Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] at [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Aunt Lucy came to live at Howfield in order to look after Ramsey 's father and the family after Agnes Ramsey was killed . |
| 2 | It also began to look at proposals for MA courses , and at its November 1966 meeting , for example , it expressed the view that a proposed MA in Business Administration at Portsmouth College of Technology did not meet the CNAA 's criterion that the content should be substantially postgraduate in character : too much of it was introductory work , insufficiently rooted in the basic disciplines . |
| 3 | ‘ There was no inheritance in the case , you see , for Robert Beckenham was only a third son and chose to live at home in idleness rather than follow a profession . ’ |
| 4 | He refused to accept a travellers ' site at Loch Laggan as a fixed address for Frost , a first offender , who offered to pay at £10 per fortnight . |
| 5 | Then , gripping her lips firmly together , because whatever else she said was bound to be wrong , Ellie continued to stare at Phena in horror and worry . |
| 6 | The fog exacerbated his emphysema : he was short of breath , found it difficult to walk very far , and had to stay at home in seclusion . |