Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I learnt to sit formally at table and to eat three inedible courses of stodge with an incomprehensible array of surplus cutlery ; to whisper when I spoke as I was considered ‘ too loud ’ ; and to stop gesturing with my hands or to touch in conversation , as people inevitably shrank away from me . |
| 2 | It 's been difficult in = thing that you had to go home at night and keep watering like , your not doing anything else but watering , watering |
| 3 | At the beginning of 1991 , we decided to look again at Cost of Quality and how it was being used in C&P . |
| 4 | He seemed to do better at Arse and had a good season when we won the league . |
| 5 | He liked to work away at Latin or Greek , or to pick books of history or biography off the shelves . |
| 6 | Tom himself said it was because he had to work hard at school at subjects other than music , he could not devote himself wholeheartedly to the flute . |