Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says that it 's good to have somewhere to swim at lunchtimes . |
| 2 | Not only did he go on to lose at Waterloo : he suffered the final indignity of living and dying in a house called The Briars on St Helena , far down in the South Atlantic . |
| 3 | Obviously there are certain key factors to any sort of reasonable living space : walls and ceiling will have to be decorated along with all the woodwork ; windows and floors have to be treated in some way ; there must be light both to see by and to enhance the space ; there should be something to sit on and probably to eat from and almost certainly somewhere to work at times . |
| 4 | There can not be many lyric-writers who have begun their careers in the theatre by dancing Scheherazade in a strip-club in Los Angeles , gone on to appear at La Scala , Milan and then to play the title-role in Mother Company . |
| 5 | He went on to work at Birmingham , Bristol and Luton , as he progressed to other jobs within the operations department . |
| 6 | A local dental surgeon , Mr. Williams , was kind enough to attend at Dr. Prior 's request and he administered the gas gratuitously . |
| 7 | Throughout the land radio listeners could sense the lethal pace of Lindwall or Miller running in to bowl at Hutton , Washbrook or Compton in that rejoicing , post-war Ashes summer of 1948 . |
| 8 | When we finish , there are the people who come in to work at night . |
| 9 | It is merely to stand at variance with a long established tradition — a long established system of beliefs based ultimately on someone 's speculative interpretation . |
| 10 | A subject only able to see the single large letters at the top of the chart ( the 6/60 line ) would be able only to discriminate at 6m what the normally sighted person would see clearly at 60m . |
| 11 | However , the feminist critique should not encourage us only to look at girls . |
| 12 | You had only to look at holiday romances , she told herself , or shipboard affairs , to know that unfamiliar surroundings and propinquity acted as a hothouse , a forcing ground for unrealistic situations . |
| 13 | The inbuilt bias towards the big clubs has undoubtedly fuelled inflation in the transfer market ; one has only to look at Manchester United , who raked in nearly £1m from television last season . |
| 14 | She had only to look at Mrs Jebeau 's face to see it ; in fact , she could smell trouble in that direction . |
| 15 | You have only to look at Northampton to see the truth of this . |
| 16 | But he had needed only to look at Lorrimer 's face during the past month to know that . |
| 17 | ‘ Mind if I bring Bill Birkett along to look at Heirloom Crag ? ’ asked Rick Graham . |
| 18 | They take groups of school children in to look at experiments and techniques that are far too complicated perhaps , expensive perhaps , or even dangerous , to run in a school — like X-ray crystallography and infra-red spectrometry . |
| 19 | Eyes downcast , she ate without speaking , pausing only to smile at Vi . |
| 20 | She did turn her head then , but only to smile at David and marvel that he could look so happy ; but even as she watched his face seemed to grow colder and he nodded . |
| 21 | A camera on the far side moved , swung in to stare at Michael Bridges , sitting on George 's right , and came so close that George could see inside its Cyclops eye to the movement of the focusing mechanism . |
| 22 | Gabby , who , with her husband , was preparing to run a guest house and had quite enough to do at home , cooked and brought down to the new house a hearty and beautifully cooked meal each evening , and filthy and exhausted the three of us would wolf it down . |
| 23 | with Grace but , I 'm also down to read at St.Joseph 's and Father tells me there wo n't be two masses on Ash Wednesday . |
| 24 | SINCE January , when invitations for the Masters were received , those lucky and talented enough to compete at Augusta will have been fine-tuning their games to suit one of the world 's most demanding courses . |
| 25 | They went straight in to land at Luqa , but as they approached saw bombs bursting on the runway — they had arrived in the middle of a raid ! |
| 26 | A sample : We 're coming in to land at Speke My legs are feeling very weak We 've just returned from Barcelona And now I 'm going for a sauna Toshack is of Scottish descent , and there is certainly a bit of McGonagall in there , though not the best bit . |
| 27 | Oxford in the 1920s … a Sopwith Camel flies in to land at Port Meadow aerodrome . |
| 28 | A PASSENGER jet coming in to land at Heathrow is silhouetted against a full moon shining bright . |
| 29 | The Cessna 182 was coming in to land at High Wycombe , Bucks , when it crashed in nearby Hambleden . |
| 30 | On 7 February 1968 he failed to meet a friend , who was worried enough to call at Adams 's house on El Roble in Beverly Hills to find out what had happened to him . |