Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] at the [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say they are looking forward to seeing him soon , and that he will be safely with them to sit down at the table and enjoy the feast of the next Thanksgiving dinner . |
| 2 | They assumed that pupils , mostly boys , of course , who were failing on the school reading scheme simply needed more and more opportunity to slog away at the phonics and sight vocabulary while under tight supervision . |
| 3 | The second stage may attempt to look afresh at the situation and to create new perspectives using lateral thinking and brain-storming . |
| 4 | We tend to look only at the beginning and end of a decision . |
| 5 | Henry Mayhew described how the costers preferred tasty cable-cord trousers , ‘ made to fit tightly at the knee and swell gradually until they reached the boot , which they nearly cover ’ . |
| 6 | To ensure a wider democratic representation at conferences urge the C E C to look seriously at the situation and report back next year . |
| 7 | To put it slightly differently , it is important to understand that the poverty of the Third World and the wealth of the West are the outcome of an interlinked process in which the rapid and massive growth in Western prosperity has occurred and continues to do so at the expense and underdevelopment of the Third World . |
| 8 | Their television colleagues were more patrician , only occasionally deigning to nod down at the page and scribble the time of an important section of Blanche 's statement . |
| 9 | All that was needed was for one kind of film to do well at the box-office and a new Hollywood format would be established . |
| 10 | In fact you might say that they ought to start back at the beginning and study politics and war because , looking at the world today , maybe there are a lot more useful things to study than art and architecture . |
| 11 | He had n't rung to make an appointment , better to turn up at the door and press the bell like any other cheapskate private detective . |
| 12 | It is vitally important that the engineer should be given as much information as possible and should not be merely invited to turn up at the site and work things out alone . |
| 13 | When I think of my past blunders here , I want to turn round at the airport and catch the next plane home . |
| 14 | ‘ Did you honestly expect me to stay home at the barn and carry on as if nothing had happened after you threw all those accusations at me ? |
| 15 | As a result , Labour thinking began to lay more stress on state control , on the need to take over at the centre and then to redistribute wealth and plan for the whole country . |
| 16 | If your battle plan is to charge headlong at the enemy and engage him as soon as possible chariots are ideal . |
| 17 | Provided he could use the motion , he might be able to rock away at the melancholy and eventually shift it off its fierce sticking point . |