to allow the circle to make some fine ones in lawn to sell at the bazaar and I could do some white Swiss eyelet embroidery on them . |
| 27 | Health workers from North Yorkshire join a day of action in London to protest at the Government 's health policies . |
| 28 | This proved futile , and when I decided eventually to rise , it was still so dark that I was obliged to turn on the electric light in order to shave at the sink in the corner . |
| 29 | It was arranged that they should get the express train from Hanover in order to open at the Folies-Bergère on the very evening of their arrival . |
| 30 | We might also note that , in order to arrive at the implicature , we have to know certain.facts about the world , that garages sell petrol , and that round the corner is not a great distance away . |