Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They used their extra income gained to stay at home to look after children . |
| 2 | Hatton , Monk and Folan denied a similar charge relating to land at Brownlow Hill , Liverpool between July 1987 and January 1988 . |
| 3 | A vague suspicion began to tug at Benny 's mind , and she frowned in thought . |
| 4 | Attacks on some of Iran 's smaller towns and cities occurred comparatively early in the war , but apart from the first two days , it is not clear when either side decided to strike at population centres as a strategic option . |
| 5 | Though money may follow the patient , postoperative morbidity tends to stay at home . |
| 6 | Also unaccompanied , like Nolan , though Harry had mentioned at one time that Lewis was married : his reclusive wife preferred to stay at home to avoid the fuss and fracas of Lewis drunk . |
| 7 | Later , if the child takes a definite stand as a Christian , there will also be a deeper challenge to struggle to change at heart ; tackling inward dispositions as well as facing the difficult questions of faith . |
| 8 | JC : During the first year of the war a somewhat depleted company continued to perform at Sadler 's Wells ( Rosebery Avenue ) . |
| 9 | MCI CAPITAL SPENDING TO PEAK AT $1,6000M |
| 10 | Other member states bypassed us on the single currency by giving us an opt-out , for which the Prime Minister had to pay at Maastricht — and for which the British people will have to pay even more in the months ahead — and they bypassed us on the social chapter by simply going ahead without us . |
| 11 | J. Percy Bruce chose for his equivalent ‘ law ’ , and so incorporated into the Neo-Confucian terminology itself the wrong answer to the question ‘ Are there laws of nature in China ? ’ , a misunderstanding which Joseph Needham in elucidating the concepts of Chinese science had to analyse at length . |
| 12 | Around Malvern in Worcestershire driving snow slowed rush hour traffic to a crawl , as it did on high ground in Gloucestershire when overnight rain turned to snow at dawn . |
| 13 | It is , of course , a PWR that the Central Electricity Generating Board wants to build at Sizewell in Suffolk . |
| 14 | Stockier build than Common Gull ( p. 153 ) with white wing-tips , heavy red bill appearing to droop at tip , and longer red legs , while winter and immature birds usually have dark smudge through eye . |
| 15 | Peruvian jet aircraft on April 24 attacked an unarmed US C-130 transport plane over the Pacific ocean , wounding two of the 16 on board ; a third person was sucked out to his death before the damaged plane managed to land at Tara , 1,000 km north of Lima . |
| 16 | Johnes ' main conclusion was that raising the academic requirements for entry into university may not be the most appropriate method for reducing wastage rates , since the academic ability required to succeed at university is clearly imperfectly reflected by the results of school examinations . |