Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [to-vb] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men were taken into a tent and allowed to look at a group of objects for a short period after which they had to recall every detail they had observed . |
| 2 | So I left , and went to stay at a friend 's . |
| 3 | She had been constructed in Hampshire before the Second World War by craftsmen who had taken pride in their work , but fibreglass had made wooden boats redundant and Masquerade had been laid up and left to rot at a boatyard on the River Exe . |
| 4 | So , an ‘ epidemic ’ of heroin use occurs when incidence rises ( above the normal , endemic level of use ) and continues to rise at a rate higher than the outcidence rate . |
| 5 | But something did delay her ; she stopped and stood to stare at a marvel of nature , so strange as to suspend belief . |
| 6 | Peckle hardly moved but continued to peer at a document covered in strange cipher markings . |