Example sentences of "have learned [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | By around two to four months the baby has learned to smile at strangers ( whether in pleasure or as a learned signal of interaction , or as a primitive placatory gesture , is debatable ) . |
| 2 | Today the company has moved on , trying to cohabit with such bedfellows as hundreds of small software firms , or investing in specialist ‘ business partners ’ IBM has learned to cooperate at least a little , and even sold off a few businesses — but the company continues to have an exceptionally coherent set of beliefs and behaviour patterns . |
| 3 | The central point of the book is a reflection of a non-technical ‘ wider ecumenism ’ , ‘ a juxtapositioning of mental shapes or ideas through which the poet had learned to look at life , his own and that reflected by others . ’ |
| 4 | He was an only child who had learned to read at three and quickly began giving characters to the numbers in arithmetic because he had no one to play with . |
| 5 | You can be truly successful this year , especially if you have learned to diversify at the same time as pursuing the well-beaten track to your objectives . |
| 6 | And even in this conformity the detectives are moving away from the uniform policeman 's concept of correct dress , for they are wearing ‘ civvy ’ clothing like those despised outsiders they have learned to keep at a distance . |