Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [to-vb] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her routine was to rise at a quarter past seven , bath , take a light breakfast and catch an omnibus into the City . |
| 2 | The Liverpool keeper 's one big mistake was to flap at a Wallace cross , allowing Cantona to head into a empty net and give Leeds a 4-2 advantage with a couple of minutes left . |
| 3 | Part of the art of angling is to look at a stretch of water , to analyse the clues of current , depth and cover and to decide , for example , where the roach are likely to lie or where the barbel may be shoaled up . |
| 4 | To get one , the best course is to ask at a gunshop , or to advertise . |
| 5 | Theirs are the more menial chores in Hell — the fetching and carrying of water , for instance — and their reward is to suckle at a witch 's nipples . |