Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] at [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her favourite was listening to jazz , either live at one of her regular haunts , Ali 's Alley or the Village Vanguard , or sitting at home with the headphones on , listening to the likes of David Sanborn or the Yellowjackets . |
| 2 | But over and above other factors such as the growing disenchantment , after long experience , with the Auld Alliance , and the beginning of awareness that living at peace with the English might be better than suffering the massive destruction inflicted during the Rough Wooing , there was one compelling new element : Protestantism . |
| 3 | They will not go into the store where the eager young men and women modelling their smocks will sell them something expensive , attractive and useful that you have long tossed and turned at night in the lust to have in your possession . |
| 4 | She refused to put up with her husband 's moods , and commented at length on the ways in which her skill as a household manager had been undervalued in the past . |
| 5 | He came out of hospital in January 1963 , and convalesced at home for the next few weeks . |
| 6 | While mundane scientists poke and prod at nature with the tools of experiment , astronomers on their mountains simply observe her , in all her heavenly glory . |
| 7 | Many framework knitters were said in 1778 to work from 5 a.m to 10 p.m. in summer , but this was considered a departure from the more usual start at 6 a.m and finishing at dusk in the winter . |
| 8 | The failed short-list candidates are surrounded by increasing circles of other disappointed souls : to continue our horseracing imagery , the front-runners are followed by the minor placings , those who met the headhunter and talked at length about the opportunity , who were among the top ten , but not the top three or four . |
| 9 | As a result , the period begins at midnight on the named date , and expires at midnight of the last day in the period . |
| 10 | The person who had eavesdropped on the proposed intrigue performed Stratton 's job for him ; stole the jewel ; slid thereafter into the background ; and disposed at leisure of the superfluous pearls and the petty cash . |
| 11 | Mind you — - " she jerked her head in the direction of the Russell , which had recently returned from Plymouth and lay at anchor in the Pool , " 'E 's got a lot to answer for . |
| 12 | It is worthwhile to anticipate events a little and quote at length from the Governors ' Statement of that same month : |
| 13 | Currie give a debut to the 18-year-old Forrester stand-off , John Morrison , said to be an outstanding prospect , for their home match against Kilmarnock , while Duncan Macrae has recovered from a broken leg and reappears at full-back in the Boroughmuir XV away to West Hartlepool . |
| 14 | Much crying and straining at stool in the infant . |
| 15 | She took the breast well and slept at night without the drops of laudanum with which the nurse had dosed the infant Benjamin when he could not sleep . |
| 16 | And yet if you want properly to hear a Prom there is often little alternative but to stay at home with the radio transmission , so wretched are the acoustics in large areas of the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 17 | but stayed at home by the fireside |
| 18 | But modern boxing has a more sensitive audience , one that never goes to the arena but watches at home on the television . |
| 19 | England A ( 456–7 dec ) drew with Essex ( 317–8 dec ) A RARE century from Derek Pringle provided some spice at the very death in an opening to the season which had been all but strangled at birth by the bad weather . |
| 20 | However , when looking at speech at the level of the tone-unit we are not usually interested in this ; a much more important difference here is that between tonic stress ( marked by underlining the tonic syllable and placing before it one of the five tone-marks ) and non-tonic stressed syllables ( marked or in the head or in the tail ) . |
| 21 | Prima facie the term will be treated as beginning at midnight between the named date and the day following it ( Meggeson v Groves [ 1917 ] 1 Ch 158 ) . |