Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he tries to change him into a Lillie or Hadlee , the boy might lose his greatest asset — to bowl successfully at pace . |
| 2 | The big western lakes , Conn , Corrib and Mask , are producing little at present and the Galway Weir produced only five salmon for the week in spite of excellent conditions for fly fishing . |
| 3 | The Bradfords entertained lavishly at Christmas . |
| 4 | For example , he has a waking and sleeping pattern that follows closely the one regarded as normal — sleeps most at night , feeds at four regular intervals during the day even though he is so young . |
| 5 | I do n't eat much at lunch-time myself but we must think of the Captain here who 's doing all the work … perhaps a string or two of those wild boar sausages — do you think they 're local ? |
| 6 | The first essentials for any cloud flying in large cumulus are that the glider must be properly equipped for serious flying , and the pilot must be competent and experienced enough at instrument flying to be able to regain control from any attitude without having to use the airbrakes . |
| 7 | Then LWT , whose galaxy of creative talent in 1967 just ‘ had to have its chance , whatever the repercussions , ’ as the ITA chairman , Lord Hill , put it ( Sendall , 1983 , p. 364 ) , failed disastrously at company management . |
| 8 | Equal volumes of bacterial and cell suspensions were mixed and shaken gently at room temperature for 30 minutes . |
| 9 | In such circumstances national courts of all levels remain entirely at liberty to bring a matter before the European Court if they consider it appropriate to do so . |
| 10 | I used the PCW version and found little at fault , except , that the limitations imposed upon it by the hardware made it slow to operate . |
| 11 | However , these or suckled calves can be vaccinated successfully at grass provided the vaccine is given in spring or early summer , that is , prior to encountering a significant larval challenge . |
| 12 | But what a difference a few days can make Saints crashed badly at home to Bradford Northern on the day when Doug Laughton 's men were giving arguably their best performance of the season in running up a convincing score against his old club Widnes . |
| 13 | Their eyesight is remarkable in poor light , so they hunt mostly at dawn and dusk . |
| 14 | She was educated mostly at home , though there was a brief unhappy experience at a Swiss boarding-school , and in adolescence she attended the private classes of the Revd William Gaskell [ q.v. ] , the Gaskells being near neighbours of the Stewarts in Rusholme . |
| 15 | Though this section looks only at government regional policies and labour mobility policies , it is worth mentioning that these represent only a small proportion of government expenditure on aid to industry . |
| 16 | Mouse pups born in Dr Friedler 's laboratory weighed less at birth and failed to grow or mature as fast as those born of fathers treated ( for the sake of comparison ) with either salt-water injections or compressed air . |
| 17 | These difficulties occurred only at home . |
| 18 | ‘ People have to come together at community level , to begin to talk and break down barriers . |
| 19 | The point has a particular relevance to the work of those who believe , like Foucault , following Nietzsche , that truth is a mere rhetorical device , employed in the interests of oppression , and say so at length . |
| 20 | We climbed far enough to find some specimens of the Mount Cook lily ( which is n't a lily at all , but a giant buttercup found only at altitude in this part of the South Island ) , and while the others rested I went across to investigate a steep track up a snow-filled gully . |
| 21 | To work merely at sentence level is to ignore crucially important aspects of text . |
| 22 | It was n't until her mother had issued those ridiculous and unnecessary warnings over driving alone at night that the idiocy of her own attitude had dawned on her . |
| 23 | The local office lines are grouped together at time division multiplexors connected to the data switch by twisted pairs . |
| 24 | These are the women who cry alone at night . |
| 25 | The pace was fast ; they stopped only at way stations which were situated every hundred verst or so to change st'lyan . |
| 26 | Dr Groome fiddled with the slab and Ella Raines came up , walking alone at night along a deserted railroad platform . |
| 27 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 28 | Doubt hangs over future of girl found alone at home |
| 29 | He and his Chief Wife dined alone at sunset , then he went to his office to work . |
| 30 | However , by far the most common response from all parts of the country was ‘ they could relax and concentrate better at night as their minds would not be thinking about the jobs they should be doing ’ , . |