Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking in a debate on the food question , J. R. Clynes , Minister of Food in the Coalition Government , used the apparent progress on the international front to preach patience at home : |
| 2 | I made camp at sunset , and then cooked , wrote letters , and did my chores after dark . |
| 3 | Drama provides another major resource in overcoming passivity , in stimulating children to become actively involved in thinking about language , and in helping them to enjoy literature at school so that they will continue to read and to act and to attend theatrical performances for the rest of their lives . |
| 4 | Labour would throw money at industry . |
| 5 | Revolutionary fervour produced discontent at home , and there were frequent uprisings and riots . |
| 6 | Nun decided that Nut , the sky goddess , in the shape of a cow , should take Re and carry him above the earth , although this meant that he was seen only in the day and the earth became dark at night . |
| 7 | The children must have found the silence or edifying talk at table somewhat tedious , as also the prohibitions on all dancing , dicing and wrestling . |
| 8 | A jury decided Pryse-Jones was unfit to stand trial at court because of his mental illness . |
| 9 | Me being at work causes friction at home . |
| 10 | Scattered all over his territories were 738,000 Japanese ; in theory a defeated army but in most cases still armed and either potentially dangerous or the only organized force capable of keeping chaos at bay . |
| 11 | You need a broad level of climbing experience at home and abroad at E1 standard — the first level of extreme climbing . |
| 12 | Only a single nonamer peptide in the four pre-erythrocytic antigens , ls2 , has proline at position 2 and tyrosine at position 9 . |
| 13 | Brown 's was already more than half full , but Bridget and Loretta were able to find a table in a relatively uncrowded corner where an old-fashioned ceiling fan was doing an effective job in keeping stuffiness at bay . |
| 14 | Unfortunately genital carriage of group B streptococcus is unstable , so a swab taken during pregnancy does not necessarily predict carriage at delivery . |
| 15 | Again whilst saying the sun has charm at dawn , and is fine at noon , it is ‘ often better at about three and is … frequently exquisitely beautiful on the approach of evening . ’ |
| 16 | They may have a medical problem which the doctor can help with , but the doctor can also help them to find help at home . |
| 17 | The night-duty man had rung Yashkin at home . |
| 18 | Ellen and I worked hard that week and , on the Saturday , as though to commiserate with ourselves on this being our last day alone together , we stopped work at midday and took a bus to Mama Sipcott 's Café on the beach where we ate lobster and drank too much of Mama 's sticky-sweet white wine . |
| 19 | Equally understandably , seasonal workers are not entitled to paid time off during their temporary employment since they are employed to Provide manpower at peak periods . |
| 20 | To reclaim or recycle waste at source . |
| 21 | If she If she has room at home . |
| 22 | But d-i-y treatment will go a long way towards keeping rot at bay , and you should be prepared to give freshly exposed cut surfaces of both cladding and battens an extra coat of preservative during installation for extra protection . |
| 23 | enlargement of same showing destruction of much of the surface of the enamel ( ×94 ) ; J. shrew premolars from tawny owl assemblage showing digestion from the base of the teeth along the enamel-dentine junction ( ×10 ) ; K. enlargement of same ( ×40 ) ; L. enlargement of edge of digested enamel showing the stepped transition from surface etched enamel at top left to dentine at bottom middle-right ( ×188 ) . |
| 24 | Keeping candidiasis at bay |
| 25 | say upsidaisy at dawn . |
| 26 | But the convention only covers pollution at sea , whereas most coastal pollution arises inland , from industrial discharges , untreated sewage , fertiliser run-off and erosion . |
| 27 | Compare them with a tanker full of chemicals which are corrosive , taint water at minute levels and kill living organisms at low doses : PCBs are n't like that . |
| 28 | Jason and I made a pact that we would n't discuss hairdressing at home unless we had to and we think that is even more important now that we have the baby . |
| 29 | They will study full time for the SCOTVEC National Certificate in Industrial Measurement and Process Control at college in Edinburgh . |
| 30 | It was left to her brothers to pass comment at lunch the following day . |